News Stories Related To: Supreme Court opens with 'light' cigarette dispute
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His argument tracked a recent trend in the high court holding that products subjected to federal regulations are shielded from lawsuits filed under state law. In nearly every state,...
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- News Source: Gawker | 3 months agoYesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a class action case accusing the tobacco industry of fraud for its marketing campaign aimed at convincing the public that "light" cigarettes are safer. This just shows you how far we've come: 50 years...
- News Source: Tulsa World | 3 months agoMore than 45 million U.S. residents are smokers, and nearly 85 percent of them buy "light" cigarettes such as Marlboro Lights, which are advertised as having lower tar and nicotine. The Supreme Court, on the opening day of its term, heard arguments...
- News Source: USA Today | 3 months agoOn the first day of the Supreme Court's new term, the justices appeared receptive Monday to a tobacco lawyer's arguments that federal law blocks state lawsuits claiming fraud in the marketing of "light" and "low-tar" cigarettes. Lawyer Theodore Olson...
- News Source: Contra Costa Times | 3 months agoHis argument tracked a recent trend in the high court holding that products subjected to federal regulations are shielded from lawsuits filed under state law. In nearly every state, consumers who say they were fooled or cheated by a product maker can...
- News Source: Washington Post | 3 months agoAs the justices began their new term, they engaged in a spirited oral argument over a lawsuit filed in Maine by three smokers against Philip Morris USA and its parent company, Altria Group . Using internal company documents and supported in part by...
- News Source: The Mercury News | 3 months agoSmokers who say they were defrauded by tobacco companies that marketed "light" cigarettes faced a skeptical Supreme Court on Monday in the first argument of the court's new term. The justices accepted, some provisionally and others explicitly, that...
- News Source: United Press International | 3 months agoSupreme Court justices said the federal government may be partially to blame for a claim that cigarette companies deceptively call some smokes light. During oral arguments Monday in Altria Group et al vs Good et al, Justices Samuel Alito and Antonin...
- News Source: Turkish Press | 3 months agoLawyers for the biggest US tobacco maker went before the Supreme Court on Monday to argue that Washington is to blame if anyone felt tricked into thinking that light cigarettes are less dangerous than regular smokes. If the highest court in the...
- News Source: The Tribune | 3 months agohe Supreme Court returned to the stage Monday as justices weighed whether state laws can be used to challenge deceptive cigarette advertising. Against the backdrop of a presidential campaign, the high court opened its 2008-2009 term with a case...
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