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Exxon Oil Spill Case May Get Closure »

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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 oil spill, an appeal of the nation's largest punitive damages award was inevitable. But no one could have predicted the legal ping-pong that only this month lands at the Supreme Court.

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berkeley
Feb. 24, 2008, 12:57 a.m.
the last two years alone, exxon's profits were over 80 billion dollars. not sales, but profits.
they have probably paid their lawyers close to a billion, over 13 years, to delay payment to the people they harmed.
they deserve one of the lower circles of hell.
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tehranchik
Feb. 24, 2008, 1:11 p.m.
Why would Alaskan lives trump Exxon?
Twenty years since the spill---several witnesses passed. Oil still on the beaches.
They should all have to spend their billions to stay out of the depths of hell.