US Suit Against Tobacco Makers Goes to Trial
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Major cigarette makers go on trial on Tuesday in the US government&#39;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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Tobacco industry lawyers  acknowledged in federal court on Wednesday that some companies  may have done some things wrong in the past, but they denied  government allegations the industry engaged in a conspiracy to  mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
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A lawsuit accusing tobacco companies of   defrauding smokers into thinking "light" cigarettes were safer   than regular brands can proceed as a class action, a federal   judge in New York ruled on Monday.
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A US court revives shareholder lawsuits against drugs giant Merck over the health risks of its  painkiller Vioxx.
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Cigarette makers lied about the dangers of smoking for 50 years, the US government said on Tuesday as its $280 billion case against the industry went to trial.
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A $200 billion U.S. lawsuit filed by  "light" cigarette smokers gained class action status on Monday,  hammering shares of U.S. tobacco companies.
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The former head of a tobacco-funded  indoor air research organization was confronted with  allegations that the group concealed its connection to  cigarette makers, as he testified in the government's $280  billion conspiracy suit against the industry on Monday.
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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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It has taken five years of pretrial skirmishing, but testimony will finally begin  Tuesday in the government's massive racketeering case against the tobacco industry for allegedly defrauding and misleading the American public for almost 50 years about the health risks of cigarette smoking.
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US lawsuit against tobacco firms that "duped" smokers over low-tar cigarettes get the go-ahead.
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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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U.S. tobacco companies have been hit with thousands of new lawsuits in Florida from smokers and their families seeking compensation before Friday's court-imposed deadline for filing individual claims in what is shaping up as a major challenge for the industry.
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Sudan goes on trial in the US accused of aiding the deadly attack on an American warship in Yemen in 2000.
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U.S. opens $280 billion fraud trial against tobacco industry, alleging the biggest companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
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Japan Tobaccoâs Canadian unit was ordered by an Ontario judge to stand trial on charges it defrauded the Canadian government out of about a billion Canadian dollars ($931 million) in the 1990s by shipping cigarettes to the United States to avoid paying taxes. The judge, David Fairgrieve of Ontario Provincial Court, said in a 29-page ruling that prosecutors had presented enough evidence to warrant a trial of the unit, JTI-MacDonald. The company has denied any wrongdoing.
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U.S. smokers spent as much as $200   billion over more than three decades buying "light" cigarettes   under the false belief they were safer than regular smokes, an   attorney in a potential class action lawsuit argued on   Wednesday.
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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.