BP court move to halt Gulf payouts

[Jacob]

No Ide.  Worst case there would be massive fraud on top.

What do you mean? I mean they don't have any such issues in Venezuela... oh... 

[Warspite]

I heard there were some pretty spectacular claims getting through, but then again it is Louisiana. New Orleans made a lot more sense to me when a local told me to think of it as a "successful Caribbean city, not a failed American one."

[Berkut]

I don't think there'd be much perverse incentivization, because the voting public still wouldn't be too fond of oil wells exploding and causing giant spills.

I still don't understand why they didn't just tow the damn thing out of the environment.

[mongers]

I wonder if Churchill might be spinning in his grave ? 

[The Minsky Moment]

I hope the court tells them to go fuck themselves.

I don't think any of the parties has requested that relief.