Sentences with phrase «tobacco cases»

As an attorney, Cheng worked on the city's tobacco cases that resulted in a $ 500 million settlement that was used to renovate Laguna Honda Hospital.

Our attorneys also succeeded in having two plaintiff verdicts in tobacco cases vacated on post-trial motions, a very unusual result in that litigation.

If the lawyers and plaintiffs walked into the civil tobacco cases smoking the whole time, do you think the result would have been the same?

The ruling is not technically binding in other counties with pending tobacco cases, but Bill Ogle, a lawyer working on Proctor's behalf, hoped the Duval ruling would have persuasive sway in other counties and help develop a consensus for Proctor's side.

These brave members of this coalition are doing their job like they did in the tobacco case,» said Vice President Gore, comparing fossil fuel companies to the tobacco companies of the 1990s that fell under intense scrutiny over misstatements about cancer and heart disease risks associated with cigarette smoking.

The tobacco case was pure government bullying and should never have been done.

A 1994 tobacco case State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota v. Philip Morris et al proved the RICO law to be valuable not for racketeering convictions, but for its subpoena power to find and weaponize internal documents, which, in the case of the tobacco industry found documents that led to the fourth largest lawsuit money settlement in all of history, anywhere.

If we apply current reasoning to the tobacco case why weren't the tobacco farmers held responsible?

Compare that again to the findings in the tobacco case.

«Supreme Court's punitive damage clarity: Lower courts may have tried a legal end run around the high court in a tobacco case, but the justices have indicated that may be coming to an end.»

David Wallace, from the defence team that won the first tobacco case in the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, told the paper that corporations in Australia and elsewhere would need to prepare for cross-border litigation.

Not exact matches

Although Ottawa never explicitly said the Tobacco Transition Program was designed to phase out Canada's tobacco industry, many took it to be the case.

Many tobacco stores also sell accessories, such as lighters, cigarette cases, ashtrays, tobacco pipes; hookahs, electronic cigarettes, chewing tobacco and other types of tobacco products.

In some cases, they may be in an unattractive or risky industry like bit tobacco.

The law firm is best known for its successes in recovering billions of dollars in damages in the Drexel Burnham / Michael Milken junk bond case, The Exxon Valdez case, and recent tobacco and Holocaust cases, and many others.

The attorneys prosecuting the cases of the third wave of tobacco litigation also used a number of innovative legal devices, strategies or tactics designed to circumvent the tobacco industry's abusive discovery practices and to overcome the tremendous resource advantages enjoyed by the industry in previous litigation.

Does anyone doubt» even for a moment» how the liberal Justices would have resolved the case if, instead of abortion clinics, coal mines, for example, or gun dealerships, or, heaven help us, tobacco shops would have been the «facilities» singled out for unique immunity?

Bearing in mind we'll supply on average 370 x 12 cases of wine, 110 x 12 cases of spirits, 450 cases of cased beer and 75 x 10 gallon kegs, along with other tobacco and gift products, it's no mean feat.

According to figures from the National Cancer Institute, thirty percent of all cancer cases can be attributed to tobacco, while 35 percent are caused by dietary factors.

If they have exposure through the milk, they will certainly also have had it during the pregnancy, and they can also be in the environment, as is the case with tobacco smoke.».

«The BPA industry has adopted the tactics of tobacco and asbestos — when they had no science to make their case, they resorted to scare tactics and public relations,» he said.

There are currently excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, liquid vehicle fuels (for highways), oversized tires for large trucks (presumably for highways), airplane tickets (for the FAA and TSA), multiple aspects of the firearms industry, bows and arrows, vaccines (for a vaccine injury fund), and in a variety of industries in support of marketing boards in those industries (although those cases have had mixed results in litigation).

«All of the supermarkets that we work with in Albany County have put their cigarette displays behind an opaque, locked case, so no one is coming in a store and seeing a tobacco display and saying, «Oh, I think I'll buy tobacco.»»

A government can try to ban anything, but in case of tobacco there are various reasons not to.

But that's not the case for e-cigarettes, and these youth - appealing tactics are luring teens who have never used tobacco products to give e-cigs and even cigarettes a try, a new study suggests.

It also is part of a push from environmental groups to make the legal case that fossil energy companies have lied for decades about global warming risks, just as tobacco companies lied about the connection between smoking and cancer.

However, tobacco accounts for less than a third of all cases of pancreatic cancer, and all the other causes together account for another ten percent.

In his new study, Dr. Blecher drew comparisons between taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks, using South Africa as a case study.

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

While air pollution is to blame for around 3,600 lung cancer cases a year (1 % of all cancer cases), it still causes far fewer cases of lung cancer than tobacco.

When the calories from one feeding of a flower gets you only 15 minutes of flight, as is the case with the tobacco hornworn moth studied, being misled costs a pollinator energy and time.

«Behaviors such as poor diet choices, physical inactivity, excess alcohol consumption and unhealthy body weight could account for more than 20 percent of cancer cases, and could, therefore, be prevented with lifestyle modifications,» Kohler said, adding that when tobacco exposure is considered, these modifiable issues are believed to be factors in two - thirds of U.S. cancer deaths.

When the researchers examined compatible and incompatible pistil - pollen combinations in tobacco plants, they found that S - RNase got inside the pollen in both cases.

In both cases, one of the major products found was a TSNA that is absent in freshly emitted tobacco smoke — the nitrosamine known as NNA.

«This case is one more illustration that, like the tobacco industry, the sugar industry has a long history of suppressing scientific results that do not support its economic interests,» said senior author Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

In any case the warping effect on collagen will only damage your acne slightly and the free radical intake from even a marijuana cigarette is dwarfed by that of tobacco.

As many as 20 percent of cases may be a result of tobacco smoking, and other modifiable risk factors include obesity and heavy alcohol consumption.

Brothels, tobacco and alcohol are usually recession proof but that doesn't appear to be the case this time.

In the case of the tobacco industry, the courts did much of the heavy lifting, giving cancer victims standing to sue and allowing juries to award billions of dollars in punitive damages.

Madsen knows exactly what Dani has and how explosive it is for the pharmaceutical industry: it has the potential to make the tobacco industry's lawsuits and subsequent multi-billion dollar settlements seem like routine slip - and - fall cases.

Yes, I realize it's tough for some to put aside even $ 5,500: if that's the case, then at least shoot for $ 2,000 or $ 3,000 a year, even if it means going without expendable luxuries like alcohol, tobacco, fine dining, lottery tickets or even the much maligned daily latte habit at your local coffee shop.

Marijuana use is looked at on a case - by - case basis, and factors like frequency of use are taken into account, but it's often lumped in with tobacco use.

To provide accurate insurance quotes, certain information must be collected, including state of residence, date of birth, gender, height, weight, coverage amount desired, term period desired (in the case of term life insurance), health classification of the proposed insured, and tobacco use.

The case of the tobacco company scientists who found no link between smoking and lung cancer springs to mind.

The tobacco CEOs were criminally liable for doing precisely that in the case of cigarettes and lung cancer.

In the case of tobacco and coffee there were damages so plaintiffs at least had a weak case; even though the damages were done by the plaintiffs with full knowledge of what they were doing by smoking and spilling hot coffee.

And here's part of the opening statement by the tobacco lawyers in Cipollone v. Liggett, the first case to award damages to a smoker:

The solutions examined were: fighting tuberculosis through drugs and improved case identification; getting cheap drugs that treat acute heart disease to developing countries; combining a malaria prevention package (mosquito nets, DDT spray, etc.) with subsidies on new treatments; expanding immunization and micronutrient coverage for children in developing nations; tobacco taxes in developing nations; and a multiple ‐ intervention approach to preventing and treating H.I.V. / AIDS; making investments in hospitals.

Sheldon almost precisely recapitulates the tobacco industry arguments as cases concerning damage finally became real for the tobacco industry in the late 70s and on.

They've done it through public disinformation campaigns precisely parallel (and in fact explicitly modeled on the tobacco campaigns, and in some cases carried out by the same propagandists (Milloy, or Fred Singer are examples).