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- 19th Conference of the Tobacco Products Liability Project - Announcement of conference for plaintiffs and the public health community only, scheduled for November 22-24, 2002 in San Francisco.
tobacco.neu.edu/conference/index.html
- Blaming Tobacco's Victims - Op-ed examines society's tendency to blame smokers, and explains why juries are less willing to do so: tobacco industry recruiting of kids, decades-long efforts to cloud the issue, and engineering of product for addiction.
www.tobacco.org/News/020708chapman.html
- Court TV - Tobacco on Trial - Presents several individual and class-action trials, with updates.
courttv.com/business/tobacco/tobaccoindex.html
- Court TV Online - Widdick v. Brown & Williamson - Presents the case of Roland Maddox and the background of "50 years of tobacco industry conspiracy".
courttv.com/trials/tobacco
- Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control - Summary and policy paper argues for litigation as a means to expose and roll back the deceit designed by the industry to influence public policy.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/litigation/200110francey.shtml
- Litigation and Public Inquires as Public Health Tools for Tobacco Control - Report in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.
tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?sid=69
- Long-Secret Documents Now Hurting Tobacco - LA Times article explores why once-secret tobacco industry letters, memos, and reports are hurting the industry in court and opening the eyes of the public.
no-smoking.org/may98/05-10-98-1.html
- Smoked Out - An essay by Harvard Law professor Kip Viscusi arguing that the settlement of the lawsuit against tobacco firms didn't penalize those firms, but instead penalized smokers, the so-called victims.
www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/857476.html
- The Jesse Williams Case - Summary of an individual case against Philip Morris.
www.stc-law.com/piwilliams.html
- The Tobacco Industry and Civil Liability - Policy position from the American Society of Addiction Medicine; opposes special protection in court for the tobacco industry.
www.asam.org/info/ama2.htm
- Tobacco Company Destruction of Documents - News item covers how BATco's destruction of documents in an Australian case may affect other tobacco litigation.
ash.org.uk/html/press/020411.html
- Tobacco Control Resource Center - The facts on big tobacco on trial, from the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
www.tobacco.neu.edu
- Tobacco Products Liablity Project - Information on tobacco trials for plaintiffs and attorneys; news and announcements; backgrounders for media and the public.
tplp.org
- Tobacco Trial Lawyers Association - Supports and represents those who fight on behalf of consumers injured or killed by tobacco. Membership is open to those with a substantial interest in fighting consumer cases.
www.ttlaonline.com
- WCCO Channel 4000 News: Tobacco on Trial - Extensive history of the groundbreaking Minnesota trial. Provides links into the record and testimony; documents key evidence and events in the trial.
www.channel4000.com/news/tobacco5.html
- Will Litigation Become Part of Public Health Arsenal in Canada's War Against Smoking? - Discussion of documents obtained through U.S. litigation against tobacco companies, and how it affects the potential for similar litigation in Canada. From the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-162/issue-11/1608.htm
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