Tobacco trial heads for big showdown
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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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A Pennsylvania town's efforts to crack down on illegal immigration will be challenged by civil rights campaigners in a landmark federal trial beginning on Monday that could signal whether such local laws across the country can stand up to legal challenge.
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A judge is considering if tobacco companies should be tried on whether they deceived smokers about the safety of light cigarettes.
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Scotland's pubs and clubs are to take legal advice to see if they can challenge plans to ban smoking in public places.
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This round of corporate trials is focusing on bad behavior and loose ethics. Key prosecution witnesses are being grilled about their drug use, tax problems and sex lives in an attempt to undermine their credibility.
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The Supreme Court yesterday overturned a nearly $80 million verdict intended to punish the Philip Morris tobacco company for endangering the lives of smokers, and the justices set limits on how jurors can decide to make big business pay for wrongdoing.
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Ministers could be facing legal challenges over Holyrood's proposed smoking ban.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Philip Morris and lawyers who won a ten-(B)billion-dollar judgment against the company are fighting again. The cigarette maker on Monday asked the Illinois Supreme Court to disqualify a Chicago
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TALLAHASSEE - Lawyers for as many as 700,000 ill and dying smokers urged the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to restore a record-shattering $145 billion verdict against the tobacco industry, or at least a portion of it.
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Judges to rule on a case that could change the way alcohol and tobacco is bought within the European Union.
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Cigarette makers have revved up  price promotions in recent years, a strategy they know will  lead to more underage smoking, an economist testifying in the  U.S. government's racketeering trial against the industry said  on Wednesday.
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A US lawsuit, claiming tobacco firms  duped smokers into thinking low tar cigarettes are less harmful, gets the go ahead.
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TORONTO (CP) - Retailers, cigarette manufacturers and advocates for the rights of Canada's smokers were mobilizing Wednesday for a long, arduous battle over the Ontario government's stringent new crackdown on smoking.
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A group of heavy Marlboro smokers have filed a lawsuit in federal court in Boston, asking Philip Morris USA to pay for screenings that may detect the early stages of lung cancer, court documents showed on Friday.
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Major cigarette makers went on trial  on Tuesday in the U.S. government's $280 billion case, which  charges the tobacco industry with deliberately deceiving the  public about the risks of smoking since the 1950s.
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Encysive gets set for a showdown with the FDA.
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A legal challenge to the government's smoking ban in England will be launched at the High Court.