US tobacco firms set for trial
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America&#39;s largest tobacco companies go on trial on Tuesday as they face a $280bn (Â£156bn) government lawsuit. Opening arguments will be heard in the case, in which the Justice Department accuses the companies
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WASHINGTON  - Major cigarette makers go on trial on Tuesday in the U.S. government's $280 billion racketeering case that charges the tobacco industry with deliberately deceiving the public about the risks of smoking since the 1950s.
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US government on Tuesday begins a major court battle to win $US280 billion ($400 billion) that it says major tobacco companies earned from the public by covering up the dangers of smoking.
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U.S. appeals court judges considered on Tuesday whether a $200 billion lawsuit against big tobacco companies by smokers of "light" cigarettes should be allowed to go ahead as a class action.
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Philip Morris USA, the tobacco company, will test-market four flavors of a smokeless tobacco product known as snus under the Marlboro brand name.
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On the eve of a $280bn racketeering trial of cigarette majors, political and legal uncertainties are still seen hanging over the US governmentâs long-awaited case.
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Cigarette makers lied and tried to  confuse the public about the dangers of smoking for 50 years,  the U.S. government said on Tuesday as its $280 billion case  against the industry went to trial.
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Lawyers for the tobacco industry and the federal government debated Wednesday whether a law drafted to prosecute mobsters can be used to obtain $280 billion from the nation&#39;s cigarette makers.
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With a bankruptcy court scheduled to hear on Dec. 2 arguments by US Airways Group Inc. to throw out contracts covering union workers who haven&#39;t approved new deals, union leaders for the carrier&#39;s customer
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Engineering firm Balfour Beatty and five railway managers are to go on trial for manslaughter over the Hatfield rail crash.
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Major cigarette makers went on trial  on Tuesday in the U.S. government's $280 billion case, which  charges the tobacco industry with deliberately deceiving the  public about the risks of smoking since the 1950s.
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The first criminal trial involving former Enron staff since the firm&#39;s collapse is set to begin. Two employees of the failed US energy giant and four Merrill Lynch executives face criminal charges relating to an Enron transaction in Nigeria in 1999.
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Major cigarette makers go on trial  on Tuesday in the U.S. government's $280 billion racketeering  case that charges the tobacco industry with deliberately  deceiving the public about the risks of smoking since the  1950s.
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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues affecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry, and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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WASHINGTON - The nation's biggest tobacco companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking, a federal lawyer alleged Tuesday at the start of a civil racketeering trial in which the government seeks a record $280 billion from the industry.    In his opening statement, Justice Department attorney Frank Marine said starting in the 1960s the industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars on organizations set up to counter the growing body of scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer...
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Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and UBS have been ordered to stand trial on charges of market manipulation.
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On Sept. 21 a landmark trial will begin. At stake is no less than $280 billion in what the feds claim is ill-gotten profits. As an industry, tobacco is no stranger to the courts.