Archive for the 'Internal Industry Documents' Category

TOBACCO FILES REQUEST FOR STAY OF JUDGMENT

Friday, September 8th, 2006

On September 1, Defendants filed their motion requesting a stay of Judge Kessler’s Final Judgement and Remedial Order until an appeal can make its way through the courts.
The Defendants request that the “status quo” be maintained for the time being due to the “irreparable injury” that would result from implementation of many of Judge Kessler’s […]

SCHWAB Plaintiffs Seek to Disqualify Company Scientists’ Testimonies as “Junk Science” under Daubert

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

As previously scheduled, June 9 saw a flurry of filings in the Schwab case–31, to be exact, mostly the usual motions to exclude various witnesses’ testimonies.
But even Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein (E.D.N.Y.) must have been just a little taken aback to see the Hausfeld team asking him to exclude ALL of the […]

DOJ FILES PRAECIPE ON BATAS “DOCUMENT RETENTION” RULING

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

UPDATED TO INCLUDE LINK TO JUDGE KESSLER’S ORDER #880.
The DOJ has directed Judge Kessler’s attention to yesterday’s Australian court ruling on BAT Australia’s (BATAS) “document retention policy.” The ruling strongly meshes with DOJ’s characterization of it as a document destruction policy meant to limit BATAS’s liability should incriminating documents come to light. The […]