United States Ninth Circuit

Government settlement of mass pollution claim under Clean Water Act does not bar punitive damages award for private parties also injured by pollution for state and common law claims.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/03/1999
• Decided 11/07/2001
• Published 11/07/2001

Judges

• KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, BROWNING and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John F. Daum,O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellant Exxon Corporation., David M. Heilbron (briefed), McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP, San Francisco, California, for appellant Exxon Shipping Company., Thomas M. Russo (briefed), Chalos & Brown, P.C., New York, New York, for appellant Joseph Hazelwood.


• For Appellees:
  
• David C. Tarshes (briefed), David W. Oesting, Stephen M. Rummage, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP, Anchorage, Alaska, for the appellees., Brian B. O'Neill (argued), Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, James vanR. Springer, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, DC, for the appellees.