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Exxon Balks At Paying $488 Million In Interest On Valdez Spill Damages

McClatchy Newspapers | Erika Bolstad | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Environment, Exxon Valdez Interest, Exxon Valdez Damage, Exxon Valdex Payments, ExxonMobil Corporation, Exxon Valdez, Business News

ExxonMobil has balked at paying $488 million in interest on punitive damages that plaintiffs say it owes for its role in the 1989 Prince William Sound...

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Crime, Punishment and ExxonMobil

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Tort, Civil Justice, Lawsuits, Climate Change, Corporate Crime, Corporate Accountability, Global Warming, Exxon Valdez, Business News
Robert Weissman

The direct precedential value of the Exxon decision will cast an ominous shadow over state and federal court decisions on punitive damages for years to come.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 07.12.2008 | Media

Read More: Tar Sands, 2000 Election, Solar Moratorium, Kbr, Bush White House, Antonin Scalia, North Pole, UN Probe Civilian Deaths, Al Gore, Iraqi Oil Ministry, Iraq War Funding, War on Science, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Global Warming, Exxon Valdez, Oregon, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

U.S. mayors resolve to avoid burning dirty tar sands oil, Bush signs $162B war spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, Afghanistan civilian death toll rises sharply, Scalia still blames Gore for the 2000 election debacle.

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Obama Needs to Play Offense on the Supreme Court

Doug Kendall | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Netroots, Guantanamo, Supreme Court, Gun Control, John McCain, Child Rape, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Exxon Valdez, Politics News
Doug Kendall

The Obama campaign has promised to play offense this fall. On the Supreme Court, they need to step up to the plate.

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Supreme Court Hands Exxon $2 Billion... and Progressives an Opening

Doug Kendall | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Lilly Ledbetter, Antonin Scalia, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Conservative Supreme Court Justices, Justice Stevens, Exxon Valdez, Politics News
Doug Kendall

At a time when gas prices and oil company profits are record highs, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken $2 billion from 32,000 Americans who lost their livelihood in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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Court Spares Exxon $2 Billion In Damages From Valdez Spill

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Exxon, Exxon Valdez, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Supreme Court Rules on Exxon, Supreme Court, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million, a deci...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Missing White House Emails, Iraq War, Samuel Alito Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Polar Bears, Iraq Contractors, Newt Gingrich, Dennis Kucinich Impeachment, Exxon Valdez, Torture, Afghanistan War, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Investigation confirms torture at U.S. bases in Afghanistan, Michael Reagan calls for murder of anti-war activists, Gingrich claims Supreme Court decision will "cost us a city" and $23 billion in lost Iraq funds.

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Chief Justice Roberts Defends ExxonMobil

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Exxon Valdez Spill, Exxon, Exxonmobil, Jeffrey Fisher, John Roberts, Exxon Valdez, Business News

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on how much money ExxonMobil should be forced to pay as damages for its Exxon Valdez oil spill 19 ye...

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14 Years Later, Exxon Still Has Not Paid For Valdez Oil Spill

Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Alaska, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Exxon Oil Spill, Exxon Valdez, Politics News

When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez...

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Oil In Troubled Waters

Harry Fuller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Polar Bears, Exxon Valdex Tanker Spill, Alaska, Bp, Natural Gas, Chukchi Sea, Oil, Dick Cheney, Exxon Valdez, Business News
Harry Fuller

Oil in troubled waters. Death to the polar bears?

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