More collusion between "ACTIVIST REPUBLICAN FEDERAL JUDGES" and the "BIG OIL" corporate owners of the REPUBLICAN PARTY APPARATUS AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IN PARTICULAR!
Is this not within the compass of "HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS" let alone grand theft and fraud?
Where, pray tell, are the "guardians of CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW" supposedly residing in the US Dept of Justice, under the "honest and dedicated leadership" of AL Gonzales and his band of "non-partisan" gang of US Prosecuting Attorneys?

Exxon/Mobil boasts the highest profits for any corporation in the history of the world, yet they can't bring themselves to pay punitive damages for defiling the environment. They would rather defile the system of justice. When you have that kind of money, you have that kind of influence. That is the way it is in America during GW. The new Golden Rule is "for those with the gold (oil), there are no rules."
I would be willing to be that EXXON never pays the punitive damages, no matter how much they get reduced to.

I personally wouldnb't trust any comments from George Mason when it comes to judges and the right wing. Legal doesn't mean ethical. When a large corporation gives out large sums of money to politicians or organizations and tell you its only a donation you just know it's bull. These people think the past is past and it has never happened. They are going to do it anyway but what bothers me most is when they expect me to believe it.

As an Alaskan and an Exxon Valdez plaintiff, I have always know Andy Kleinfeld to be a petty, vain little man.

This latest revelation does not surprise me at all. He should be tossed from the court, and the appeal should be heard by an IMPARTIAL panel.

I hate to say I am not surprised, but....they have gotten what they have paid for these many years.

The LEC at George Mason University lists 115 donor, including Fedex, Abbott Labs and even the evil Exxon. Being associated with a Law Educational Center at a prestigious Law School is hardly a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

This is a hit piece, pure and simple. Guilt by association, without context.

Nature did most of the work in cleaning up the Exxon Valdez spill. Exxon has already paid over $3.5 billion. Punitive damages on top of spill cleanup costs are nothing other than anti-corporate hatred.

"The lessons in Alaska were sobering. Mr. Shigenaka found that in a crude oil spill, doing almost nothing -- helping nature break up and disperse the oil by itself -- may be more effective and possibly less harmful."

David Hinz:

"Exxon has already paid over $3.5 billion. Punitive damages on top of spill cleanup costs are nothing other than anti-corporate hatred."

Punitive damages are intended to change future behavior. Punitive damages will force them to consider responsibility before profit as they should have done by using double hulled tankers long before this accident. There was huge foul and huge harm ergo huge penalties. You make the 3.5 billion sound like a charitable donation to the cause.

"Nature did most of the work in cleaning up the Exxon Valdez spill."

Completely irrelevant. In the twenty years it has taken man and nature to clean this mess, many lives and livelihoods were injured or destroyed. Nature does most of the work in your recovery if my negligence breaks your legs. What is your point? I'm not responsible? If the money only marginally accelerated the recovery, too bad for Exxon.

nature did all the work,you must be kidding.the earth is flat.

The oil companies need to be regulated and made state owned like what Chavez did? The judicial/political system in the US is corrupt and all these corrupt judges/senators need to be put in jail for serving their own interest. Rise up America. When will we be truly free?

Judge Kleinfeld should be impeached, however, it would take an "honorable" Congress to do it.
I will be writing to my representative in Congress, (PA),
although, come to think of it, he's a subject of a federal invesigation.

A very good article revealing the true goals of the Left. It hit a real chord, judging from all the Leftist hate mail you got.

Look at the facts. If this THREE judge panel rules in favor of cancer research, then they had to be bought by the Armstrong Foundation. The LAWYER went to an event sponsered by a LAW SCHOOL. Wow throw him in jail! LAWYERS and a LAW SCHOOL!. Use your whole brain, not just the left side.