ELR Citation: ELR 21131
No(s). s. 97-35538, 35820 (9th Cir. Apr 20, 1999)

The court affirms, with one exception, a $1.7-million damage award imposed on a shipping company for the costs incurred by the U.S. Coast Guard in monitoring the company's removal of an oil tanker that ran aground in the Shumagin Islands of Alaska. The court first holds that the Oil Pollution Act of...