Lawyers hold high noon in Marlboro Lights case
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SPRINGFIELD -- Lawyers squared off Wednesday over whether the Illinois Supreme Court should overturn the largest verdict for damages in the state&#39;s history: a $10.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - A fireworks maker and several other defendants sued by relatives of 100 people killed in a 2003 U.S. nightclub fire have agreed to pay $13.5 million to settle claims, a lawyer in the case said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- It has taken five years of pretrial skirmishing, but testimony will finally begin tomorrow in the government's massive racketeering case alleging that the tobacco industry defrauded and misled the American public for almost 50 years about the health risks of cigarette smoking.
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WASHINGTON - A lawyer for the tobacco industry on Wednesday rejected the government's claim that cigarette companies conspired for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking and should forfeit $280 billion generated by the alleged fraud.    To win the case, the government must prove the scheme existed and is likely to continue...
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The US Supreme Court said Friday it would consider whether smokers of cigarettes marketed as "light" could sue the makers for deception on the grounds that they were just as harmful as regular smokes.
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Tobacco industry lawyers say the government won't be able to prove cigarette makers schemed for decades to deceive the public about smoking hazards and that the industry intends to keep up such bad behavior.
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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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A divided U.S. 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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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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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.
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On the eve of a $280 billion  racketeering trial of major cigarette makers, political and  legal uncertainties are still seen hanging over the U.S.  government's long-awaited case.
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A $280bn (Â£156bn) government lawsuit against the largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States begins on Tuesday with both sides confident of victory.
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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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Government prosecutors rested their terrorism case against a civil rights attorney and two others by invoking references to Osama bin Laden, anti-American hatred and Sept. 11, drawing immediate protests from the defense.
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A California appeals court is  considering whether to resurrect a lawsuit accusing cigarette  makers of using characters like Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man  to entice youngsters to start smoking and keep them hooked, a  lawyer in the case said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Tobacco companies, desperate to maintain their hold on tens of millions of American smokers, worked together for decades to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarettes and to encourage the young to start puffing, government lawyers said yesterday at the start of a racketeering trial.
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More lawyers may follow the lead of a top QC who has resigned following the Law Lordsâ damning verdict on the Governmentâs anti-terror laws, a civil rights group claimed today.