former Deputy Director, Federal Judicial Center
Visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution; former Deputy Director of the Federal Judicial Center, the research and education agency for the Federal Courts
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Russell Wheeler
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FROM Russell Wheeler
To the Point
The Oil Industry and the Government The Gulf oil spill is producing hundreds of lawsuits in several states, but federal judges are bowing out because of investments in the oil industry. Judge Martin Feldman, who threw out the President's six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling on Tuesday, recently held stock in Transocean and Halliburton.
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