Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Supreme Injustice
Via ThinkProgress: SCOTUS rewards Slixxon-Mobil for the 1989 Valdez oil spill by putting the $2.5 billion judgement in a Cuisinart® and hitting “frappé.”(The fine had already slashed in half by the “librul” Ninth Circuit.) The ruling in the case was 5-3 because Justice Alito did the honorable thing (for once) by recusing himself from the case (he owned stock in Slixxon-Mobil). Had Alito participated in the case, the ruling would’ve been 6-3.
I suppose that this is as good as we can expect from a bought and paid-for Supreme Court. If they thought they could get away with it, the five “justices” would’ve ruled that the citizens of Valdez, Alaska owed Slixxon punitive damages, not the other way around.
“Outlier punitive damage awards,” my ass!
