The judge overseeing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation has set up a separate docket to handle a growing list of objections to the proposed $7.8 billion settlement with BP PLC.

In a June 4 order, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans established a docket in the Eastern District of Louisiana “for the sole purpose of filing objections” to the settlement. More than 35 objections arrived on the first day, most of which had been lodged initially with the court last month.

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