Ailing smokers ask Florida justices to restore $145 billion award
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Sick Florida smokers urged the state&#39;s highest court Wednesday to punish the tobacco industry for &quot;fraud and deceit&quot; by restoring a $145 billion class-action award, the largest ever by an American jury.
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Tobacco companies were &quot;breathing a multi-billion dollar sigh of relief&quot; after an Australian court threw out a class action seeking compensation for illness caused by smoking, the plaintiff's lawyer said.
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The U.S. Justice Department said on  Wednesday it will ask a federal appeals court to reconsider a  recent ruling that barred the government's bid to have  cigarette makers pay back $280 billion in past profits.
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RALEIGH, NC - A group overseeing payments to tobacco farmers and quota holders from a 1999 settlement will appeal a judge&#39;s decision that cigarette companies do not have to make the last of those payments.
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The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a record &#36;145 billion punitive damage award against tobacco companies for injuring smokers, saying it was excessive even though it agreed that the companies had misled the public about the dangers of cigarettes.
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The Supreme Court considered on Monday whether sick people should not be prosecuted under federal law for growing and using marijuana with a doctorâs recommendation.
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A divided Supreme Court set aside on Tuesday a $79.5 million punitive damages award won by a longtime smoker's widow against Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris unit.
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Florida's Supreme Court heard arguments in the right-to-die case of a severely brain-damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed but later reinserted after state Governor Jeb Bush intervened.
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Delta Democrat Times. It is estimated by the American Cancer Society that more than 45 percent of Americans are smokers, which should make for an interesting public hearing tonight - and
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Lawyers for the tobacco industry and the government debated yesterday whether a law drafted to prosecute mobsters can be used to obtain $280 billion from cigarette makers.
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The nicotine in cigarettes is  habit-forming but is not the sole cause of addiction, a tobacco  company executive argued during testimony on Tuesday in the  government's $280 billion suit against cigarette makers.
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WASHINGTON The tobacco industry urged a federal appeals court today to throw out a decision allowing the Justice Department to sue cigarette companies for 280 (b) billion dollars.
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A closely divided U.S. Supreme Court overturned on Tuesday a $79.5 million punitive damages award won by a longtime smoker's widow against Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris unit.
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The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from smokers who said they were misled about the health risks of ÂlightÂ cigarettes.
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Several major tobacco companies are set to go to a U.S. appellate court on Tuesday to argue about whether a $200 billion lawsuit against them by "light" cigarette smokers should proceed as a class action.
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The Food and Drug Administration should be given the power to regulate tobacco products and cigarette taxes should be hiked as part of a government campaign to reduce smoking, an expert panel recommended on Thursday.
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Several US Supreme Court justices expressed reservations Monday about allowing medical marijuana for sick patients whose doctors have recommended they smoke it for pain.