Judge Certifies Nationwide Class Action Suit Against Tobacco Companies

TBO ^ | 9/20/02 | Christina Cheddar

[Great Dane]

People grow their own here in Ottawa, you can grow tobacco almost anywhere.

[concerned about politics]

We have a neighbor who grows it. That's why I support it. This is NY, upstate.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Here we go again,abuse of the legal system BY THE LEGAL SYSTEM!Steal from those with resources,now you know why a judge Is really a "BLACKROBED THIEF"and the courts are RAPING THIS COUNTRY.

[Dan Day]

The plaintiffs allege the tobacco industry's use of deceptive marketing practices caused smokers' sicknesses and addictions.

Wow, and all this time I thought it was the smoke that caused the sicknesses...

Now come to find out it was the marketing that was causing cancer and so on.

Amazing.

[samuel_adams_us]

next it will be automobiles, then bicycles, then the toaster. Americans are out to sue anything and everyone so that they don't have to work and be responsible for their own stupidity. When will the general populace learn that the only people they are hurting with these suits are themselves. They are destroying their own jobs, they families jobs and pulling the entire world down with them because they can't take responsibility for their own actions.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I posted an article today or yesterday concerning the millions a state is paying it's homeless. Why are those people permitted the opportunity to live their lives in part off tax revenues created by smokers? Smokers are not being given the choice to die to support the welfare recipients? And why are the tax consequences as well as health issues regarding the homeless being ignored?

[prisoner6]

It's like living in some counties in Florida

Ummm...you're giving me an idea...

I was born, raised and sadly wtill live in the Great Socialist State of Pennsylvania. In fact I'm in Pittbsurgh, Mother city of unionism and surrounded by democRATS.

I'm sure this has stressed me to no end, and shortened my life.

CAN I SUE THE DNC?

prisoenr6

[concerned about politics]

And why are the tax consequences as well as health issues regarding the homeless being ignored?

Because free cigarettes to the homeless buy Democrat votes?

[4CJ]

The case, known as Simon II, consolidates all the tobacco-related litigation before U.S. District Court Judge Jack Weinstein to include the punitive-damages claims of all types of plaintiffs, including individual smokers, labor unions and health insurers.

Didn't the tobacco companies fork over BILLIONS just a few years ago in a class action suit? And now another? Double jeopardy?

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Didn't the tobacco companies fork over BILLIONS just a few years ago in a class action suit? And now another? Double jeopardy?

The Leftist refused to accept the "first" National Security Act. How is this different?

[gcruse]

 all types of plaintiffs, including individual smokers, labor unions

Labor unions have been harmed by smoking?  Much like a market
reaching bottom when the holdouts finally give in and sell, having
the most corrupt organizations in the country piling on for their
piece of someone else's earnings surely must signal that
the end is near.

[drlevy88]

I'm disappointed. I thought the judge had certified it insane.

[yep willow its me fed]

Hmmm. Is it possible to file a class action suit against judges and lawyers for their dupilicity and political activism?

People get the lawyers and judges they deserve. If juries wouldn't give awards to these idiots it wouldn't matter what Judges/Lawyers say.

Lawyers and Judges are merely reflections of society.

[poet]

I can't argue with that. Same applies to the government, we get what we deserve.

[jjhunsecker]

I guess the thought is to extort money until the "turnip" is dry. I also thought the tobacco settlement of a few years ago would have taken care of this. The problem is that you have a mature industry that is shrinking, taxes primarly are the reason that cigarrette prices are increasing. The local and state governments rely upon the taxes collected for a certain percentage of revenue. Now comes along a new class-action lawsuit. Folks there isn't enough money to cover any more settlements. By making the retroactive year to 1920 you are including a vast group of people in this, are relatives of those who died of smoking related causes going to be able to be part of the class. If so there is no way there will be any monetary settlement on top of the those living to collect. This is just the lastest
scheme to shut down all the tobacco companies and once that happens the government will have to find a way to make up for all that lost tax revenue. And you got it, bend over!!