Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll Announce Certification of Largest Class Action Ever.Light Cigarette Case May Proceed to Trial WASHINGTON -- The Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of today certified See certification. a class action that permits American who currently smoke, or ever did smoke "light" cigarettes, to proceed to trial with their claims that the tobacco companies conspired for decades to deceive TO DECEIVE. To induce another either by words or actions, to take that for true which is not so. Wolff, Inst. Nat. Sec. 356. the public regarding the health risks associated with light cigarettes. Today's ruling by Judge Jack Weinstein certifies the largest class action in the nation's history. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. lead attorney for the plaintiffs' Michael D. Hausfeld, "Judge Weinstein's decision is a landmark in the legal resolution of a massive fraud. Only a class action mechanism can provide a means of justice to the millions of affected smokers nation-wide." |
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