The PDF is Here
EXCERPT:
ORDERED, that the hearing on point-of-sale displays scheduled by Order #35-Remand is removed from the Court’s Calendar.
END EXCERPT
Date Filed # Docket Text
01/28/2013 6002 ORDER #36-Remand granting 6001 the Joint Motion for Consent Order (see Order for details). Signed by Judge Gladys Kessler on 1/28/13. (CL, ) (Entered: 01/28/2013)
01/28/2013 6003 Transmission of the Notice of Appeal, Order Appealed, and Docket Sheet to US Court of Appeals. The Court of Appeals fee was paid this date re […]
The link is here: Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry [Paperback] by Sharon Y. Eubanks, Stanton A. Glantz
EXCERPT:
Bad Acts is a gripping day-by-day chronicle of what may well be the greatest trial ever on corporate wrongdoing. Sharon Eubanks writes in personal, direct terms about the challenges in taking on Big Tobacco […]
The PDF is Here
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For the reasons set forth in Plaintiffs’ Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment, and based on the Court’s review of both parties’ arguments and the agency record, it is this day of February, 2012 hereby
ORDERED that Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment [Dkt. #101 is GRANTED; […]
BACKGROUND:
On Sept. 21, 2011, oral argument was held in the United States District Court in Washington on RJR, et.al.’s request for a preliminary injunction against the FDA’s Final Rule, which mandated graphic warning labels. The FDA had been given the power to change the labels by the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act […]
Date Filed: 09/22/1999
Jury Demand: Both
Nature of Suit: 890 Other Statutory Actions
Jurisdiction: U.S. Government Plaintiff
Date Filed # Docket Text
12/23/2011 5960 NOTICE by R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY (Francisco, Noel) (Entered: 12/23/2011)
12/23/2011 DEPOSIT of Funds into registry of the Court on December 23, 2011, in the amount of $200,000.00. Receipt Number 4616044746 by RJ REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. (dr) (Entered: […]
The PDF is Here
EXCERPT:
Upon consideration of the Joint Motion for Consent Order Between the United States, the Public Health Intervenors (hereafter “Plaintiffs”), and Lorillard Tobacco Company (hereafter “Lorillard”) Concerning Document Disclosure Obligations Under Order #1015, and the entire record herein, it is hereby ORDERED that: . . .
II. Monetary Terms
A. Lorillard will deposit, on […]
On Sept. 22, 2009, 9 judges of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit turned down Defendants’ request for a rehearing of their appeal before all the judges of the Court. There’s only one option left for tobacco defendants now: the US Supreme Court.
The PDF is here.
Full text of the order:
I’ll have to post a precis of the argument in chunks. For now, I’ll try to quickly recap some of the industry’s position, as expressed by Michael Carvin in the first 1/2 hour of argument. This is by no means a complete recap of the issues. Yet, the wire services just don’t have room for […]
Imagine you’re in a strange, rough country. You see a boy being beaten unmercifully in the street by an older boy who is shouting, “Thief! Cheat! Liar!”
Thank goodness, you see 3 cops come to break it up. But the cops take the older boy’s word, and start hitting the child too, yelling, “You thief! […]