Think of the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against the tobacco industry as a legal moonshot: complex, unprecedented, historic–an undertaking that sets some of the government’s best minds to a task of national importance.

But although Justice Department lawyers have done their best to minimize the risks in the case, methodically thinking through innumerable scenarios, no one knows for sure whether the thing will fly until it’s too late to do anything about it.

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