Texaco has lost its bid to remove a Texas judge.
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The judge had upheld a jury’s record $11.1-billion damage judgment against the nation’s third-largest oil company. Second Administrative Judge Thomas Stovall Jr. said he rejected Texaco’s request to disqualify state District Judge Solomon Casseb Jr., who presided over the final eight weeks of the complex, 18-week trial. Stovall appointed Casseb to the case in October after the original trial judge, Anthony Farris, became ill.
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