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Exxon Valdez Trials Set for 1993: A judge in Anchorage has ordered civil trials over the Exxon Valdez oil spill to begin in April, 1993. Superior Court Judge Brian Shortell divided the cases into requests for punitive damages and lawsuits filed for other compensation. Exxon Corp. lawyers have said they expect to turn over about 30 million pages of documents for the trials and face about 19,000 lawsuits over the nation’s worst oil spill.
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