Exxon Mobile returns to court over €4bn judgement

Exxon Mobil’s appeal of a £2.8bn (€4.08bn) judgment Alaska jurors levied as punishment for the 1989 Valdez oil spill was heading back to a federal appeals court today.

The case, one of America’s longest-running civil disputes, stems from a 1994 decision by an Anchorage jury to award the punitive damages to 34,000 fishermen and other Alaskans.