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Tobacco Control Resource Center - http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/
The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. |
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Tobacco Products Liablity Project - http://tplp.org/
Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public. |
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19th Conference of the Tobacco Products Liability Project - http://tobacco.neu.edu/conference/index.html
Announcement of conference for plaintiffs and the public health community only, scheduled for November 22-24, 2002 in San Francisco. |
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Tobacco On Trial - http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com/
Weblog covers the history of Department of Justice trial against the tobacco industry. Features trial updates, transcripts, original reporting, analysis, and behind the scenes interviews. |
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Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association - http://www.ttlaonline.com/
Supports and represents those who fight on behalf of consumers injured or killed by tobacco. Membership is open to those with a substantial interest in fighting consumer cases. |
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Interview with G. Robert Blakey - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/interviews/blakey.html
In an interview, Robert Blankey, a former federal prosecuter and the author of the federal RICO statute, compares the cigarette industry to the Mafia and recommends using RICO laws to criminally prosecute the tobacco industry. |
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Big Tobacco's Nemesis - http://www.sptimes.com/2003/04/17/TampaBay/Big_Tobacco_s_absolut.shtml
Howard Acosta has sued tobacco companies about 150 times, without earning a penny, but he's no quitter. |
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Are Punitive Damages Enough - http://www.sptimes.com/News/082601/Columns/Are_punitive_damages_.shtml
Columnist comments on a trial outcome, summarizes the judge's decision and reasoning. |
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Court TV - Tobacco on Trial - http://courttv.com/business/tobacco/tobaccoindex.html
Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates. |
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Long-Secret Documents Now Hurting Tobacco - http://no-smoking.org/may98/05-10-98-1.html
LA Times article explores why once-secret tobacco industry letters, memos, and reports are hurting the industry in court and opening the eyes of the public. |
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Blaming Tobacco's Victims - http://www.tobacco.org/News/020708chapman.html
Op-ed examines society's tendency to blame smokers, and explains why juries are less willing to do so: tobacco industry recruiting of kids, decades-long efforts to cloud the issue, and engineering of product for addiction. |
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Tobacco Litigation Worldwide - http://www.shdir.no/vp/multimedia/archive/00001/IS-1004_1701a.pdf
130 page report from the Norwegian Directory for Health, Department for Tobacco Control. |
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A Tobacco Lawsuit Primer - http://slate.com/id/1005187/
Article describes the different types of litigation outstanding against tobacco companies. |
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Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare - http://www.ahc.umn.edu/commnews/June98/junepg2.htm
Profile of Cheryl Perry, an epidemiology professor at the University of Minnesota, who become an expert in the industry's own words on promoting cigarettes to children. |
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Statement of Professor G. Robert Blakey - http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/te090501f-blakey.htm
Notre Dame Law School professor outlines the case against the tobacco industry in both lay terms and legal prose. |