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Environmental Disaster Law
On March 23, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez pulled out of Valdez, Alaska, loaded with more than 56 million gallons oil. Captain Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the vessel, had spent the day drinking with crew members. He had consumed at least eight doubles vodka and blood alcohol level was .241 – more than six times the level permissible under the regulations of the Coast Guard. Third mate Gregory Cousins was of service beyond the limits specified by federal fatigue. Hazelwood, Cousins and the rest of the crew faced a night journey through ice in Prince William Sound. Hazelwood was obvious intoxication by alcohol on his breath, his slurred speech (caught on tape) and, above all, their actions while the boat is sound.
Passing fishing, Hazelwood took the Exxon Valdez outside established shipping lanes to avoid ice. He put the glass in automatic pilot, accelerating at Bligh Reef. Hazelwood then left the bridge in violation of federal regulations Pilotage. When passing underneath, Hazelwood gave vague instructions for Cousins inexperienced and tired. Within minutes, the tanker struck Bligh Reef, spilling 11 million gallons of oil, causing the largest oil spill the greatest environmental disaster in that time with experience in American history.
Following the grounding, lawsuits were filed in the State of Alaska and the Federal Court on behalf of approximately 45,000 individuals, businesses, Native corporations and local governments, seeking both compensatory and punitive damages. Most of the actions state court were ultimately removed to federal courts. The U.S. District Court carefully managed this litigation. Hundreds of orders entered, and Captain discovery came hundreds more. The plan of proof in four distinct phases of the test. The first three phases were to be tried before a jury only 12 (in instead of the usual six), with a unanimous verdict necessary. Of First Instance proceeded as follows:
1. Phase 1 began on May 9, 1994, five years after the spill, and ended on June 6, 1994. A week later, on June 13, 1994, the jury returned a verdict that both Exxon and Hazelwood had been unwise.
2. Phase II went to trial June 20, 1994, to determine the loss of harvest, the price of loss and allow claims valuation Prince William Sound, Kodiak, Cook Inlet, and Chignik salmon and herring fisheries. After deliberating for one month (July 11, 1994 hasta August 11, 1994), the jury awarded hundreds of millions in compensatory damages on these claims.
3. Phase III was tried between 22 August 1994 and August 29, 1994. In this phase, the jury was asked to decide whether Exxon and / or Hazelwood should be assessed punitive damages, and if so, in what quantity. The jury gave its verdict on September 16, 1994, granting punitive damages against Exxon in the amount of $ 5 billion and against and Hazelwood in the amount of $ 5,000.
Compensatory damage claims of all other applicants, not before deciding on the second phase of the trial, would be decided in Phase IV. Phase IV resolved before trial, in mid-1996.
Exxon and Hazelwood filed numerous post-trial motions. These movements resulted in the District Court emission of approximately 250 pages of sentences. Because of this delay, the trial final was not held until September 24, 1996. An Amended Judgement was ultimately issued on January 30, 1997.
Appeals and cross next ensued. The Ninth Circuit Court of Circuit Court of Appeals handed down its first decision on November 7, 2001. In essence, the court remanded the case to the trial judge, asking the judge to assess Netherlands the appropriate amount of punitive damages in light of the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, BMW and Cooper. (Note that none of these Supreme Court decisions existed at the time of the Exxon Valdez litigation proof.)
Ultimately, the judge reduced the jury Netherlands reluctantly awards of punitive damages $ 5 million to $ 4.5 billion. Judge Holland went on to note that the interests of the ruling itself, would be somewhere in the range of approximately $ 2.5 billion. Exxon appealed again.
On Friday, December 22, 2006, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision once again, reducing of punitive damages against Exxon from $ 4500000000 to $ 2.5 billion. Exxon immediately requested a rehearing en banc before the Ninth Circuit Court Appeals. On May 23, 2007, a rehearing was denied. That left Exxon with the option of a letter to the United States Supreme Court, which he did.
Incredibly, the October 29, 2007, the United States Supreme Court granted Exxon Writing and has agreed to decide the appropriateness of the sentence review. The case is likely to be held in the spring of 2008. A Justice Samuel Alito, recused himself due to property between $ 100,000 and $ 250,000 in Exxon stock.
It is clear that this is one of the oldest pieces of half disaster litigation environment in the country. Who would have imagined that, after one of the largest oil spills in the world, caused by a drunken captain clearly, more than 18 years would pass without a penny in punitive damages attention to those so seriously damaged by the spill.
From one point of view practical, many damaged by the spill, Exxon believes that it has prevailed because they have literally taken to the people. After half environmental disasters, many people were forced to declare bankruptcy. Since the spill, many others have died, leaving his heirs to seek reward. Even some most prominent of the lawyers involved in the dispute (Melvin M. Belli, Sr., Jerry Cohen, Leonard Ring, Richard Gerry, among others), have since died. Although bittersweet, perhaps this case is tragic end to a close.
From a legal perspective, there is much to say about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals December 22, 2006, opinion. It was the prize of $ 4.5 billion "grossly" excessive? After a defendant shows atrocious, reprehensible conduct sufficient to justify a punitive damages in the event of conduct that the defendant thereafter serve to reduce a jury punitive damages? Perhaps these questions are best answered through the analysis of other cases that the case of the Exxon Valdez. But if one agrees with the analysis of Judge Schroeder or not, surely everyone agrees with your comment, "It is time for this protracted litigation to end."
Unfortunately, to grant the States U.S. Supreme Court Exxon scripture, the saga is guaranteed to continue, and possibly with significant consequences for the victims of this avoidable tragedy.
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