Sentence examples for smokers against from inspiring English sources

But some legal experts liken his action to the early lawsuits filed by smokers against the tobacco industry.

As many as 500,000 Florida smokers who are ill stand to benefit from the first class-action lawsuit to be brought by smokers against the tobacco industry.

Mr. Chesley negotiated on behalf of a group of plaintiffs' lawyers who had brought a series of class-action lawsuits by smokers against the tobacco industry.

[A1.] Judge Upholds Tobacco Verdict A Miami-Dade circuitcircuit judge upheld a jury's landmark award of $145 billion in punitive damages in a class-action lawsuit brought by sick Florida smokers against the nation's largest cigarette makers.

In the history-making class-action suit filed on behalf of some 500,000 Florida smokers against the tobacco industry, the jury believed the lawyer for the plaintiffs, a tall, lanky, balding, rumpled, studious man named Stanley Rosenblatt.

A18 Smoking Damage Award Stands A Florida trial judge upheld a jury's landmark award of $145 billion in punitive damages in a class action lawsuit brought by sick Florida smokers against big cigarette makers.

The Florida Supreme Court ruled today that a lower court had erred in overturning a $750,000 award for a former smoker against the nation's No. 3 cigarette maker.

The award to Mr. Cipollone in June 1988 was was the first granted by a jury in a lawsuit brought by a smoker or relatives of a smoker against the tobacco industry.

Concluding that a jury was moved by emotion rather than evidence, a judge on Wednesday reduced to nearly $39 million the $300 million in damages that had been awarded to a Florida smoker against Philip Morris USA.

After the $23.6 billion in punitive damages awarded last week by a jury in the lawsuit brought by the widow of a longtime smoker against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the amount at stake in retaliation lawsuits is simply too little to send a similar message to companies caught firing their employees.

In a landmark in the legal assault on tobacco, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday for the first time upheld a jury verdict in a damage suit brought by a smoker against a cigarette company.