BP LAWYERS BERATED FOR SPACE-CHEATING BRIEF COLLEGE TRICK: Charles Ware Report

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A United States District Court judge, Carl Barbier, has "called-out" (berated) lawyers representing
oil giant BP  in the massive BP Gulf  Oil Spill litigation for using juvenile college-level short spacing tactics in an underhanded and sneaky effort to cheat the Court's 35-page brief limit.

The highly-paid BP legal team had slyly tried to reduce the line-spacing in a legal brief to sneak six(6) extra pages into the 35-page limit brief without technically exceeding the page limit.  The problem is that Federal Judge Barbier caught their trick and he was, to put it mildly, unimpressed.

     " Counsel's tactic would not be appropriate [even] for a college term paper",
        the Judge wrote in a negative ruling against BP . " It certainly is not appropriate."
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     " BP's counsel filed a brief that, at first blush, appeared just within the 35-page limit. A closer study reveals that BP's counsel abused the page limit by reducing the line spacing to slightly less than [the required] double-spaced," Judge Barbier wrote. " As a result, BP exceeded the (already enlarged) page limit by roughly six pages."

[ Charles Jerome Ware is a nationally known and respected trial headquartered in the Maryland and Washington, DC metropolitan area. He can be contacted at (410) 720-6129 or (410) 730-5016, or emailed at charlesjeromeware@msn.com. ]