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Restatement (Second) of Torts. Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, 554 U.S. 471 (2008), was a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that the punitive damages awarded to the victims of the Exxon Valdez oil spill should be reduced from $2.5 billion to $500 million. The case was appealed from the Ninth ...
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions. [1] The Court's remedy was to divide Standard Oil into several geographically ...
Delligatti v. United States. 23-825. Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force. June 3, 2024. (November 12, 2024) Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers, Inc. 23-900.
Yates said 8.8 billion barrels of oil were produced in southeast New Mexico since his grandfather first found the resource beneath Artesia. He said more than 3 billion of those barrels, about a ...
Robinson v. Shell Oil Company, 519 U.S. 337 (1997), is US labor law case in the United States Supreme Court in which the Court unanimously held that under federal law, U.S. employers must not engage in workplace discrimination such as writing bad job references, or otherwise retaliating against former employees as a punishment for filing job discrimination complaints.
After the 5th Circuit denied a stay pending appeal, the federal government sought a stay from the Supreme Court on July 8, 2022. On July 21, 2022, the court denied the application for stay in a 5–4 vote, but granted certiorari before judgment and set the case for argument in the December sitting. [2] Oral arguments were held on November 29, 2022.
Jun. 24—Lawyers for actor and producer Alec Baldwin have fought mightily — and perhaps, unsuccessfully — to keep him from having to stand trial in two weeks on an involuntary manslaughter ...
Texas v. Pennsylvania, 592 U.S. ___ (2020), was a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the administration of the 2020 presidential election in four other states, in which Joe Biden defeated incumbent Donald Trump . Filed by Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton on December 8, 2020, under the Supreme Court's original ...