EXXON CORPORATION
v.
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES et al.
Supreme Court of Alabama.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 20, 2002.
Order Overruling Rehearing Applications April 11, 2003.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
David R. Boyd and W. Joseph McCorkle, Jr., of Balch & Bingham, L.L.P., Montgomery; Sam C. Pointer, Jr., and M. Christian King of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham; Joseph C. Espy III and Suzanne D. Edwards of Melton, Espy, Williams & Hayes, P.C., Montgomery; William D. Scruggs and E. Allen Dodd, Jr., of Scruggs, Dodd, Dodd & Bazemore, Attorneys, P.A., Fort Payne; and Walter E. Dellinger, John F. Daum, and Charles C. Lifland of O'Melveny & Myers, L.L.P., Washington, D.C., for appellant.
Charles J. Cooper, deputy atty. gen., and Vincent J. Colatriano, Hamish P.M. Hume, and Derek L. Shaffer of Cooper & Kirk, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C.; William H. Pryor, Jr., atty. gen.; Charles W. Gamble, deputy atty. gen., Tuscaloosa; John T. Crowder, deputy atty. gen.; and Robert T. Cunningham, Jr., Richard T. Dorman, David G. Wirtes, Jr., and George M. Dent of Cunningham, Bounds, Yance, Crowder & Brown, L.L.C., Mobile, for appellees.
Sally S. Reilly, Birmingham, for amicus curiae American Corporate Counsel Association.
Mike Moore, atty. gen., Mississippi; John Cornyn, atty. gen., Texas; W.A. Drew Edmondson, atty. gen., Oklahoma; Richard P. Ieyoub, atty. gen., Louisiana; Richard Blumenthal, atty. gen., Connecticut; Thomas J. Miller, atty. gen., Iowa; Frankie Sue Del Papa, atty. gen., Nevada; Patricia A. Madrid, atty. gen., New Mexico; Mark Barnett, atty. gen., South Dakota; Mark L. Shurtleff, atty. gen., Utah; Darrell V. McGraw, Jr., atty. gen., West Virginia; and Anabelle Rodriguez, atty. gen., Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for amici curiae states of Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Connecticut, Iowa, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
PER CURIAM.
This case involves an adverse judgment against Exxon Corporation regarding royalty payments it owes the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources ("DCNR") for gas Exxon extracted from Mobile Bay. The jury awarded the State $87.7 million in compensatory damages and $3.42 billion in punitive damages on breach-of-contract and fraud claims. We reverse and remand.
I. Factual Background
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