BP caught trying 'college' tricks In massive oil spill court case
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Huffington Post UK] By Asa Bennett - September 17, 2014 -
BP has been told off by a US judge for trying to squeeze six extra pages into a court filing by changing the line spacings, in a move that was branded "not be appropriate for a college term paper".
The oil giant was rebuked in a case concerning the oil spill that happened in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, after its lawyers were invited to submit a response of up to 35 pages, with the lines double spaced.
Judge Carl Barbier said that BP had "abused the page limit by reducing the line spacing to slightly less than double spaced" in order to squeeze in an extra six pages worth of text.
"The court should not have to waste its time policing such simple rules—particularly in a case as massive and complex as this," he wrote, warning that he would dismiss "any future briefs using similar tactics".
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