13/04/2008
» Second Circuit Rejects Class Certification in "Light" Tobacco Litigation -- Consumer Law & Policy Blog
Light cigarettes provoking purchase do to percieved health improvements is not worthy enough for class-action status apparently:
‘Last Thursday, the Second Circuit issued McLaughlin v. American Tobacco Company, No. 06-4666 (2d Cir. Apr. 3, 2008), reversing Judge Jack Weinstein’s certification of a class including virtually all Americans who had purchased cigarettes labeled as “light” or “lights.”’
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