Sentences with phrase «against the tobacco industry»

The federal statute was originally enacted to fight organized crime but was successfully employed against the tobacco industry in the 1990s.
While those types of claims are similar to ones made against the tobacco industry, they could be harder to prove.
Supporters say the bill would increase accountability in high - profile cases such as against the tobacco industry.
I believe it is also important for the Chinese government to support tobacco victims in filing litigations against the tobacco industry.
Since the landmark recoupment lawsuits against the tobacco industry, state attorneys general have sought to recover costs from other industries, including firearms and pharmaceuticals, by partnering with the personal injury bar to sue whole industries.
In 1994, the Castano class action was the first class action litigation filed against the tobacco industry, which eventually resulted in the historic $ 196 Billion settlement with the tobacco industry.
It's early days, but the battle could emulate the one that was fought in American courtrooms against the tobacco industry in the 1990s.
Almost all these lawsuits are in the U.S. only, and in too many cases, those seemingly big legal victories against the tobacco industry have been overturned by higher courts.
Witness the incredible chain of events that pitted an ordinary man against the tobacco industry and dragged two people into the fight of their lives.
After the legislature had passed a constitutionally dubious law loading the deck against the tobacco industry, the court, in a 4 — 3 decision, found a way to uphold it.
«Under President Clinton, the Department of Justice brought and won a civil RICO action against the tobacco industry for its fraud.
Served as key member of the legal team representing the State of New Jersey against the tobacco industry and helped achieve the largest settlement in the history of New Jersey, totaling $ 7.6 billion dollars;
The Gertler Law Firm also was a leader in a group of prominent Louisiana law firms that obtained a groundbreaking and unprecedented judgment against the tobacco industry, which ordered the tobacco companies to establish a $ 241 million cessation program for the citizens of Louisiana.
Armed with incriminating evidence and an inventive approach, Motley Rice attorneys led the litigation efforts against the tobacco industry on behalf of numerous State Attorneys General.
Mr. Kerrigan was one of nine trial lawyers selected by the Governor of the State of Florida to prosecute the State's claim for Medicaid recovery against the tobacco industry.
Ayers argued at the summit that, «the RICO Act, which had been used effectively against the tobacco industry, could similarly be used to bring a lawsuit against carbon producers.»
Breslin and Breslin, PA, Donald A. Caminiti, Esq., was one of six law firms selected by the Attorney General of the State of New Jersey to act as special counsel to represent it in its lawsuit against the tobacco industry to recover Medicaid and other health related costs incurred by the state resulting from tobacco related illnesses.
Nevertheless, the company has been involved in creating computer animations for several landmark cases, including the Justice Department's case against the tobacco industry and litigation over whether the collapse of the World Trade Center's twin towers constituted two insurable events.
Private counsel for Massachusetts and New Hampshire in groundbreaking litigation against the tobacco industry (Significant injunctive relief and recovery of more than $ 10 billion)
Prosecution under that law, which was used against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, would require evidence of a conspiracy.
When most people think of product liability lawsuits they often imagine faulty kitchen appliances, poor building materials (asbestos), or media - famous lawsuits like those against the tobacco industry and McDonald's.
He was Co-Counsel in the lawsuit against the tobacco industry (representing the Governor of New Jersey) that settled for $ 8 Billion and Co-Counsel in the VIOXX litigation that settled for $ 4.85 Billion.
In state recoupment litigation against the tobacco industry, most states retained personal injury lawyers on a contingent fee basis to assist them with their litigation.
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