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NYC Proposes Raising Age for Cigarette Purchases
No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city.Libby's lawyer ends year on high note
Correction appended: Please see below for a correction to this story.PREPARING TO DEFEND I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in a trial scheduled for Jan. 16 leaves Theodore V. Wells Jr. little time to reflect on his career these days. But if he could, he would only need to consider the past 12 months to come up with a list of accomplishments longer than what most attorneys would hope to achieve in a lifetime.Justices rule against public employee who lost job
WASHINGTON AP-Individual government workers generally cannot make a constitutional case out of their workplace discrimination claims, the Supreme Court said Monday in a ruling that leaves public employees with fewer legal options than those in the private sector.The case before the court concerned arbitrary employment decisions that do not involve race, gender or other categories that are explicitly protected by federal law.DOJ Spars with Tobacco Companies Over 'Forced Public Confessions'
Tobacco company lawyers are challenging the proposed language of public statements that the U.S. Department of Justice wants cigarette manufacturers to distribute to minimize the chance that the companies will make false claims in the future about the health effects of smoking.Illinois county hopes Vioxx verdict helps it shed pro-plaintiff reputation
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. AP Judicial watchdog Ed Murnane long has been critical of Madison County's reputation as a plaintiff's paradise in big-money lawsuits, and he knew changing that would take baby steps.So it was little wonder that the Illinois Civil Justice League's chief was encouraged by what happened here Tuesday: A jury rejected a widower's request for tens of millions of dollars in damages against Merck Co.DOJ spars with tobacco companies over 'forced public confessions'
Tobacco company lawyers are challenging the proposed language of public statements that the U.S. Department of Justice wants cigarette manufacturers to distribute to minimize the chance that the companies will make false claims in the future about the health effects of smoking.High court reveals a mind for business
FOR YEARS, IF NOT DECADES, leading U.S. Chamber of Commerce lawyer Robin Conrad has told anyone who will listen that a conservative Supreme Court is not always a pro-business Supreme Court. For example, conservative Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas have never been able to find, in their copies of the Constitution, any basis for limiting high punitive damage awards that are the bane of the business community.Applying 'Morrison': Statutory 'Focus' and 'Context'
George T. Conway III, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, analyzes two important questions about 'Morrison' and the presumption against extraterritoriality: The first relates to how Morrison distinguished between what is extraterritorial and what is not; the second involves how the presumption applies to criminal cases.Oral arguments can be deceiving. In October our reporter Tony Mauro wrote that the U.S Supreme Court appeared to be siding with Altria Group in a lawsuit brought by Maine smokers testing whether they could bring false advertising claims regarding "light" cigarettes in state court. Mauro, who knows as much about the high court as almost any observer, wrote that Altria's lawyer, Theodore Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, appeared to convince the justices that the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act preempted this suit because it involved smoking and health claims. In contrast, he wrote, the plaintiffs' lawyer, David Frederick of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, "struggled to persuade the court that this suit was about consumer fraud and deception, and thus was not preempted."
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