Case Page: Exxon v. Baker
Kiobel Commentary: The door remains open to “foreign squared” cases
| Thursday, April 18th, 2013 4:27 pm
SCOTUSblog is pleased to have reactions from supporters of both sides to yesterday’s decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. This post is written by Oona A. Hathaway, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, and Carlton Forbes, a J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. Oona is the director [...]
Punitive damages award delayed
| Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 5:42 pm
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Wednesday put on hold a state court ruling that made a punitive damages award look much smaller by putting hundreds of thousands of dollars of attorneys’ fees on the other side of the legal ledger. The postponement in Icicle Seafoods, Inc. v. Clausen (application 11A1176) will stay in [...]
(Updated) Opinion analysis: The limited virtues of judicial modesty
| Thursday, January 12th, 2012 2:31 pm
Richard Epstein recorded a podcast on this decision for the Federalist Society. Listen to it here. On January 11, 2012, a unanimous Supreme Court issued its decision in Pacific Operators OffShore v. Valladolid, which addresses the interpretation of Section 1333(b) of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA). The text of the statute reads in [...]
New challenge on Gulf drilling
| Monday, July 5th, 2010 5:22 pm
A group of environmental organizations mounted a two-step challenge to a federal judge’s order that allows continued drilling of deepwater oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, site of a massive oil spill from a blown-out well. In a series of filings before the holiday weekend, the three organizations simultaneously sought the District Judge’s removal from [...]
Tuesday round-up
| Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 9:19 am
For all round-up coverage of Elena Kagan since her nomination, see our collection of past links on SCOTUSwiki. Staff picks are marked by asterisks. The Supreme Court beat was lightly trodden this weekend. The Chicago Tribune reports on what some regard as Elena Kagan's biggest professional setback"”her failure to be reappointed as a professor at [...]
Citizens United round-up: morning edition
| Thursday, January 21st, 2010 11:23 am
UPDATE, 1 p.m.: We just added the final links to this round-up. We will publish a fuller round-up later today in a separate post. This morning’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is breaking headlines. Below the jump, we cull initial coverage of the decision from some of the major news outlets and [...]
Academic Round-Up
| Sunday, July 5th, 2009 7:08 pm
Ted Eisenberg (Cornell University Law School), Michael Heise (Cornell University Law School), and Martin Wells (Cornell University Department of Social Statistics) have posted “Variability in Punitive Damages: An Empirical Assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker” on SSRN, see here. In this paper, the authors more or less reaffirm [...]
Exxon Valdez: One last fight
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 8:38 pm
Exxon Mobil Corp. and its oil tanker subsidiary notified lawyers for fishermen and others harmed by the massive Alaska oil spill 20 years ago that on Wednesday it will pay them $470,268,908, but returned to a federal court to continue a fight over another $54.5 million. The larger payment represents interest back to September 1996 [...]
Exxon Valdez: $500 million interest due
| Monday, June 15th, 2009 2:52 pm
In a ruling that the Ninth Circuit Court said it hoped would bring to an end the years-long legal battle over harms done by the massive oil spill from the supertanker Exxon Valdez in Alaskan waters in 1989, a three-judge Circuit panel on Monday found that the ship’s owner must pay about $500 million in [...]
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