Many Alaskans were miffed after the US Supreme Court this week decided to cut the amount of punitive damages Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil…
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million. The court ruled that victims of the worst oil spill in U.S. history may collect punitive …
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The relationship between Alaska and Exxon is getting rockier: The oil giant holds an effective veto over a popular pipeline proposal, and many Alaskans are bitter about a court decision to slash punitive damages from the Valdez spill.
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After nearly 20 years of legal wrangling, the Exxon Valdez oil spill court case has finally come to a bitter end. On June 25, 2008 the US Supreme Court knocked down punitive damages in a 5-3 ruling that could have far reaching affects …
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I just finished reading the decision in Exxon v. Baker and have a few preliminary thoughts. As most of our readers are aware from Byron’s post, the decision reconsidered the punitive damages in the case arising out of the Exxon…
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Institute for Energy Research has received $212000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. 2003 $37000 ExxonMobil Foundation Source: Institute for Energy Research website 5/04. 2004 $45000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving …
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The third case, with which it is harder to agree or disagree, is the end of the 19-year battle over damages from the Exxon Valdes oil spill. The Court lowered the punitive damages on Exxon from $2.5 billion to $500 million. …
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In its decision this week in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, the Supreme Court finally put its mark on the 19-year litigation over the grounding of the Exxon Valdez oil tanker in Prince William Sound , Alaska and the resulting oil spill of …
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Justice Souter took note of experimental research on jury decisionmaking done by Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and others, but then dismissed it for the purposes of the decision because Exxon had contributed funding for the research: …
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