US court rejects cigarette case
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The US Supreme Court backs an earlier court ruling that cigarette firms cannot be sued over low tar cigarettes.
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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a free-speech challenge to a New York law banning the wearing of masks at public gatherings by a group claiming ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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The court ruled the government could not collect $280 billion it alleges the tobacco industry earned through fraud.
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The US Supreme Court rejected appeals by Visa and MasterCard to overturn a ruling that they violated antitrust rules by barring banks from issuing cards on rival networks.
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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 federal appeals court rejected on Monday an effort by Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to have US courts step into a battle over the sale of Nazi paraphernalia in France.
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON  - The U.S. Supreme Court on  Monday rejected appeals by Visa and MasterCard of a ruling that  the two credit card associations violated antitrust law by  barring banks from issuing credit cards for rival networks.
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Philip Morris USA challenged a $10.1 billion consumer fraud ruling Wednesday, telling the Illinois Supreme Court that its &quot;light&quot; cigarettes performed as advertised.
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The US Supreme Court Monday rejected a challenge to the Massachusetts Supreme Court&#39;s ruling in favor of gay marriage. The rejection of review by the nation&#39;s highest court
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A US judge has rejected a bid by Michael Jackson&#39;s lawyers to have the man leading the singer&#39;s child abuse prosecution thrown off the case.
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New Jersey Supreme Court rules against the possibility of a national class action Vioxx lawsuit.
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WASHINGTON The tobacco industry urged a federal appeals court today to throw out a decision allowing the Justice Department to sue cigarette companies for 280 (b) billion dollars.
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The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that threw out a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA in a lawsuit that accused the Altria Group Inc. unit of misleading consumers about the risks from smoking "light" cigarettes.
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Tobacco companies fail in a High Court bid to overturn strict limits on advertising at the point of sale.
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In a major legal victory for Merck &amp; Co. in its massive Vioxx litigation, New Jersey's Supreme Court yesterday rejected a potential class-action lawsuit that could have cost the drug maker up to $18 billion.
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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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The US supreme court throws out a ruling that Philip Morris must pay $79.5m to the widow of a dead cigarette smoker.