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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (77736)	6/8/2010 2:48:47 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 149317

"That’s not to say that BP won’t fight a huge judgment against it. After the Exxon Valdez spill, Exxon fought a $5 billion fine for punitive damages for two decades. It won. The fine was cut down to $4 billion, then to $2.5 billion. The case eventually made it to the Supreme Court, which found that Exxon’s actions were “worse than negligent but less than malicious,” and vacated the fine. The judgment limited punitive damages to the compensatory damages, which were calculated as $507.5 million." I think of this more of a Bhopal level disaster. en.wikipedia.org India convicts 7 in 1984 Bhopal gas disaster latimes.com "Former executives of U.S. chemical giant Union Carbide's India unit are sentenced to two years. The first criminal convictions in the 26-year-old case are widely condemned as a mockery of justice." Worth fighting for a quarter century.