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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (254116)	6/14/2010 5:20:30 PM
From: pstuartb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

I think the Exxon thing was over punitive damages, not compensatory. That's right. The original jury verdict in the federal court case included a punitive damage award of five billion dollars on top of an actual damage award of a little under three hundred million. I was in the court room when the trial judge read the jury's verdict. He said "Five BILLION dollars," with a big emphasis on the "B." Exxon spent over a decade on appeal getting the punitive damage award reduced.