Ex-Tobacco Lawyer Dies After Falling Ill on Stand
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A retired tobacco industry lawyer  died just hours after illness cut short his testimony on  Wednesday in the government's $280 billion suit against the  industry, a company spokeswoman said.
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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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Milton H. Cohen, a securities lawyer whose insights into the stock market became the basis for innumerable regulatory proposals over the last 40 years, died Oct. 30 at his home in Haverford, Pa.
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Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed fell sick in court during a hearing on extortion charges, a state prosecutor said.
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Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, New York's medical examiner rules.
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George Burger, a former political consultant who became vice president of the PGA Tour's new FedExCup competition, died of complications from bacterial spinal meningitis. He was 50.
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A lawyer for the tobacco industry Thursday attempted to paint the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration as a man who seized upon a political environment that was hostile to the tobacco industry in order to advance his
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Former Playboy Playmate and billionaire's widow Anna Nicole Smith has died at the age of 39 after apparently collapsing in a Florida hotel room, her lawyer said on Thursday.
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An Iraqi lawyer said Friday that one of Saddam Hussein's former top scientists, known as "Mrs. Anthrax," has cancer and is dying in U.S. custody where she has been held for more than a year.
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A lawyer for Saddam Hussein said one of his witnesses had been killed and complained of restrictions on the case.
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Allen Carr, the Briton who helped millions of people to quit smoking, has died after losing his battle with lung cancer, his spokeswoman said.
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A 40-year-old British doctor has been killed after falling at least 30 metres on to rocks when he took a wrong turn while snowboarding off-piste in the French Alps
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Helped by two whistle-blowers, the lawyer who beat Big Tobacco is on a new crusade -- to fight what clinics charge the uninsured
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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The lead attorney defending an accused helper of the Sept 11 suicide pilots at his Hamburg retrial was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, said his office, throwing into question how the trial will proceed.
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Indonesia's former president Suharto  has suffered multiple organ failure and is on a ventilator,  doctors said, while the Vice President had been summoned to his  bedside to witness the 86-year-old's death.
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NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Sports Network) - Bowling legend  Dick Weber died in his sleep Sunday night at his home in the  St. Louis area. He was 75 years old.