US Racketeering Trial Against Tobacco Industry Is Set to Start
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It has taken five years of pretrial skirmishing, but testimony will finally begin Tuesday in the government&#39;s massive racketeering case against the tobacco industry for allegedly defrauding
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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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The trial of a man who is accused of murdering five women in Suffolk in 2006 is due to begin.
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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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The US Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday that will decide important cases on federal sentencing rules, the death penalty for juveniles and the medical use of marijuana.
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Federal prosecutors and Big Tobacco lawyers will storm into legal war Tuesday in a $280 billion megatrial and fraud case that could cripple the leading US cigarette firms if they lose.
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ROME -- The first criminal trial involving one of the Bush administration's most controversial tactics in fighting terrorism is  set to begin June 8 after an Italian judge on Friday indicted 33 people -- ...Comment
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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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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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A U.S. judge is expected on Monday to   rule on whether to certify as a class action a lawsuit that   accuses tobacco companies of defrauding smokers into thinking   "light" cigarettes were safer than regular brands, according to   notice sent to lawyers in the case.
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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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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 US class-action award, the largest ever by an American jury.
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Alleged mafia boss Joey 'the Clown' Lombardo and four others go on trial in the US city of Chicago.
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US prosecutors will try to overturn a court ruling that threw out its claim for $280bn in damages from the nation's major tobacco firms.
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Lawyers for cigarette makers on  Wednesday sought to knock down the government's $280 billion  racketeering case against the industry, telling a federal judge  that they had already addressed the government's concerns by  changing the way they do business.
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Kieran Fallon and two other jockeys are to go on trial next year over allegations of race-fixing.
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The first criminal trial against any former Enron Corp. employees is scheduled to begin today in Houston. The case is against two ex-Enron workers and four former Merrill Lynch &amp; Co.