Light cigarette suit certified as class action
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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 nicotine in cigarettes is  habit-forming but is not the sole cause of addiction, a tobacco  company executive argued during testimony on Tuesday in the  government's $280 billion suit against cigarette makers.
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WASHINGTON - After five years of legal wrangling, the nation's largest cigarette-makers are meeting federal lawyers in court for the trial phase of the government's record $280 billion civil racketeering suit against the tobacco industry.    The government alleges the industry conspired to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking and the addictive nature of nicotine, and illegally targeted children through marketing campaigns...
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Florida Supreme Court judges on Wednesday questioned attorneys for smokers and cigarette companies on whether a case involving thousands of smokers can properly be tried as a class action.
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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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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court threw out a $79.5 million punitive damages award to a smoker's widow Tuesday, a boon to businesses seeking stricter limits on big-dollar jury verdicts. The 5-4 ruling was a victory for Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA, which contested an Oregon Supreme Court...
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New York City can file a revised racketeering lawsuit accusing Internet cigarette sellers of evading the city's steep taxes through computer sales to Big Apple smokers, a judge ruled on Thursday.
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Philip Morris USA, a unit of Altria Group Inc, said on Tuesday that it had filed two federal lawsuits against Web site operators, saying they were selling illegally imported cigarettes bearing its own and the Marlboro trademarks.
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A California appeals court has  ruled that a smoker's record-breaking $3 billion punitive  damages award against Philip Morris was still "excessive" even  after being reduced by a trial judge to $100 million and must  be halved again.
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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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The California Supreme Court approved class-action status Thursday for a suit accusing Sav-on Drug Stores of illegally denying overtime pay to some of its employees.
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LOS ANGELES Punitive damages of 100 (m) million dollars awarded to the family of a man who sued tobacco giant Philip Morris have been slashed in half by a state appeals court in Los Angeles.
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MONTREAL - The Canadian arm of a huge tobacco company has asked a Quebec court to stop a provincial lawsuit claiming $1.4 billion in unpaid taxes on smuggled cigarettes.
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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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Sears Holdings is facing a class-action lawsuit after&#160;making the purchase history of its customers public&#160;on its Managemyhome.com Web site.
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Retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co has been  hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status that alleges a  company Web site compromises customers' private information.
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Retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co has been hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status that alleges a company Web site compromises customers' private information.