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CHENEGA CORP. v. EXXON CORP.

Nos. S-7252, S-7512.

991 P.2d 769 (1999)

CHENEGA CORPORATION, Port Graham Corporation, and English Bay Corporation, Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. EXXON CORPORATION and Exxon Shipping Corporation, Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 22, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel J. Fortier, Fortier & Mikko, P.C., Anchorage, and Kenneth F. McCallion, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP, New York, New York, for Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

Douglas J. Serdahely, Bogle & Gates, P.L.L.C., Anchorage, John F. Clough III and Eric Twelker, Clough & Associates, P.C., Juneau, Charles P. Diamond and M. Randall Oppenheimer, O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles, California, for Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Before BRYNER, Justice, RABINOWITZ, Senior Justice, pro tem, HUNT, GREENE, and ZERVOS, Justices, pro tem.

OPINION

BRYNER, Justice.

A jury awarded several Alaska Native corporations almost $6,000,000 for harm caused by the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill. Exxon and the corporations appeal, raising numerous issues. We affirm in all respects but one: The superior court determined that the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 did not assign to the corporations certain federal claims for spill-related harm to federal lands that the corporations had selected under the Alaska Native Claims...

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