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Dustlawyer

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3. Judges impartial? Since when?
Sun Jul 24, 2016, 10:16 AM
Jul 2016

Some are and take their oaths seriously, some never were. Judges rule their courtrooms like dictators. They weld a lot of power and leverage and know it! Attorneys call Federal Judges God because they have all of the power and you better not even be perceived as anything but a faithful worshipper!

I don't believe the one over the BP litigation is impartial. When you allow BP to offer the buddies you appointed to the Plaintiff's Steering Committee a $700,000,000 "Common Benefit Fund", but only if they agree to a one-sided class action settlement and that settlement must survive to the end without being overturned in order to receive the money, you are compromised. He allowed this huge conflict of interest to exist and in fact did everything to protect the deal, including the judge sending letters to the clients advising them to do the opposite of what their attorneys have recommended without even letting the attorneys know that he was contacting their clients.

Sorry, I have to give this BP example as often as I can because the BP litigation has screwed over hundreds of thousands of victims of the BP oil spill. The average person has trouble understanding what the kind of money the tenth biggest corporation in the world has and can do with it. It is a power to do what they want anywhere in the world. And this is only one big corporation!

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