108 ABA Journal Oil Spill articles.
As the tally of cases related to the still-gushing BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico tops 100, a Louisiana lawyer today urged a panel of federal judges to…
May 20, 2010 12:08 AM CDT
A new matter for Kirkland & Ellis is likely to brighten the economic outlook for the well-known Chicago-based corporate law firm.
It will be representing longtime client BP concerning the…
May 18, 2010 9:22 PM CDT
A federal law caps liability at $75 million for the indirect costs of an oil cleanup, but the limit could fall by the wayside if criminal charges are filed in…
May 13, 2010 1:57 PM CDT
Updated: A bill being debated this week in Louisiana to rein in law school clinics couldn’t come at a worse time, according to a blogger and a newspaper editorial.
The…
May 12, 2010 1:06 PM CDT
As Senate committee hearings began today on the oil rig explosion and resulting massive undersea well leak that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for three weeks, two…
May 11, 2010 11:20 PM CDT
Updated: Two commercial shrimpers have filed a federal lawsuit in Louisiana against the owner and operator of a oil rig that exploded and sank last week in the Gulf of…
Apr 30, 2010 5:33 PM CDT
Updated: The blowout of an oil well being dug by a British Petroleum rig in the Gulf of Mexico has resulted in a massive spill that could dwarf the environmental…
Apr 30, 2010 12:17 AM CDT
A footnote by Justice David H. Souter in the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning $2.5 billion in punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill is prompting…
Nov 25, 2008 2:54 PM CST
When Justice David H. Souter set a 1-1 ratio for punitive to compensatory damages in a majority opinion yesterday, he emphasized he could do so because the court was setting…
Jun 26, 2008 10:25 AM CDT
Justices sail into murky waters over damages from infamous disaster
Feb 1, 2008 3:57 PM CST
Federal prosecutors are investigating an oil spill last week in the San Francisco Bay, a move that could signal charges against crew members of the damaged ship that spilled 58,000…
Nov 13, 2007 2:42 PM CST
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has recused himself in Exxon Mobil’s appeal of a $2.5 billion punitive damages award, raising the possibility of a 4-4 split.
A tie vote in…
Oct 30, 2007 11:14 AM CDT
Litigation in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill case will come to an end if the U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear a punitive-damages appeal.
About 22 percent of the…
Jun 4, 2007 2:11 PM CDT
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