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Monday, August 18, 2008
“Justices Cut Damages in Exxon Valdez Spill!”
MARC’S ARCHIVED RANT…….6/26/2008
“Justices Cut Damages in Exxon Valdez Spill!”
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Well same old story, with new pieces to the puzzle! I just got done saying we can’t trust the politicians or the oil companies that pull their strings! Let me spell it out briefly here. Money elect’s and pays for politicians, politicians pick Supreme Court justices, and the Supreme Court justices forgive the oil company’s debt! Here is the Times article…
Justices Cut Damages Award in Exxon Valdez Spill
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: June 26, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday reduced what had once been a $5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil to about $500 million. The ruling essentially concluded a legal saga that started when the Exxon Valdez, a supertanker, struck a reef and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.
$5 billion to $500 million = SOMEBODY GOT PAID OFF!
The decision may have broad implications for limits on punitive damages generally. Punitive damages, which are meant to punish and deter, are imposed on top of compensatory damages, which aim to make plaintiffs whole.
THIS IS HOW YOU BREAK THE SMALL BUISINESS MAN AND INSURE THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD! BY KILLING OFF OUR FOOD SUPPLY’S AND INSURING THAT THERE IS NO ACOUNTABILITY OF THE CORPORATIONS!
Justice David H. Souter, writing for the majority in the 5-to-3 decision, said a ratio between the two sorts of damages of no more than one-to-one was generally appropriate, at least in maritime cases. Since Exxon has paid about $507 million to compensate more than 32,000 Native Alaskans, landowners and commercial fishermen, Justice Souter said, it should have to pay no more than that amount in punitive damages.
That works out to $15,000 for each plaintiff for compensation and $15,000 more as punitive damages.
THIS IS A JOKE, NOT JUSTICE! THINK ABOUT IT; YOU HAVE A BUISINESS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED FOR GENERATIONS, AND ANOTHER BUISINESS BLOWS IT UP! DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN GET BACK WHAT YOUR FAMILY HAS PUT INTO IT WITH $30,000.00? YOUR CHILDREN NO LONGER HAVE THE SECURITY THAT YOUR PARENTS AND THEIR PARENTS BUILT UP FOR YEARS?
Justice John Paul Stevens, in a dissent, said he would have upheld the original jury award, which the federal appeals court in California had reduced to $2.5 billion.
“which is the way it should have been!”
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. owns Exxon stock and did not participate in the case. As a consequence, the court split 4 to 4 on a separate question in the case, that of whether Exxon may be held accountable for Mr. Hazelwood’s recklessness. The effect of the even split was to leave intact the ruling of the lower court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which said Exxon may be held responsible.
The remaining members of the court were unanimous in rejecting a third argument from Exxon, that the Clean Water Act’s penalties pre-empted the punitive award.
Three justices issued their own dissents from the majority’s ruling reducing the punitive award.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also dissenting, asked a series of pointed questions. For instance: “What ratios will the court set for defendants who acted maliciously or in pursuit of financial gain?” And: “On the next opportunity, will the court rule, definitively, that 1:1 is the ceiling due process requires in all of the states, and for all federal claims?”
“Some will murmur that this smacks too much of policy and too little of principle,” he wrote. But, he added, “history certainly is no support for the notion that judges cannot use numbers.”
I could go into the conflict of interest by a justice (oxymoron) owning stock in Exxon. Because anymore judges truly believe they are Gods! If you watch judges in real court rooms or on TV you’ll notice that they have serious power issues! We will go with the fact that the oil company’s will spend any amount of money to get out of doing what is right! I have always said “they don’t care about the environment or the public!”
I want to stay on task. The issue of the day is the smoke screen on fuel! The powers in this country control the money and the media, and they will keep pushing the gas scare and the agenda to allow offshore polluting! Everybody forgets that the president is a oil man, and everybody he has given jobs to, and special interest moneys to help support his interests!
Here is the skinny on this whole deal!
“YOU CAN’T TRUST THE POLITICIANS AND CORPORATIONS TO DO THE RIGHT THING!”
They will rape you, me and the environment to gain as much power and profit they can strangle out of us all! And the politicians are controlled by the greedy profiteering corporations that keep their puppets on a short leash! So what happened to “The American Way?
Don’t buy the party line and think for yourselves! Question the reality that the TV would have you believe! Don’t accept what you know is wrong! And stop talking about gas prices, and look intelligent and talk about the true cause of these issues and economic problems!
WAKE UP, WE NEED YOU!!!
MARC AND CHUCKY
Monday, August 18, 2008
“Justices Cut Damages in Exxon Valdez Spill!”
MARC’S ARCHIVED RANT…….6/26/2008
“Justices Cut Damages in Exxon Valdez Spill!”
http://bp0.blogger.com/_fkTCcW7wH2M/SGOu8iTViLI/AAAAAAAAAh4/OFlHpzS226A/s400/26exxon_190.jpg
Well same old story, with new pieces to the puzzle! I just got done saying we can’t trust the politicians or the oil companies that pull their strings! Let me spell it out briefly here. Money elect’s and pays for politicians, politicians pick Supreme Court justices, and the Supreme Court justices forgive the oil company’s debt! Here is the Times article…
Justices Cut Damages Award in Exxon Valdez Spill
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: June 26, 2008
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday reduced what had once been a $5 billion punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil to about $500 million. The ruling essentially concluded a legal saga that started when the Exxon Valdez, a supertanker, struck a reef and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska in 1989.
$5 billion to $500 million = SOMEBODY GOT PAID OFF!
The decision may have broad implications for limits on punitive damages generally. Punitive damages, which are meant to punish and deter, are imposed on top of compensatory damages, which aim to make plaintiffs whole.
THIS IS HOW YOU BREAK THE SMALL BUISINESS MAN AND INSURE THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD! BY KILLING OFF OUR FOOD SUPPLY’S AND INSURING THAT THERE IS NO ACOUNTABILITY OF THE CORPORATIONS!
Justice David H. Souter, writing for the majority in the 5-to-3 decision, said a ratio between the two sorts of damages of no more than one-to-one was generally appropriate, at least in maritime cases. Since Exxon has paid about $507 million to compensate more than 32,000 Native Alaskans, landowners and commercial fishermen, Justice Souter said, it should have to pay no more than that amount in punitive damages.
That works out to $15,000 for each plaintiff for compensation and $15,000 more as punitive damages.
THIS IS A JOKE, NOT JUSTICE! THINK ABOUT IT; YOU HAVE A BUISINESS THAT YOU HAVE OWNED FOR GENERATIONS, AND ANOTHER BUISINESS BLOWS IT UP! DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN GET BACK WHAT YOUR FAMILY HAS PUT INTO IT WITH $30,000.00? YOUR CHILDREN NO LONGER HAVE THE SECURITY THAT YOUR PARENTS AND THEIR PARENTS BUILT UP FOR YEARS?
Justice John Paul Stevens, in a dissent, said he would have upheld the original jury award, which the federal appeals court in California had reduced to $2.5 billion.
“which is the way it should have been!”
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. owns Exxon stock and did not participate in the case. As a consequence, the court split 4 to 4 on a separate question in the case, that of whether Exxon may be held accountable for Mr. Hazelwood’s recklessness. The effect of the even split was to leave intact the ruling of the lower court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which said Exxon may be held responsible.
The remaining members of the court were unanimous in rejecting a third argument from Exxon, that the Clean Water Act’s penalties pre-empted the punitive award.
Three justices issued their own dissents from the majority’s ruling reducing the punitive award.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also dissenting, asked a series of pointed questions. For instance: “What ratios will the court set for defendants who acted maliciously or in pursuit of financial gain?” And: “On the next opportunity, will the court rule, definitively, that 1:1 is the ceiling due process requires in all of the states, and for all federal claims?”
“Some will murmur that this smacks too much of policy and too little of principle,” he wrote. But, he added, “history certainly is no support for the notion that judges cannot use numbers.”
I could go into the conflict of interest by a justice (oxymoron) owning stock in Exxon. Because anymore judges truly believe they are Gods! If you watch judges in real court rooms or on TV you’ll notice that they have serious power issues! We will go with the fact that the oil company’s will spend any amount of money to get out of doing what is right! I have always said “they don’t care about the environment or the public!”
I want to stay on task. The issue of the day is the smoke screen on fuel! The powers in this country control the money and the media, and they will keep pushing the gas scare and the agenda to allow offshore polluting! Everybody forgets that the president is a oil man, and everybody he has given jobs to, and special interest moneys to help support his interests!
Here is the skinny on this whole deal!
“YOU CAN’T TRUST THE POLITICIANS AND CORPORATIONS TO DO THE RIGHT THING!”
They will rape you, me and the environment to gain as much power and profit they can strangle out of us all! And the politicians are controlled by the greedy profiteering corporations that keep their puppets on a short leash! So what happened to “The American Way?
Don’t buy the party line and think for yourselves! Question the reality that the TV would have you believe! Don’t accept what you know is wrong! And stop talking about gas prices, and look intelligent and talk about the true cause of these issues and economic problems!
WAKE UP, WE NEED YOU!!!
MARC AND CHUCKY
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