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...pension plan not to be age discriminatory, Justice Breyer wrote the opinion joined by fellow liberals Stevens and Souter and by conservatives Roberts and Thomas. (Ginsberg joined Scalia and Alito in Kennedy's dissent.) Likewise the Exxon case, where the court cut the company's punitive damages in the Valdez oil spill, had a similar melange in its 6-3 ruling. "In one way there wasn't the unanimity and consensus the chief justice said he wants, but there was something reassuring this term," says Lazarus. "It seemed less political and more like a lot of lawyers disagreeing. The justices...
...slew of bloggers and columnists from media outlets have said the move is discriminatory, puts minority interests ahead of the majority, and could be seen as a “dangerous” concession to Islam. Linda Valdez, a columnist for The Arizona Republic, called the policy an infringement on equal rights...
...Disaster Re-Examined It has been almost two decades since the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which a tanker dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. Now after a lengthy legal battle over one of the most environmentally disastrous events in U.S. history, the Supreme Court is hearing Exxon's appeal. A look back at the case...
...SHIP'S LENGTH The skipper responsible for the accident, Joseph Hazelwood, was accused of drunkenly crashing the Exxon Valdez into a reef but was later acquitted...
...their employment decisions.“In the 60s and 70s, companies like Dow Chemical were an issue for students because of their involvement with making napalm in Vietnam,” he says. And “major petroleum companies like Exxon have their environmental problems, like the Valdez incident,” he adds, referring to a massive oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989.But moral concerns are often short-lived.“I would have conversations with engineering students who said they would never work with [Exxon]—yet that changes...