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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]
2 Oct 2008, 8:11 am
  They're handing out cash like candy, and there's none of it for us. [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]
12 Aug 2008, 3:05 pm
” According to the piece, the Exxon Valdez matter could ultimately prove costly to the plaintiffs’ lawyers. [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]
4 Jul 2008, 2:10 pm
Wall Street Journal reporter Russell Gold emailed us with the following question: "If the full $507.5 million is upheld by the lower court, where does the Exxon Valdez award rank among largest punitive damage awards upheld by appeals courts? [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 10:33 am
Supreme Court vacated the $2.5 billion punitive award in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case, finding it excessive. [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]
29 Feb 2008, 4:43 pm
A commentator on the recent Exxon Valdez argument in the U.S. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 1:51 pm
This may become a growing trend if the Supreme Court revisits this notion in the Exxon Valdez opinion. [read post]
24 Feb 2008, 11:00 am
We're not going to link to all of the many articles previewing the Exxon Valdez oral argument (coming up this Wednesday), but this one is worth mentioning. [read post]
27 Dec 2007, 2:34 pm
Readers found hundreds of self-serving edits and revisionist cuts by the likes of Diebold, Dow Chemical and ExxonMobil -- the latter tweaked the entry on the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill to whitewash the effect on Alaskan wildlife. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 11:33 am
“We’re disappointed that it â [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 6:32 pm
The spill was huge — much larger than Exxon Valdez. [read post]
12 Sep 2007, 1:21 am
Exxon Valdez Case Brings $2.5B Damages Fight to Supreme Court The National Law Journal The Exxon Valdez ran aground on an Alaskan reef nearly 20 years ago, but a related case has just reached the U.S. [read post]
19 Jul 2007, 12:11 pm
(Oil spill photo by the EPA) What happens when a half a trillion dollar company creates an environmental disaster worse than the Exxon Valdez accident, leaving the soil in a Brooklyn neighborhood seeped with between four and twenty feet of cancer-causing, benzene-concentrated oil? [read post]