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Litigation

Aug. 20, 2015

Losers in BP trial home in on jury instructions

Jury instructions from the presiding judge late in the trial may be grounds for appeal, according to counsel representing Arco station owner plaintiffs.


By Gautham Thomas


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A verdict Friday in favor of BP against four Arco gas station owners over pricing
and allegedly faulty proprietary software may put on hold more than 600 similar cases,
pending a possible appeal over jury instructions. At issue during trial was the commercial
reasonableness of BP's wholesale gasoline pricing, which station owners are contr...

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