Sentences with phrase «against the tobacco industry in»

It's early days, but the battle could emulate the one that was fought in American courtrooms against the tobacco industry in the 1990s.

Prosecution under that law, which was used against the tobacco industry in the 1990s, would require evidence of a conspiracy.

Not exact matches

Private counsel for Massachusetts and New Hampshire in groundbreaking litigation against the tobacco industry (Significant injunctive relief and recovery of more than $ 10 billion)

These are among the items promoted for Holy Week: two polemics against white racism, an attack on the tobacco industry, three murder mysteries, one story about a serial murderer, a comedy about soap operas, a story on the sexual abuse of children, and a drama about vampire families in San Francisco.

I believe it is also important for the Chinese government to support tobacco victims in filing litigations against the tobacco industry.

The industry pressure against his proposal would be great here because Erie County would be the first in New York State, and lobbyists would not want such tobacco restrictions to gain a foothold.

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.

This Workshop was conceived by history professor Naomi Oreskes, who was obsessed with prosecuting fossil fuel producers with the same legal tools successfully used to win billions of dollars in penalties against the tobacco industry.

Unlike, apparently, many of the «skeptics» here, I think that the RICO case against the tobacco industry served a useful function — and that such legal recourse, in balance, benefits our society.

By both outsourcing the misinformation campaign and allowing their scientists to publish research in peer - reviewed journals — where it was available to but largely unseen by the public — the oil companies tried to buffer themselves against the legal liability that took down the tobacco industry.

My analogy is to the tactics used by the tobacco industry in their fight against regulation.

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.

The CJEU's answer to this question given in the recent Philip Morris judgment, emerged from the latest round of challenges by the tobacco industry against Directive 2014 / 40 / EU, seems to be «no».

Supporters say the bill would increase accountability in high - profile cases such as against the tobacco industry.

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 industrIn 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 industrin the historic $ 196 Billion settlement with the tobacco industry.

After representing hundreds of Floridians who lost their homes in Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis, Loehr returned to litigating against the cigarette industry, heading the firms tobacco litigation department.

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.

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.

These cases include the recent constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the decisions invalidating Sarbanes - Oxley's accounting board, preventing the Justice Department from obtaining monetary relief against the tobacco industry under RICO, overturning the federal government's plan to statistically adjust the census, limiting the Justice Department's ability to create «majority - minority» districts, and upholding Proposition 209's ban on racial preferences in California