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12 Sep 2007, 6:32 pm
The spill was huge — much larger than Exxon Valdez. [read post]
14 Mar 2014, 12:50 pm by Jim Walker
Let’s not wait for a cruise line to have an ‘Exxon Valdez moment' before we protect future passengers." [read post]
4 May 2010, 7:52 am by John Day
  Section 1004 of the Oil Pollution Act (OPA), passed into law in August 1990 after the Exxon Valdez incident, limits the liability of holders of leases or permits for offshore facilities to $75 million per spill, plus removal costs. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 1:41 pm by Daniel Shaviro
., Exxon is said to have learned from the Valdez spill). [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 11:46 am
  Recall that Sarah Palin said she did not agree with the Supreme Court’s decision to limit punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez case. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:00 pm
  US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stopped short of calling the BP oil spill "an unprecedented environmental disaster", but clearly, she and other Obama Administration officials are thinking that this problem could be the Nation's worst environmental calamity --- even dwarfing the Exxon Valdez spill. [read post]
30 Jul 2010, 1:21 pm by WIMS
  OPA established a solid framework for response that was missing during the Exxon Valdez spill. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 5:10 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Once the media storm blows over, they can do whatever they want; Exxon litigated the Valdez spill for twenty years. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 7:38 am
Are they holding the case pending the disposition of the Exxon Valdez case (which seems unlikely, since the excessiveness issue in that case arises under federal common law rather than the Due Process clause, as in Williams)? [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 8:09 am
Secures $500 Million more in Valdez Case: On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that plaintiffs who sued Exxon Mobil over the massive Valdez spill that occurred off the coast of Alaska in 1989 were entitled to approximately $500 million in interest on a $507.5 million punitive award. [read post]
27 Jul 2008, 3:27 pm
Williams, we posted that the writing was clearly on the wall to the effect that punitive damages had "peaked out" in American law.That conclusion was strongly supported in the US Supreme Court's recent decision in the Exxon Valdez punitive damages case, Exxon Shipping Co. v. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 3:17 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
It also builds on decades of research examining the impacts of crude oil on fish, which began after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 5:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That is, there was nothing there before the Exxon Valdez created the accident. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 2:41 am
Those who received income from the settlement of the Exxon Valdez oil spill lawsuit also apparently get a break: They get to treat their proceeds as income from the fishing industry for tax purposes. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:02 am by Rusty Shackleford
Legal wrangling from the Exxon-Valdez spill, which happened over 20 years ago, is still going on in federal court. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 6:39 am by Dr. Shezad Malik
Selna also designated counsel for the initial phase of the proceedings, naming three prominent trial lawyers and their firms with experience ranging from big tobacco litigation to the Enron Corp bankruptcy and claims arising from the Exxon Valdez oil spill. [read post]
11 May 2010, 7:31 am by South Florida Lawyers
(This means we will have surpassed the Exxon Valdez spill by mid-June if left unchecked.)The NYT, however, is reporting potentially higher numbers:BP told members of Congress the rate could be much, much higher: In a closed-door briefing for members of Congress, a senior BP executive conceded Tuesday that the ruptured oil well could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels a day of oil, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 8:34 pm
In fact, we were told that SBA utilized a somewhat similar process after the Exxon Valdez disaster to help small businesses impacted by that spill. [read post]
7 May 2010, 1:07 pm by Brian Huddleston
I’ve seen statements that the flow may have already exceeded the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez, and that at the current rate, the Valdez spill will be matched in a month or so.And as bad as all this sounds, some perspective is helpful. [read post]