Supreme Court justice(s) has close ties to BP's lawyers .

[deminks]

http://www.wwltv.com/news/eyewitness/davidhammer/Supreme-Court-justice-has-close-ties-to-BPs-lawyers-261186651.html

NEW ORLEANS – Now that a block on all oil spill settlement payments to businesses has been lifted for the first time since December, some plaintiffs’ attorneys are concerned that a Supreme Court justice with close ties to BP’s lawyers might undo what they have gained.

Thousands of business claimants got what they had so desperately wanted this week when U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ordered Claims Administrator Patrick Juneau to start paying claims again.

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But at the same time, BP is also asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the halt on all business loss payments. That brings up persistent questions about the relationship of two Supreme Court justices to the law firm handling BP’s appeal.

Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito each has a son who works at Gibson Dunn, a large national firm renowned for its Supreme Court appeals practice. In fact, the firm brags on its website that it gets more than 30 percent of its appeals to the High Court heard, while the overall average is less than 1 percent.

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I know, laws are for the little people.