Legal Opinion
Icicle Seafoods, Inc. v. Baker
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 12, 2000No. Nos. 96-36038, 97-35036, 97-35190PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal represents a small part of the massive litigation generated by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill into the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. The dispute we consider here arises from the punitive damages claims filed against Exxon2 by private parties injured by the spill and consolidated into a single mandatory class action in federal court. Aligned on one side in this appeal are Exxon and a group of plaintiff seafood processors known as the Seattle Seven. The Seattle Seven reached a $64 million settlement agreement with Exxon in the immediate aftermath…
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3Cited by9 opinions
- In Re: The Exxon Valdez Icicle Seafoods, Inc. Seven Seas Corporation Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc. Ocean Beauty Alaska, Inc. Wards Cove Packing Company, Inc. Alaska Boat Company North Pacific Processors Trident Seafoods Corporation North Coast Seafood Processors, Inc. Adf, Inc., Dba Aleutian Dragon Fisheries, and Exxon Shipping Company Exxon Corporation v. Grant Baker, as Representatives of the Mandatory Punitive Damages Class, Icicle Seafoods, Inc. Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc. Seven Seas Corporation Stellar Seafoods, Inc. Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc. Ocean Beauty Alaska, Inc. Wards Cove Packing Company, Inc. Alaska Boat Company North Pacific Processors Adf, Inc., Dba Aleutian Dragon Fisheries Trident Seafoods Corporation North Coast Seafood Processors, Inc. v. Alaska Sportfishing Assoc., Inc. Louie E. Alber Ahmet Artuner Grant C. Baker Jeffrey Bailey William Bennett Michael Wayne Bullock Robyne L. Butler Albert Ray Carroll Debra Lee, Inc. Dew Drop, Inc. Larry L. Dooley Mark Doumit Steve Doumit Douglas R. Jensen Dennis G. Johnson Donald P. Komkoff, Sr. Josef Kopecky Daniel Lowell Andrew E. Martusheff Carol Ann Maxwell Jacquelan Jill Maxwell Robert A. Maxwell, Sr. Michael McLenaghan Elenore E. McMullen Leslie R. Meredith the Native Village of Tatitlek Leonards. Ogle Steven T. Olsen August M. Pederson, Jr. Mary Lou Redmond Joseph David Stanton Jean A. Tisdall Darrell Wood, in Re: The Exxon Valdez Icicle Seafoods, Inc. Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc. Seven Seas Corporation Stellar Seafoods, Inc. Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc. Ocean Beauty Alaska, Inc. Wards Cove Packing Company, Inc. Alaska Boat Company North Pacific Processors Adf, Inc., Dba Aleutian Dragon Fisheries Trident Seafoods Corporation North Coast Seafood Processors, Inc. v. Grant Baker, as Representatives of the Mandatory Punitive Damages Class v. Exxon Corporation, Exxon Shipping CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2000
- In Re: The Exxon Valdez, Grant Baker Sea Hawk Seafoods, Inc. Cook Inlet Processors, Inc. Sagaya Corp. William McMurren Patrick L. McMurren William W. King George C. Norris Hunter Cranz No. 04-35182 Richard Feenstra Wilderness Sailing Safaris Seafood Sales, Inc. Rapid Systems Pacific Ltd. Nautilus Marine Enterprises, Inc. William Findlay Abbott, Jr. v. Exxon Mobile Corp Exxon Shipping Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2006
- In re Exxon ValdezCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2007
- Baker v. Exxon Mobile Corp.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2007
- Baker v. Exxon Mobile Corp.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2006
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