Tobacco companies won a major victory Thursday as a federal appeals court ruled that lawsuits seeking economic damages due to their alleged deception about the relative safety of light cigarettes cannot be pursued as a class action.
Saying the “putative class action suffers from an insurmountable deficit of collective legal or factual questions,” the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in McLaughlin v. American Tobacco Co., 06-4666-cv, reversed Eastern District Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s decision to certify a class action brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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