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Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471 (2008), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that the punitive damages awarded to the victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill should be reduced from $2.5 billion to $500 million. Justice David Souter wrote for the majority, joined in full by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas. Justice Samuel Alito took no part in the decision because he owns stock in ExxonMobil.

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  • Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471 (2008), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that the punitive damages awarded to the victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill should be reduced from $2.5 billion to $500 million. Justice David Souter wrote for the majority, joined in full by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas. Justice Samuel Alito took no part in the decision because he owns stock in ExxonMobil. (en)
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  • Exxon Shipping Company, et al. v. Grant Baker, et al. (en)
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  • Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas; Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer (en)
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  • Exxon Shipping Company, et al. v. Grant Baker, et al. (en)
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  • No more than a one-to-one ratio between compensatory and punitive damages is generally appropriate in maritime cases, absent intentional wrongdoing. Since Exxon has paid about $507 million to compensate more than 32,000 Alaska Natives, landowners, and commercial fishermen for the damage caused by the spill, it should have to pay no more than that amount in punitive damages. (en)
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