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     Truelies Side Hero Username: Truelies Post Number: 5429 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 74.237.6.152 Rating: N/A |
June 2002: A District Court in Kansas awarded $15 million in punitive damages against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco after calling the company's conduct "highly blameworthy and deserving of significant punishment." (David Burton vs. R.J. Reynold's Tobacco) June 2002: A Miami jury held three cigarette companies liable for $37.5 million in a lawsuit involving an ex–smoker who lost his tongue to tobacco–related oral cancer. (Lukacs vs. Philip Morris) October 2002: A Los Angeles jury issued $28 billion in punitive damages against Philip Morris. This was later reduced to $28 million. (Betty Bullock vs. Philip Morris) 2003: A Madison Country, Illinois jury awarded $10.1 billion against the tobacco company Philips Morris for deceptive cigarette advertising in a class action led by attorney Stephen Tillery (Price v. Philip Morris). 2004: A New York jury issued $20 million to the wife of a long-term smoker who died of lung cancer at the age of 57. This was the first time that a New York court had held a tobacco company liable for an individual smoker's death. (Gladys Frankson vs. Brown and Williams Tobacco Corp) 2007: Philip Morris USA v. Williams led to the US Supreme Court to tell the Oregon Court of Appeals to reconsider its earlier judgment and lower the case's punitive damages amount in light of State Farm v. Campbell. The appeals court ultimately upheld their original damages. 1992: In Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. the US Supreme Court held that the Surgeon General's warning did not preclude suit by smokers against tobacco companies on several claims, and that the federal laws on tobacco regulation aren't worded to override state laws. 2008: The Altria Group v. Good US Supreme Court case said that state law is not preempted by a federal law regarding cigarette advertisement regulations. 1995: The Supreme Court of Canada in RJR-MacDonald Inc. v. Canada (Attorney General) upheld the constitutionality of the federal Tobacco Products Control Act, but struck out the provisions which prevented tobacco advertising and unattributed health warnings. 2005: In Imperial Tobacco v. British Columbia the Supreme Court of Canada found that the provincial Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, which allowed the government to sue tobacco companies, was constitutionally valid. | ||
| Truelies Side Hero Username: Truelies Post Number: 5428 Registered: 05-2012 Posted From: 74.237.6.152 Rating: N/A |
america ki kothaga vachava.....?? there are multiple cases where people sued tobacoo companies for smoking related health damages and received millions of $$$. | ||
| Don_draper Junior Artist Username: Don_draper Post Number: 167 Registered: 12-2012 Posted From: 68.34.82.195 Rating: N/A |
Inka nayam le, gun tho kalchesi gun companies ni sue cheyaledhu  | ||
| Blackmamba Moderator Username: Blackmamba Post Number: 23480 Registered: 05-2010 Rating: N/A |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257466/Five-inmates -suing-major-beer-wine-producers-1BILLION-say-alcohol-break- law-weren-t-warned-addictive.html Five Idaho men who ended up in prison on charges ranging from manslaughter to drug possession say alcohol is to blame for their crimes, and now they want beer and wine companies to pay up. The inmates at the Idaho State Correctional Institution south of Boise filed a lawsuit seeking $1billion in damages against eight of the world’s biggest beer and wine manufacturers, claiming that they should have been warned that the beverages can be addictive. |
