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9 Dec, 2008 6:48 pm
Interesting paid-advertisement op-ed by Lorillard Tobacco Company in the Opinion section of today's Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, I can't find the ad online, so I'll have to type from my paper copy. The
headline is "No Choice, No Freedom." Lorillard...
27 Feb 7:46 am
... County Circuit Court, a woman whose mother died in a 2006 fire is suing a tobacco company and the
landlord of the property where the fatal accident occurred. Dawn Bunch's Maryland ... and her mother, Linda Ford, lived and Lorillard
Tobacco Company. Bunch is accusing the tobacco
company of acting negligently when it manufactured, sold, and brought cigarettes ... can be held liable under Maryland's premises liability
law. Landlord, tobacco firm sued in woman's death, The Herald-Mail, February 25, 2009 ...
8 Aug, 2007 5:06 am
... explained at page 17, "Plaintiffs' unfair competition claim here seeks to impose on defendant tobacco companies a duty not to
advertise in a way that could encourage minors to smoke. That is precisely the duty that the United States Supreme Court in Lorillard … held
subject to FCLAA preemption because it is necessarily and inherently based on concerns about smoking and health. Accordingly, plaintiffs' unfair competition claim is ...
1 Sep, 2006 5:53 am
... & Williamson Tobacco Corp., both individually and as the successors to the American Tobacco
Co., Lorillard Tobacco Co. and Liggett Group Inc. In a hearing in June, the companies asked
U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns to ... . In his order filed Monday, Stearns said the case was a reprise of claims brought by the federal government in the 1990s against
tobacco companies. "These efforts by the government came largely to naught, with most courts rejecting the government's various theories
of ...
9 Nov 12:17 pm
... Control Act. In his decision, Judge McKinley saw no reason to block the provision while the lawsuit is ongoing. The tobacco
companies were naturally disappointed in the ruling, while the FDA spokeswoman Kathleen Quinn states in the AP article that ... attempt to keep FDA from enforcing crucial public
health legislation.'" According to Floyd Abrams, an attorney representing Lorillard (maker of Newport brand cigarettes), Judge McKinley must
ultimately determine if each regulation being challenged by ...
28 Sep, 2004 8:14 pm
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday that California's tough anti-smoking advertisements do not violate the First Amendment rights of
tobacco companies. Attorneys for tobacco companies RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Lorillard Tobacco Co. argued that because the
tobacco giants were being forced through excise taxes to pay for the ads in part, their right to not
1 Sep 3:53 am
[JURIST] Several US tobacco companies, including R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard [corporate
websites], filed a federal lawsuit [complaint, PDF] Monday challenging a new tobacco regulation law on First Amendment grounds. The lawsuit,
filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky [official website], challenges portions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act [text
18 Apr, 2006 12:46 pm
[JURIST] The attorneys general of New Jersey and California [JURIST news archives] said Tuesday that they will file a lawsuit against tobacco
manufacturers over payments they allege are due to them under the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) [text]. New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber [official profile] said the
state's lawsuit [NJ AG news release] against R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard [
20 Aug 8:34 am
... prejudicial trial plan. From beginning to end, this case was marked by legal rulings that should be reversed on appeal" Imagine a cigarette company denying their product had anything at all to do with the death of a smoker. Apparently, Philip Morris and Altria do not ... Tobacco). I don't believe that nicotine or our products are addictive. MR. TISCH (Chairman and CEO of Lorillard
Tobacco Company). I believe that nicotine is not addictive. MR. HORRIGAN (Chairman and CEO of Liggett
Group). I believe ...
31 Aug, 2007 1:00 pm
... Altria Group, Inc. (Phillip Morris), No. 06-1965. This is probably pretty major. As you know, the cigarette companies market "light" cigarettes. Some people believe that
"light" means "less deadly" and others think it is ... the manufacturers over reporting the results of various tests of whatever is in the cigarettes. Applying the plurality opinion in
Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S. 504 (1992) (and distinguishing Lorillard Tobacco
Company v. Reilly, 533 U.S. 525, 121 S.Ct. 2404, 150 L.Ed ...
3 Aug, 2007 6:00 am
... competition claim here seeks to impose on defendant tobacco companies a duty not to advertise in a way that could encourage minors
to smoke. That is precisely the duty that the United States Supreme Court in Lorillard, supra, 533 U.S. 525, held ... is predicated on
allegedly misleading advertisements, not on the problem of truthful marketing to minors. According to the Supreme Court in Tobacco II
(preemption), the FCLAA does not preempt state-law claims that "[seek] to regulate cigarette advertising ...
2 Aug, 2007 10:58 am
... that the UCL claim is preempted: We summarize: Plaintiffs' cause of action against defendant tobacco companies is based on two laws:
Penal Code section 308 (which does not itself ... minors and encourages them to begin smoking. As the United States Supreme Court made clear in Lorillard, supra, 533 U.S. 525, the FCLAA preempts any state law or cause ... , has been superseded by the high court's later decision in Lorillard, and Mangini is therefore overruled. In re Tobacco Cases II, ___ Cal.4th ___ (Aug. 2, ...
3 Sep 11:18 pm
... .J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., maker of Camel cigarettes, and Lorillard Inc., which sells the Newport
menthol brand, filed the federal lawsuit with several other tobacco companies...It is the first major challenge of the legislation
passed ... about the "marketing provisions." "My expectation is that this lawsuit will be ultimately unsuccessful," said Ed Sweda, a lawyer for the Tobacco Products Liability Project in Boston, pointing to previous laws limiting cigarette advertising and marketing that have ...
2 Dec, 2008 12:10 pm
... the class-action Engle case. The findings in the case, named for a Miami Beach pediatrician, Howard Engel, established that a) Tobacco
companies were negligent; b) Their products are defective and unreasonably dangerous; c) Cigarettes are ... and others. Smokers who got sick from 1990 to 1996 were eligible to
file suit naming R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, The American Tobacco Co, Philip Morris and Lorillard. Re-proving negligence established by the Engle case will not have to be addressed ...
17 Oct, 2007 6:00 am
... conclusion that certain claims advanced under Unfair Competition Law regarding advertising by tobacco companies to minors are
preempted by federal law. Supplemental briefing is to proceed as follows: The parties ... hazards and addictiveness of cigarette smoking" in addition to "their targeting of minors." In
re Tobacco II Cases, 142 Cal.App.4th 891, 896 (2006) (review ... citing Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S. 504, 528-29 (1992);
Lorillard, 533 U.S. at 552). Also, the representative plaintiffs ...
22 Apr 6:00 am
... Tallahassee. According to an article from tampabay.com, Senate Bill 2198 caps the bond Big Tobacco would have to set aside in case they
lose the cases filed by about 8, ... bills. This was very good news for Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco, and Lorillard, which will be allowed to use the system against the injured. Chalk this up to a corporate ... Florida at Farah and Farah can help and inform you
about liability findings against the tobacco companies. Call 1-800-533-3555 for a case evaluation.
2 Oct 12:08 pm
... Altria, formerly known as Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds, Liggett Myers, and Lorillard go along with the administration's plan, enacted by
Congress, to allow FDA regulation ... well as government-run health insurance? Because it set the tobacco companies up forever. Because
FDA regulation of tobacco establishes a cartel, an oligopoly in which new competitors ... do not contain tobacco and do not generate combustion products. Let's roll that back: Some people, who cannot overcome their nicotine addiction ...
18 Dec, 2008 11:30 am
... U.S. Supreme Court Affirms First Circuit Decision Reinstating Class Action Against Tobacco Companies Holding District Court Erred in
Dismissing Class Action Challenging Advertising of "Light" ... "low tar" descriptors was expressly preempted by the FCLAA. See Brown v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 479 F.3d 383 (5th Cir. 2007). The Supreme Court granted certiorari ... in Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 505 U.S. 504 (1992) and
Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly, 533 U.S. 525 (2001). Id. The First ...
15 Nov, 2008 6:30 pm
... , Jr., United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, sitting by designation. CLAY, Circuit Judge. Plaintiffs, Lorillard
Tobacco Company, Phillip Morris USA Inc., and R.J. Reynolds Company, brought this interpleader action ... recipients of four annual $125 million payments that Plaintiffs agreed to pay as part of an attorneys' fee
agreement related to the 1998 tobacco settlement. Florida Counsel, five law firms that represented the State of Florida in the tobacco litigation, appeal ...
20 May, 2008 3:24 pm
... of trademark infringement and fraud asserted against Elston Self Service Wholesale Groceries, Inc. by Lorillard Tobacco Company. It is alleged that Elston advertised cigarettes purporting to be genuine Newport brand cigarettes
when they were ... ambiguous. The court reached an equivalent result in analyzing the "misappropriation of advertising ideas" coverage. It concluded: Lorillard's Amended Complaint alleges that advertising and sale of falsely-labeled counterfeit cigarettes deprived Lorillard ...
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