New Orleans-A US federal appellate court panel Monday appeared skeptical that BP is suffering an unfair process to settle billions of dollars in claims stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In a one-hour session, a three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard BP's legal arguments seeking to reverse a lower-court ruling over its spill payouts, which it believes are spiral- ing out of control.
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