United States Ninth Circuit

In an action brought against Exxon by the operator of a seafood processing business in Alaska for business losses resulting from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, a district court's determination of the applicable prejudgment interest rates following settlement of the claims is reversed where the district court erred by not applying Alaska law to plaintiff's Alaska state law claim for prejudgment interest.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2007
• Decided 04/16/2007
• Published 04/16/2007

Judges

• GRABER, Circuit Judge:, Before SUSAN P. GRABER, RICHARD A. PAEZ, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael T. Schein, Sullivan & Thoreson, Seattle, WA;  John G. Young, Young de Normandie, Seattle, WA;  and Kevin P. Sullivan, Sullivan & Thoreson, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John F. Daum and Victor H. Jih, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees., Eric Fleisig-Greene, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the intervenor-appellee.