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- <text id=89TT2208>
- <title>
- Aug. 28, 1989: Business Notes:Litigation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- LITIGATION
- A Lawsuit as Big as Alaska
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- <p> When Exxon reckoned in July that it would spend nearly $1.3
- billion to clean up its Alaskan oil spill, liability lawyers
- knew that was just the beginning. In Anchorage last week the
- state of Alaska filed a civil suit against the petroleum giant
- and the owners of the trans-Alaska pipeline, seeking unspecified
- damages that could total billions of dollars. Alaska charges the
- oil companies with deceiving the public about the safety of the
- shipping operation and with incompetence in the cleanup.
- </p>
- <p> Alaska v. Exxon et al is likely to break some courtroom
- records. Robert LeResche, who heads the state's investigation
- of the spill, believes the legal wrangling will last at least
- a decade. "Out of the approximately 150 suits filed against
- Exxon, this is the big one," says Bryan Jacoboski, who follows
- the oil industry for Paine Webber. "It will keep Exxon's stock
- from going anywhere for a long time."
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