ban lawsuit nj smoking

New Evidence re Smoking in Movies

And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...

Read What the Judge Ruled, Then See The Docs Themselves

Indeed, objective readers can now see for themselves that these documents are not even material to the case at hand, let alone evidence that could prove the state's case,'' the statement said ...
Tobacco companies were expected to stall the release of the documents just as they did with the Liggett papers, Gentry said ...
Porter law firm memorandum regarding a possible public survey to show no need for stronger labelling on cigarette packaging regarding the dangers of smoking , the writers concluded that was a bad idea ...

Former NM Inmate Sues Prison Operators

But Weber said the court's release of the documents, both those from Liggett and possibly the Tobacco Institute papers, does not mean the jury will ever see them ...
A former inmate at the Santa Fe County jail has filed a lawsuit claiming he was subjected to "cruel and unusual punishment" when he was forced to breathe the secondhand smoke of other prisoners' cigarettes ...
There is a question of relevance and that has not yet been established,'' Weber said ...
First, Plaintiffs argue that because the avowed purpose of the Tobacco Institute was public relations and lobbying, the documents therefore do not involve attorneys rendering legal advice, but rather involve lawyers in lobbying, public relations and general business activities ...
Tobacco companies were expected to stall the release of the documents just as they did with the Liggett papers, Gentry said ...

Proposes Root Beer Smelling Cigarette

No explanation was given for the name ``kestrel,'' a small bird of prey that feeds upon rodents ...
The two-page memo -- from the files of the British American Tobacco Co ...
The handwritten, undated document, believed to have been written in the 1970s, will be presented as evidence at the trial, said Ron Motley, an attorney representing Florida in the lawsuit to recover the Medicaid costs of treating sick smokers ...

Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal

Moreover, the companies agreed, in writing, to assist Florida in enacting new laws designed to keep children from smoking ...
This would require the use of ``AMTECH technology, using ammonia to generate nicotine enhancement ...
The industry, meanwhile, avoided the massive negative publicity generated by a trial that would have opened up 40 years of damaging internal documents to a jury in a case that was set to be televised live while Congress and the White House were considering the national deal ...

2 CO Inmates File Secondhand Smoke Lawsuit

Second, Plaintiffs argue that if some of the documents actually contain legal opinions of counsel in connection with litigation, then the crime-fraud exception ...
The Supermax prison used to allow smoking in some individual cells, but that changed last September when all smoking there was banned ...
to prevent or delay further regulation of the tobacco industry, while at the same time individual industry members were internally writing such things as ...
From the TI documents we already have, we know they are far more important,'' he said, explaining that the tobacco companies launched a campaign to create the perception they did not want children to smoke, when in fact they were doing the opposite behind the scenes ...

California: Court Seeks Tobacco Law Clarification for Sick Smoker Suits

Smith said Grisham, of Los Angeles, had started smoking in the early 1960s, at age 13, attracted by tobacco company representatives who handed out cigarettes near her junior high school campus ...
The Florida settlement,therefore, should strengthen the resolve of other states and the U ...
The settlement is compensation for money Florida spent treating sick smokers and punitive damages for the industry's allegedly fraudulent conduct ...

WV Supreme Court Upholds Tobacco Verdict Rejecting Smokers' Medical Claims

The verdict was overturned by a state appellate court last year for reasons unrelated to the issue in Tuesday's request to the state Supreme Court ...
Apparently the tobacco cases are an exception to that rule,'' Weber said ...
Indeed, objective readers can now see for themselves that these documents are not even material to the case at hand, let alone evidence that could prove the state's case,'' the statement said ...
Plaintiffs' argument here is that the Tobacco Institute sought to portray a public position that was contrary to the individual defendant tobacco companies' private, internal position ...

FL Supreme Court to Review Reversal of $145 Billion Judgment in Smokers' Suit

Ajaj has been linked to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
It was the first smokers' lawsuit to be certified as a class action, a legal process that allows a small group of plaintiffs to sue on behalf of a larger group with similar complaints ...
This would require the use of ``AMTECH technology, using ammonia to generate nicotine enhancement ...

NJ: After 20 Years, Epic Tobacco Lawsuit Settled

The nation's cigarette companies on Monday agreed to pay Florida $ 11 ...
Like the others, Cipollone's case eventually crumbled in the face of endless appeals that have become the hallmark of tobacco lawsuit s ...
Santa Fe County Attorney Stephen Ross said Monday that it is his understanding that the county is considering making the jail a smoke- free facility ...
Even when he was near death, on morphine to ease the pain of cancer, Rossi pretended to drag on a cigarette ...
Filed in Newark in February 1984, it passed through the hands of four district judges, three magistrate judges and dozens of attorneys ...