Ill-timed courtroom selfie leads news summary that includes law students at work, insurance-fraud allegations and a financial defense to a corporate takeover.

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The Supreme Court refused to review BP Plc’s $9.7 billion settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, turning away the company’s argument that hundreds of millions of dollars are going to businesses that weren’t harmed.

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The U.S. Supreme Court says BP must continue paying claims from a fund established after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill while the company appeals terms of its settlement with some businesses.

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BP PLC said Wednesday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether businesses must prove they were directly harmed by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill to collect payments from a 2012 settlement.

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Mobile-phone searches, junior-league politicians, greedy lawyers round out this week's Law Blog Roundup

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A federal judge on Wednesday delayed a lawsuit against a Texas lawyer accused by BP of falsely claiming to represent thousands of deckhands who lost money in the 2010 Gulf oil spill.

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NEW ORLEANS — Lawyers for a former BP engineer convicted of trying to obstruct a probe of the company’s 2010 Gulf oil spill plan to seek the disqualification of the federal judge who presided over their client’s trial last month. ...

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NEW ORLEANS — BP PLC has sued Texas lawyer Mikal Watts, saying he fraudulently claimed to represent 40,000 deckhands who lost money because of the 2010 oil spill. The lawsuit claims his filings inflated the estimate for a settlement fund ...

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NEW ORLEANS — For weeks after BP’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, people across the globe were captivated by a live video feed from underwater cameras that showed the company’s blown-out well belching plumes of black ...

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NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived BP’s claims that a judge’s interpretation of a settlement over its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could force the company to pay billions of dollars for bogus ...

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