Stockholding judge a bit of a folk hero

"HOUMA, La. -- Along the troubled waters of the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman has become a bit of a folk hero. He's the Ronald Reagan appointee who overturned the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil exploration, siding with oil service companies and the state of Louisiana, which argued that the moratorium -- coming on the heels of the gusher in the Gulf -- would seriously weaken the state's economy. Feldman owned stock in Exxon Mobil -- an oil company affected by the ban -- even as he considered the case, The Washington Post reported."

The Miami Herald June 27, 2010