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 […]
After enduring today’s events, we have come up with a few tips to help expert witnesses who are testifying:
1) Read everything you have ever written on your topic and imagine how it could possibly be interpreted against you (for example, how it could be cast by the defense to make you look self-contradictory or […]
Dr. Dean Krugman, an expert in Mass Marketing and Marketing Communication, was a witness this afternoon for the DOJ, presenting several 6-inch thick, wire spiral-bound books containing 11″ x 17″ color copies of every cigarette ad that ever ran in Rolling Stone magazine from 1974-October 2004. A huge color Rolling Stone magazine cover featuring […]
“In a nonjury trial scheduled to start here on Tuesday in Federal District Court, the government is seeking to strip the companies - disgorgement, in legal terms - of $280 billion that Justice Department lawyers say was earned through fraud. As the largest civil case ever prosecuted under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations […]
“The government opens arguments in its $280 billion civil racketeering lawsuit against the cigarette industry tomorrow, with the future of big tobacco in the balance. In the biggest civil racketeering case in history, the Justice Department alleges massive, coordinated fraud to conceal tobacco’s deadly and addictive nature….”
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