On Wednesday (Feb 27) the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in ExxonMobil‘s appeal of its punitive damage award from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill case. If the court doesn’t stop it, a large wave of money will hit Alaska when the punitive damage award comes through. What will happen then? Our guests are preparing to document the social impacts when and if the money arrives.This week’s Talk of Alaska is your chance to talk about the oil spill as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the appeal and we look back on what’s happened in the nearly 19 years since the spill.
HOST: Steve Heimel, APRN
GUESTS:
- Dr. Duane A. Gill, Professor of Sociology, Mississippi State University
- Liesel A. Ritchie, sociologist, University of Colorado Natural Hazards Center
- Live callers statewide
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LINKS:
- U.S. Supreme Court Docket 07-219
- Oiled Regions of Alaska Foundation
- ABA: Supreme Court Preview – Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, Docket No. 07-219
- Coping With Technological Disasters: A User Friendly Guidebook (PDF, 216KB)
RELATED ARTICLES:
- Talk of Alaska: Exxon Valdez “The Whole Truth” Campaign (19 Feb 2008)
- State files brief supporting Exxon Valdez plaintiffs (29 Jan 2008)
- Stevens, Murkowski and Young submit Exxon Valdez amicus brief (28 Jan 2008)
- Alaska Congressional delegation files brief in support of Exxon Valdez plaintiffs (25 Jan 2008)
- Exxon Valdez plaintiffs file last brief before Supreme Court oral arguments (23 Jan 2008)
- Amicus brief filed in Exxon Valdez case (21 Jan 2008)
- Legislature files an amicus brief on Exxon Valdez damage case (7 Jan 2008)
- Justice Alito recuses himself from Exxon Valdez ruling (27 Dec 2007)
- New law helps Exxon Valdez spill plaintiffs (14 Dec 2007)
- Legislature toys with Exxon-Valdez element in oil-tax rewrite (5 Nov 2007)
- “Amiable Nancy” may play central role in Supreme Court ruling on Exxon-Valdez (5 Nov 2007)
- Supreme Court takes up Exxon Valdez reopener (29 Oct 2007)
LIVE Broadcast: Tuesday, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. on APRN stations statewide
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