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008    971107s1998    nyuaf    b    001 0 eng   
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050 00 KF226|b.P75 1998 
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100 1  Pringle, Peter. 
245 10 Cornered :|bbig tobacco at the bar of justice /|cPeter 
       Pringle. 
250    1st ed. 
260    New York :|bH. Holt,|c1998. 
300    xii, 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "A Marian Wood book." 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-333) and 
       index. 
520    In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung 
       cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco 
       companies. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, an outraged country
       lawyer discovered the cost of lung cancer care as his 
       secretary's mother lay dying. In Washington, D.C., a young
       pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety 
       years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. 
       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. 
       Suddenly, an untouchable industry was under siege. In the 
       vanguard of the attack were the nation's toughest 
       liability lawyers. Thirty-nine states would ultimately 
       join the battle, seeking billions of Medicaid dollars 
       spent on tobacco-related diseases. The costliest civil 
       litigation in history had begun. The $50 billion tobacco 
       industry had finally met its match. Motivated as much by 
       anger as by greed, liability lawyers with noms de guerre 
       like "the Asbestos Avenger" and "the Master of Disaster" 
       outflanked and outsmarted the once invincible legal armies
       of Big Tobacco. In 1994, sixty of these lawyers came 
       together, pooling their talents, their time, and their war
       chests to launch a ferocious nationwide assault. At the 
       same time, they provided the legal muscle behind the state
       suits. Three years later, they had forced the industry to 
       the negotiating table. The result is a $368 billion deal 
       that will eventually change the way Big Tobacco does 
       business. 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. It moves from the 
       early skirmishes in rural Mississippi to strategy sessions
       in the back rooms of New Orleans restaurants, from a 
       warehouse in England stuffed with 9 million company 
       documents to the corridors of power in the nation's 
       capital. It follows the whistle-blowers who laid bare the 
       evidence that made the litigation possible, and it winds 
       through the offices of the state attorneys general whose 
       Medicaid lawsuits lent a halo of respectability to the 
       "junkyard dogs" of liability law. 
650  0 Trials (Products liability)|zUnited States. 
650  0 Products liability|xTobacco|zUnited States. 
650  0 Cigarette industry|xLaw and legislation|zUnited States. 
650  7 Cigarette industry|xLaw and legislation.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00861359 
650  7 Products liability|xTobacco.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01078418 
650  7 Trials (Products liability)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01156391 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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