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Court slashes damages award in Exxon oil spill
Jun 25 2008, AP

The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million, a decision that could have broader implications for limiting how much courts can order businesses to pay.The decision was hailed...

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This undated photo provided by Robert J. Kopchak shows Robert J. Kopchak standing on his fishing boat in Cordova, Alaska. Kopchak lost a quarter of his earnings when the lucrative Pacific herring fishery crashed in the 1990s after the Exxon Valdez oil...

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