Word: tobacco
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...manufacturers, faced with the possibility of lawsuits similar to those that have hit the tobacco industry, are cooperating with the government in a campaign to prevent "straw purchases" of firearms...
...Thursday, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (www.nssf.org), the powerful firearms industry trade association, announced that it was joining with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to sponsor "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," an attempt at preventing gun purchases by girlfriends, brothers, buddies or paid middlemen at the behest of felons barred from gun ownership...
Industry officials are also keenly aware that acts of omission will be rich fodder for the army of plaintiffs' lawyers and state attorneys general who are itching to go after the gun industry the way they took on Big Tobacco...
...bring those suits? Any one of the 500,000 or so Florida smokers who have been harmed by tobacco automatically belongs to the class action. If the case approaches a conclusion favorable to smokers, trial lawyers Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt in Miami, who are class counsel, will organize the plaintiffs...
...meantime, Judge Robert Kaye will issue his final judgment on the jury's verdict. He will probably lower the penalty in order to stay within a Florida law that prevents juries from bankrupting defendant companies. The tobacco companies will ask him to overturn the verdict. Most likely he won't. Off to the appellate court, where the defendants will ask that the class be decertified, as other tobacco class actions have been before it. The case will be heard in Florida's Third District Court of Appeals and, from there, the state supreme court. Both have green-lighted parts...