Word: tobacco
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Students who took part, anonymously, in the largest study ever to examine undergraduate alcohol and drug use, described their use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine and other drugs. They also answered questions about personal health and academic performance...
...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 and disinformation...
...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...
Clearing the Smoke: Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law LAURENCE H. TRIBE successfully argued a case before the Supreme Court that paved the way for damage suits against the tobacco industry. Tribe represented the family of ROSE CIPOLLONE, who died of lung cancer...
Clearing the Smoke: Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law LAURENCE H. TRIBE successfully argued a case before the Supreme Court that paved the way for damage suits against the tobacco industry. Tribe represented the family of ROSE CIPOLLONE, who died of lung cancer...