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...WASN'T I A TERRIBLE MAN WHEN WE BROUGHT them the wheelchairs that are getting them around?" asked Jerry Lewis on ABC's Prime Time Live -- a remarkably bitter const the cigarette industry. And for five years those companies have been trying to remove Sarokin from those cases. Last week they succeeded. In what it termed a "most agonizing" decision, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that Sarokin appeared biased against the cigarette industry. The court cited a February opinion in which Sarokin said that "despite some rising pretenders, the tobacco industry may be the king of concealment...
Tobacco-industry defendants expressed relief that Sarokin was no longer on the case. Said Charles Wall, a lawyer for Philip Morris: "We did not claim that he is not a good judge, but we believed he had prejudged some important issues in the litigation." Sarokin disagreed. Removing himself from another tobacco case last week, the judge delivered a strong rebuke to the court of appeals. "I fear for the independence of the judiciary if a powerful litigant can cause the removal of a judge for speaking the truth based upon the evidence," he wrote. "If the standard established here...
...legal bills soared past $250,000. Ominously for Morristown, Kreimer began scoring other legal victories: last April the New Jersey attorney general allowed Kreimer's petition to list "the streets of the fourth ward of Morristown" as a voting address. The following month, Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin struck down the library's rules of conduct as arbitrary and in violation of Kreimer's First Amendment rights. "If we wish to shield our eyes and noses from the homeless, we should revoke their conditions, not their library cards," Sarokin wrote...
Liggett plans to appeal the Cipollone verdict, contending among other things that the presiding federal judge, H. Lee Sarokin, was biased against the defendants. Says Arthur Stevens, Lorillard's general counsel: "We could not have had a more extreme adversary." In denying one of the tobacco industry's motions for dismissal of the case, Sarokin stated that he believed there was ample evidence of a "tobacco-industry conspiracy, vast in its scope, devious in its purpose and devastating in its results...
FOOTNOTE: *Ronald Schiavone also is pursuing a libel suit, against TIME (Donovan is not a party) involving an article published in 1982. New Jersey Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin dismissed the suit last November. A Schiavone appeal of the dismissal is expected to come up for argument in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals this fall...