U.S. Supreme Court
Points of View
Posted Sep 1, 2008, 08:00 am CDT
By Wendy N. Davis
“Yeah, ah, Valdez back, ah, we’ve, should be on your radar there, we’ve fetched up, ah, hard aground, north of Goose Island, off Bligh Reef, and, ah, evidently leaking some oil, and we’re gonna be here for a while and, ah, if you want, ah, so you’re notified, over,” Hazelwood says.
The call was placed about 20 minutes after the Exxon Valdez crashed in Prince William Sound, dumping more than 10 million gallons of oil in the Alaskan waters. The 1989 oil spill was the worst in U.S. history.
That radio transmission was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court’s attention courtesy of Jeffrey L. Fisher, who argued the case, Exxon Shipping Co. v.…
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