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Legal ping-pong over Alaska oil slick [1]

Washington: 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 almost no one could have predicted the incredible round of legal ping-pong that only this month lands at the Supreme Court. In the time span of the battle

Publication Date: 
03/03/2008
Indian Express (New Delhi) [2]
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Oil Pollution [3], Industrial Dispersal [4], Hazardous Waste [5], Supreme Court [6], N C America [7]
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