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Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy posts about this New York Times story reporting on infighting between DOJ career attorneys and political appointees regarding the DOJ's decision to seek $ 10 billion in penalties against the tobacco companies in its racketeering case rather than the $ 130 billion originally sought.

Historian Robert Proctor plans to testify as an expert witness against tobacco companies in a number of cases brought by smokers in Florida.

Both lawsuits draw inspiration from litigation brought against tobacco companies in the 1990s.

Not exact matches

Australia is already having a painful experience with this type of clause — tobacco company Philip Morris Asia has commenced arbitration against the Australian government over its new plain packaging for tobacco products laws using a similar clause in an investment treaty between Australia and Hong Kong.

He said a mansion tax for those living in houses worth over # 2 million, moves against tax avoidance including closing hedge fund tax loopholes and a raid on tobacco companies» profits would help pay to relieve NHS workers of the «huge future pressures» they face.

A new Survation poll for Labour List of 1,037 people shows that 72 % of the public are in favour of the policy to fund the NHS to the tune of # 2.5 bn extra a year, partially using taxes against tobacco companies and mansions as well as closing loopholes.

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A poll in late March found that 68 % of likely voters supported the measure, but that was before tobacco companies and other opponents mounted a vigorous campaign against it.

In recent years, the efforts against tobacco companies have increased, and people have actually begun winning lawsuits against these companies.

She has also contributed to tobacco control through her work as an expert witness in the State of Minnesota's lawsuit against the major tobacco companies.

By analogy there is no law against selling tobacco, but the tobacoco companies agreed to pay billions in various federal lawsuits.

The case against Exxon and Shell is similar to the case against the tobacco companies — that they engaged in fraud to deceive the American public about the health effects of their products.

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.

We have seen the tactics of climate contrarians before with cigarette propaganda tactics, as noted HERE: «An identical strategy succeeded in delaying government action against tobacco companies for years despite overwhelming evidence of the hazards of cigarettes».

In August 2011, however, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that requiring the gnarly warnings to accompany their product will violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print, and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.

«I conclude that all the claims of Imperial [Tobacco] and the other tobacco companies brought against the government of Canada are bound to fail,» Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the long, complex, and unanimous 9 - 0 judgment.

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.

1960: Partners Kiendl and Chandler successfully represent R.J. Reynolds in one of the first products liability against a tobacco company, Lartigue v. R.J. Reynolds.

Kuntz, whose firm has been retained by the government of British Columbia in its litigation against tobacco companies, noted that lawyers dealing with large volumes of edocuments have already caught on.

Represented the United States in UNCITRAL Rules proceedings under NAFTA defending against a Canadian tobacco company's claim that the master tobacco settlement between forty - six United States states and major tobacco companies violated the expropriation and national treatment provisions of NAFTA.

Background In 2001, the Province brought an aggregate action to recover health care expenditures for tobacco related diseases against 13 tobacco companies including Philip Morris International («PMI»).

In its defence of two actions against Imperial Tobacco, one being litigation by British Columbia for health care costs incurred by BC to treat illnesses caused by tobacco usage, and the second being a claim by class members who bought «light» or «mild» cigarettes, Imperial Tobacco sought to add Canada as a third party, based on statements Canada made to tobacco companies and the public about the purportedly lesser risk of «light» reduced - tar cigarettes as compared with normal cigarettes.

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