Kodiak Island Borough v. Exxon Corp.

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• concluding federal maritime law does not preempt state statute allowing municipalities to pursue diverted-services claims against oil companies
• reversing summary judgment against municipalities seeking to recover diverted services damages from their response to the oil spill because their claims were authorized by state statute
• noting legislature's intent to abrogate otherwise applicable common-law doctrines when statute provided for strict liability \[n]otwithstanding any other provision or rule of law\
• noting legislature's intent to abrogate otherwise applicable common-law doctrines when statute provided for strict liability \[nlotwithstanding any other provision or rule of law\
• reversing summary judgment against municipalities seeking to recover diverted services damages from their response to the oil spill because their claims were authorized by state statute
• construing, in dicta, “subsection .822(a)’s statement of specific compensable costs to be exemplary and inclusive, not definitive or exclusive” and “adopt[ing] a literal and inflexible view of subsection .822(a

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