Exxon Oil Spill Case May Get Closure

You should also read the appalling story about the Exxon Oil Spill!

It took almost 20 years after the Valdez Wreck for justices to weigh in.

The Washington Post writes, “When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of people who had their lives disrupted by the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill, an appeal of the nation's largest punitive damages award was inevitable.

But almost no one could have predicted the incredible round of legal ping-pong that only this month lands at the Supreme Court."

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This story shows how American corporate values have being dominated by greed and are dominating politics in the United States all the way to the Supreme Court. However, corporations have become so powerful that they are now almost untouchable. Such system thrives on the ability of the wealthiest to control and manipulate the system.

It is time that America returns to a true system of checks and balances. A system that is fair and just! A system where every one is equal regardless of how much money one has. A system where each person has an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic rights and liberties for all. However, justice requires the maximization of the total or average welfare across all relevant individuals. Something that has been missing in today's corporate world.

The people of this world are yawning for equality and justice!