EXXON Asks Supreme Court To Review Federal Court's Ruling On 1989 Valdez Spill

Biggest story in Alaska today bound to be Exxon’s decision to take the punitive damage judgement they’ve been fighting for 13 years to the U.S. Supreme Court:

Exxon takes spill appeal to the Supreme Court
1989 OIL SPILL: Company asks the Supreme Court to review punitive damages.

By ELIZABETH BLUEMINK
ebluemink@adn.com

Published: August 22, 2007
Last Modified: August 22, 2007 at 04:28 AM

Exxon Mobil Corp. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal court's ruling that the company owes $2.5 billion in punitive damages for the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.

This is the energy giant's final attempt to overturn the judgment, which Exxon has been battling for more than a decade.

In May, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied Exxon's request for another hearing in the long-running civil case. The company has been appealing since 1994, when an Anchorage jury awarded $5 billion in punitive damages to the class-action plaintiffs, who claim economic harm from the spill of nearly 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs have said that roughly 20 percent of their clients have died during the lawsuit. The living plaintiffs include about 33,000 commercial fishermen, cannery workers, landowners, Natives, local governments and businesses.

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/9241259p-9156734c.html

I can.

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:grr: :grr:

the plaintiffs will be a mute point. Is there no end to the oil industry's greed?

I know that is a truly naive question, but they caused so much damage and destruction. Deal w/ it and move on!
:mad:

what about the environment that the plaintiffs live in. That's all better now, right? :sarcasm:

SCOTUS overturns this one, I think there are a few more individuals to add to the impeachment list. Bastards.

WHy was 2004 such an important election?
edit to add - I feel so sorry for Ginsberg.

opinion and have all of the Tucker Carlsons of the world bowing to his extraordinary intellect.