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...Steve Valdez-Symonds, director for refugee and migrant rights at human rights group Amnesty International UK, called the Home Office’s approach “too slow and too bureaucratic”....
...Other aspects of the industry have changed less since the Exxon Valdez....
...Days after unknown assailants murdered Mexican journalist Javier Valdez in 2017, who had been highly critical of the government, his widow received text messages that offered details on his murder....
...“There’s just this obsession of making it very, very difficult for the simplest cases and also expensive,” said Ms Valdez-Symonds....
...“What keeps people up at night is the idea of an Exxon Valdez in the Antarctic, a major grounding or something really environmentally catastrophic,” Lynch says....
...If there’s going to be an Exxon-Valdez privacy moment, I’m beginning to think it may be in this area of medical records, which we actually own, but are being used in a variety of ways we don’t understand...
....: Made in America Animated feature: Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer, Zootopia Sound editing: Sylvain Bellemare, Arrival Visual effects: Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R....
...Robert Greene Sterne Director, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox Robert Greene Sterne has set out to understand and lay bare the complexities of patent litigation....
...There, Ms Hernández noted, he will be in the company of other drug bosses, including Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, the head of the Zetas who was captured last year; Edgar Valdez Villareal, the drugs boss...
...The drill ship was not carrying the large quantities of crude oil that have led to previous environmental catastrophes off Alaska, including the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill from a crude oil tanker....
...The example of the Exxon Valdez spill, he says, should make the fishermen of the gulf wary about trying to take BP on in court....
...But Robert Gordon, lawyer at Weitz & Luxenberg, representing more than 500 commercial fisherman in lawsuits against BP, said the company’s initial payments of $5,000 to boat owners and $2,500 to fishermen...
...The 1990 Oil Pollution Act, passed a year after the Exxon-Valdez spill in Alaska, limits BP’s liability in federal lawsuits to $75m....
...Robert Dudley, an executive board director of BP, told ABC TV on Thursday that the top kill could take a further 24-48 hours....
...Mr Hayward was, laughable as it now sounds, eager to be a model corporate citizen and show that BP would be more responsive than Exxon Mobil after the Valdez disaster....
...Under laws enacted following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, the “responsible party” is required to pay for all costs....
...Instead of sticking with the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, passed after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Washington has moved to impose punitive damages....
...The Justice Department is looking at violations of the same laws deemed to have been broken when the Exxon Valdez tanker spilt oil into Alaskan waters in 1989....
...According to Nikolas Tsakos, the listing trend started partly because of the pressure, after pollution disasters such as 1989’s Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, to be open and accountable....
...Next week, Exxon will try to persuade the Supreme Court that it should not have to pay $2.5bn (€1.7bn, £1.2bn) in punitive damages to victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill....
...Each of the ones we remember – Titanic, Bounty, Beagle, Spray, Victory, Mayflower, Exxon Valdez – summon up in a few syllables a wealth of history, adventure or human folly....
...Disasters, such as Bhopal and Exxon Valdez, had raised awareness of the power of big companies to cause massive environmental damage....
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