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Read [Peter Pringle Book] * Cornered: Big Tobacco At The Bar Of Justice Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Cornered: Big Tobacco At The Bar Of Justice It moves from the early skirmishes in rural Mississippi to strategy sessions in the back rooms of New Orleans restaurants, from a warehouses in England stuffed with 9 million company documents to the corridors of power in the nation's capital. In Washington, D.C., a young pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. Thirty-nine states would ultimately join the battle, seeking billions of Midicaid dollars spent on tobacco-relate
| Title | : | Cornered: Big Tobacco At The Bar Of Justice |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00ME4GX3I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 233 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
A Customer said Good background - but limited to Mississippi Lawsuit. This book was obviously well researched, and contains an excellent summary of the litigation history basically starting with the initial leaked Merrill documents through the Mississippi settlement. There is also some coverage of the Caprione lawsuit. The books strength and value is how well it lays out the solid legal foundation for the current wave of lawsuits.I liked the cov. "Free At Last - No Choice Until Now" according to A Customer. Imagine reading and finding that disease you have had or developed wasn't one you had chosen to have?. Imagine a substance freely sold nation wide and in fact world wide, totally subsidized by a humane society and government to wit U.S.A. and deliberatly concealed by both as one which the user 'chose' to kill them selves with being at last freely described as 'addictive'. Dest. "Great Story about Modern Day Gunslingers" according to John G. Griffin. Interesting read about how a diverse group of attorneys took their diverse viewpoints and their greed to forge an alliance which brought Big Tobacco to the table.
Investigative journalist Peter Pringle meticulously details the entire complicated trial in Cornered, and his countless interviews with the major players allow him to paint vivid portraits of the lawyers and lawmakers, many of them brandishing egos as large as the settlement itself. On the other side, mounting their attack, sat 65 of the most famous and feared trial and personal-injury lawyers in the country--complete with monikers such as "The King of Torts," "The Master of Disaster," and "The Asbestos Avenger"--who were willing to pool their resources, talent, and expertise (and attempt to table their competitiveness and often their hatred for one another) in order to reap the massive payoff that the $50 billion dollar industry could supply. Moore, later joined by 39 other states' attorneys general operating on a different front, sought to go after the tobacco i
It moves from the early skirmishes in rural Mississippi to strategy sessions in the back rooms of New Orleans restaurants, from a warehouses in England stuffed with 9 million company documents to the corridors of power in the nation's capital. In Washington, D.C., a young pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. Thirty-nine states would ultimately join the battle, seeking billions of Midicaid dollars spent on tobacco-related diseases. At the same time, they provided the legal muscle behind the state suits. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, an outraged country lawyer discovered the cost of lung cancer care as his secretary's mother lay dying. In the vanguard of the attack were the nation's toughest liability lawyers. Motivated as much by anger as by greed, liability lawyers with noms de guerre like "the Aspestos Avenger" and "the Master of Disaster" outflanked and outsmarted the once invincible legal armies of Big Tobacco. Three years later, they had forced the industry to the negotiating table. Cornered is the first full account of this unprecedented legal battle. It uses confidential memos to explain how the companies avoided government regulation and legal redress for so many years. All three were warned: Don't mess with Big Tobacco.Then a $9-an-hour law clerk in Louisville, Kentucky, stole thousands of incriminating tobacco company documents. In 1994, sixty of these
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