09/15/2009
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"This is an important hearing, and it is not easy to deal with the losses of this kind of oil spill."
"To what extent do maritime lawsuits limit or prohibit punitive damages?"
"I talked to a restaurant owner. They had done $430,000 in business last June. This June, this restaurant in Gulf Shores, they were down to $260,000."
"It just strikes me both economically and out of a sense of fairness that if you hurt people, you ought to pay for it."