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...provision does not apply and the damages are taxable," Breyer said. Justice Antonin Scalia dissented, saying "both types of damages are 'received on account of the personal injury.'" The decision came in the case of O'Gilvie vs. U.S., where the family of Betty O'Gilvie, who died of toxic shock syndrome, won $10 million in punitive damages from International Playtex, the maker of the tampons used by Mrs. O'Gilvie. Tuesday's decisions upheld rulings that forced the family to pay about $1.3 million in federal taxes on that amount...
...occurred, releasing an estimated 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into one of the world's biodiversity hot spots and the traditional home of thousands of Ecuadorian natives. Judith Kimerling, a Yale-educated attorney and the author of Amazon Crude, estimates that, even today, 4.3 million gallons of untreated toxic wastes are being released into the watershed every...
...ENVIRONMENT] Believes environment and human health can be protected with less intrusive and less expensive regulations. Worked to weaken endangered species and toxic pollution rules, and to slow implementation of drinking-water standards. Supported sell-off of federal lands for deficit reduction...
...Abnormalities like this get me worried," says David Hoppe, a University of Minnesota herpetologist. "We don't know how far this is going to go." Because frogs spend much of their life in water, pesticides or toxic metals were prime suspects. But now possible causes include acid rain, global warming and increased ultraviolet light. Hoppe observes that different deformities seem to be concentrated in frogs from different regions. It may be, he says, that more than one cause is at work...
...insult ever cleared up a toxic waste dump or helped an elderly person," he added...