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3 May 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Notwithstanding tobacco’s high death toll and damaging health effects, tobacco companies have survived hundreds of lawsuits challenging their promotion and distribution of a deadly drug, including Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. [read post]
27 Feb 2024, 10:30 am by Eugene Volokh
[The plaintiffs claimed that 15-year-old Bella Herndon committed suicide because of the film.] [read post]
20 Jul 2022, 6:58 am by Levin Papantonio
”Schultz underscores his point by referencing the infamous 1978 memo sent from an area sales manager to the president of the Lorillard Tobacco Company: “The base of our business is the high school student. [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 12:28 am by Bill Henderson
The main residence of Veraton, circa 1907. [read post]
4 Aug 2019, 10:03 pm by Chris Castle
 These fixes sound in our experience in regulating the tobacco industry, or “Big Tobacco. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 2:44 pm by admin
INTRODUCTION On September 28, 2004, the United States Supreme Court granted a property owner’s application for leave from a Connecticut Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the community’s taking of property with the specified purpose of creating jobs by selling the property to a private industrial user.1 As the petitioner land owners in Kelo express in their brief requesting leave, the critical question for the Court to determine is whether a taking for purely… [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 8:48 am by Moseley Collins
It was brought on behalf of states against several tobacco manufacturers. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 4:15 am by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone
Plaintiffs failed to state a cause of action for fraud, as they never alleged that they paid the allegedly fraudulent bills and suffered injury as a result (see Small v Lorillard Tobacco Co., 94 NY2d 43, 57 [1999]). [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 9:05 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Lorillard Tobacco Co., Inc., 94 N.Y.2d 43, 56, 698 N.Y.S.2d 615, 720 N.E.2d 892 (1999) (stating consumers who buy a product that they would not have purchased absent deceptive conduct, without more, have not suffered injury).http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default? [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 1:14 pm
"[W]hile the statute does not require proof of justifiable reliance, a plaintiff seeking compensatory damages must show that the defendant engaged in a material deceptive act or practice that caused actual, although not necessarily pecuniary, harm" (Oswego Laborers' Local 214 Pension Fund, 85 NY2d at 26; see generally Small v Lorillard Tobacco Co., 94 NY2d 43, 55-56). [read post]
17 Aug 2016, 9:21 am by Jennifer R. Scullion
Lorillard Tobacco Co., Inc., 94 N.Y.2d 43, 56 (1999) (consumers who buy a product that they would not have purchased absent deceptive conduct, without more, have not suffered injury)). [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 6:46 am by Joe Consumer
Tisch, also partly owned a leading cigarette company, Lorillard, and was a board member of both the Tobacco Institute and the Council for Tobacco Research, two entities that played a central role in misusing science to hide the risks of cigarettes. [read post]