BP Plc (BP/) must pay potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in claims after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt disputed payments stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In a one-sentence order issued today, the justices said they wouldn’t put a hold on lower court rulings that require the oil company to begin making the payments, part of a $9.2 billion accord. BP says some of the money would go to businesses whose losses were unrelated to the spill, including lawyers who lost their licenses and warehouses that burned down before the incident. The company says the process violates the Constitution and the federal rules that govern class action litigation. BP believes that failure to suspend “the payment of business economic loss claims will allow hundreds of millions of dollars to be irretrievably scattered to claimants whose losses were not plausibly caused by the Deepwater […]