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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This suit should spark debate about whether state-sponsored class action suits are causing the legislative branch to cede its regulatory responsibilities to the court system. In the case of tobacco litigation, states accused the cigarette makers of evading legal regulation by concealing the effects of smoking...
...north, to Piqua, Ohio, which offered $2 million in incentives. In July, the company informed its 66 hourly employees in Dayton, many of whom had worked at the plant for years--their average age was 52--that their jobs would be terminated in three days. According to the suit, Hobart staffed the new location with part-time workers--average age 34--from a temporary firm...
When federal prosecutors asked John D. Rockefeller for financial data in the suit that broke up Standard Oil, his lawyer's response was brief and to the point: "I'll see you in hell first." Microsoft hasn't been that dismissive of its own high-profile antitrust suit, but it's come close. Vice chairman Steve Ballmer declared, "To heck with Janet Reno," last year. And earlier this month a supremely self-assured Bill Gates told a meeting of 2,000 Microsoft shareholders that "the facts simply don't support the government's claim...
...software industry made government regulation irrelevant. But the beast refused to die. "If I'm counting it right, [that's] the sixth time during the trial that Microsoft has pronounced the government's case dead," said chief Justice Department attorney David Boies, veteran of that other antitrust suit that wouldn't lie down -- the one against IBM. "The government's case is very much alive...
...really think tobacco companies were going to foot the bill for that $206 billion payout to the states? Kings-of-smokes Philip Morris and RJR announced Monday that they would be raising cigarette prices by 45 cents a pack. The rest of the Big Five are expected to follow suit -- this despite analysts' calculations that the 25-year settlement could be paid for with increases of only 35 to 40 cents...