These portable USB Folding Speakers are great. appeals court and the jury’s original verdict of Blake Exxon(workers spill.) clean up from the $5 billion.īy Yereth R osen osen ( Front Front Row Washington ) Submitted at 1:34:14 PMĪnchorage, lead plaintiffcivil attorney in the private litigants’ case against Exxon and its successor,Īccordion Folding Speakers Submitted at 9:20:00 AM Highest in theCourt land, ruled in 2008 the U.S.court Supreme in favor of the people,” she writes Click here for more Reuters po li ti cal co ver ag e. “Exxon will know that we’re very disappointed in this ruling,” she said then. In an interview with Reuters, she said the state will tighten its oversight of the oil industry in response. The Supreme Court ordered that punitive damages be no more than $507.5 million, down from the $2.5 billionĭescribed it as a bitter disappointment to Alaskans rather than a victory. Have a damn thing to do with it, and she didn’t know what it was about.” While the Supreme Court in its Jdecision di d uphold the right of the plaintiffs to receive some punitive damages, it slashed the award dramatically. and, thanks to Alaska’s able “That is the most cockamamie attorneys arguing in front of the bull shi t,” said Dave Oest ing of As governor, I 32,000 plaintiffs that sued Exxon directed our attorney general to over damages from the worst oilwrite an amicus brief in the case, tanker spill in U.S. “It took years for Alaska to attorney for the approximately achieve victory. could recover some of their In the book, Palin claims to have losses.” helped the fishermen, Alaska But Palin’s claims of victory for Nat ive s and ot her in div idu als the plaintiffs and of playing a suing Exxon over spill damages role in achieving that victory are highly distorted, said the chief prevail in their legal case. ![]() At the time of the Supreme Gizmodo izmodo ) C o u r t r u l i n g, e v e n P a l i n By Jesus Diaz ( G It’s a disgrace to intellectual honesty to call 10 cents on the dollar a win for Alaskans,” said Ott, who has written a book about the spill and the failure of the justice system to address it. While the plaintiffs did manage ADVERTISEMENT t o s a l v a g e s o m e p u n i t i v e ( B BloggingStocks loggingStocks ) damages, the result was hardly a Submitted at 11:30:00 AM win, said Riki Ott, a scientist, environmental activist and longtime commercial fisherman from the Prince William Sound town of Cordova. Now, add Alaskan experts who were involved in the case over the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster saying her account over her role in the litigation is distorted for a in her book. Palin’s Exxon Valdez account draws guffawsĪNCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin’s new memoir, “Going Rogue,” already has been strongly criticized by John McCain’s aides aides for her account as a vice presidential candidate on the ticket with him in their unsuccessful 2008 race for the White House.
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