A review of federal judges’ financial disclosure reports for 2010 shows that 18 of 58 active and senior U.S. district judges on federal benches in Texas held energy-related investments last year.
Three of those judges held — or still hold — stock in BP, which operated the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig that exploded April 20, 2010, off the coast of Louisiana. A multitude of suits stem from the rig explosion, which killed 11 people and injured others.
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