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IN RE THE EXXON VALDEZ

Nos. 96-36038, 97-35036, 97-35190.

229 F.3d 790 (2000)

In re: The EXXON VALDEZ Icicle Seafoods, Inc.; Seven Seas Corporation; Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.; Ocean Beauty Alaska, Inc.; Wards Cove Packing Company, Inc.; Alaska Boat Company; North Pacific Processors; Trident Seafoods Corporation; North Coast Seafood Processors, Inc.; ADF, Inc., dba Aleutian Dragon Fisheries, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Exxon Shipping Company; Exxon Corporation, Defendants-Appellants, and v. Grant Baker, et al., as representatives of the Mandatory Punitive Damages Class, Plaintiffs-Appellees. Icicle Seafoods, Inc.; Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc.; Seven Seas Corporation; Stellar Seafoods, Inc.; Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.; Ocean Beauty Alaska, Inc.; Wards Cove Packing Company, Inc.; Alaska Boat Company; North Pacific Processors; ADF, Inc., dba Aleutian Dragon Fisheries; Trident Seafoods Corporation; North Coast Seafood Processors, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Alaska Sportfishing Assoc., Inc.; Louie E. Alber; Ahmet Artuner; Grant C. Baker; Jeffrey Bailey; William Bennett; Michael Wayne Bullock; Robyne L. Butler; Albert Ray Carroll; Debra Lee, Inc.; Dew Drop, Inc.; Larry L. Dooley; Mark Doumit; Steve Doumit; Douglas R. Jensen; Dennis G. Johnson; Donald P. Komkoff, Sr.; Josef Kopecky; Daniel Lowell; Andrew E. Martusheff; Carol Ann Maxwell; Jacquelan Jill Maxwell; Robert A. Maxwell, Sr.; Michael McLenaghan; Elenore E. McMullen; Leslie R. Meredith; The Native Village of Tatitlek; Leonard S. Ogle; Steven T. Olsen; August M. Pederson, Jr.; Mary Lou Redmond; Joseph David Stanton; Jean A. Tisdall; Darrell Wood, Defendants-Appellees. In re: The Exxon Valdez Icicle Seafoods, Inc.; Peter Pan Seafoods, Inc.; Seven Seas Corporation; Stellar Seafoods, Inc.; Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc.; Ocean Beauty Alaska, Inc.; Wards Cove Packing Company, Inc.; Alaska Boat Company; North Pacific Processors; ADF, Inc., dba Aleutian Dragon Fisheries; Trident Seafoods Corporation; North Coast Seafood Processors, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Grant Baker, et al., as representatives of the Mandatory Punitive Damages Class, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Exxon Corporation, Exxon Shipping Company, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed October 12, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Tarshes, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Anchorage, Alaska, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

James vanR. Springer, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, Washington, DC, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

Brian B. O'Neill, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

John F. Daum, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for defendants-appellants Exxon Corporation.

Bradley S. Keller, Byrnes & Keller, LLP, Seattle, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellants North Coast Seafood Processors, Inc.

Before: James R. BROWNING, Mary M. SCHROEDER, and Andrew J. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Argued and Submitted May 3, 1999 — Seattle, Washington

SCHROEDER, Circuit, Judge:

This appeal represents a small part of the massive litigation generated by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill into the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska. The dispute we consider here arises from the punitive damages claims filed against Exxon2 by private parties injured by the spill and consolidated into a single mandatory class action in...

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