For the third time since an Alaska jury hit Exxon with $5 billion in punitive damages in 1994, a 9th Circuit panel is facing the question of whether that award is appropriate. The class action by those who suffered economic damage from the spill has bounced repeatedly between the 9th Circuit and the Alaska courtroom of Judge H. Russel Holland, a result of Holland's reluctance to significantly lower the award. It's also due to the changing Supreme Court guidelines on how to award punitive damages.
January 31, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The dozens of Alaska fishermen sardined into a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals courtroom Friday seemed to only reluctantly accept Judge Andrew Kleinfeld’s statement that the court views “torturing and killing large numbers of people” as “more reprehensible than putting a drunk in charge of a supertanker.”
Brian O’Neill, the lawyer for more than 30,000 people economically affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, didn’t want to minimize the gas company’s mistake.
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