Breaking at 5.55 PM EDT: Exxon damages into the $1 to $3 billion range in Baltimore ground water ...

[Stinky The Clown]

.... contamination trial.

They have been found guilty, that's known

The damages are being added up as there are 160+ separate awards.






Edit to add link: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/06/30/md-jury-orders-exxon-to-pay-495m-in-gas-leak/

[n2doc]

1. Until the appeal, and Scalia and Boyz get ahold of the verdict n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I don't doubt that at all.

[valerief]

2. They will NEVER pay. NEVER. Why? Because they'll win an appeal or no one will make them. nt

[onethatcares]

3. oh yeah, they were so good about paying in the Exxon-Valdez spill

they just waited 35 years until everyone was dead and offered a free tank of gas to the villagers.

Prince William Sound is still not what it was.

[valerief]

5. Exactly! nt

[Agony]

6. Yup... Black Wave: The legacy of the Exxon Valdez

www.blackwavethefilm.com/ <---the story of how Exxon got away with it

http://www.rikiott.com/

And so Riki Ott became a marine biologist, but thought to make her living in commercial fishing - having gone to Alaska and fallen in love with its people and its landscape. But just four short years later, in 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled millions of gallons of oil in Prince William Sound. The local economy, communities, and thousands of miles of environment were devastated. And then ignored. Her two heroes of a past battle were now to be her guiding lights for the future. Since then, Riki has devoted her life to justice for everyday people, their livelihood, and the environment.

Some things never change?

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Riki and Rick Steiner are heroes

from that era, and both spent a lot of time on the Gulf after last year's disaster.

[alarimer]

7. They'll delay for years just like with that oil spill. n/t

[bvar22]

8. WOW.

Exxon is really going to need their taxpayer subsidies now.
Congress will probably have to give them even more.

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. I can hardly wait to pay for it at the pump.

[progressoid]

10. Actual cost to them is more like 1 to 2 million.

mostly in legal fees.

I'd be shocked if they ever pay that out.

[ej510]

11. Yep they aren't worried they have their hired help on the US Supreme Court.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Speaking from Alaskan experience,

good luck on collecting any of that.

Original jury award in the EXXON VALDEZ case? $5 billion.

Final payout after the Supreme Court was done with it? $500 million.

[xchrom]

14. Cost of doing business for them. Nt

[somone]

15. Big Business pretty much enjoys sovereign immunity in the U.S.

courtesy of the ruling class