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Langdell Professor of Law Phillip E. Areeda '51 represented Liggett Group in a dispute over predatory pricing...
Josiah S. Murray III, vice-president and general counsel of the Liggett Group tobacco company, said that Liggett did not offer Tribe any position but would not speak for the other cigarette companies involved. The tobacco firms Phillip Morris and Lorillord could not be reached for comment...
...repercussions of the case, ThomasCipollone V. Liggett Group Inc., could befar-reaching, according to Tribe. "If we win, itwill inaugurate an avalanche of similar cases," hesaid...
Murray of Liggett Group said he would notcomment on legal arguments while the case waspending. The two other companies could not bereached for comment...
Cipollone v. Liggett Group Inc. focuses on Congress's 1965 decision to require health warnings on cigarette packages. Tobacco companies argue that the labeling rule shields them from liability suits by pre-empting state personal-injury laws. Cipollone's attorney Marc Edell, representing her son Thomas, responds that "Congress never intended to prohibit suits that attack the inadequacy of the warning or the advertising practices of the cigarette manufacturers." At stake: potentially billions of dollars in damages from similar suits...