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Bad acts : the racketeering case against the tobacco industry / Sharon Y. Eubanks and Stanton A. Glantz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eubanks, Sharon Y., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eubanks, Sharon Y., 1955-.
- Eubanks, Sharon Y.
- Philip Morris USA--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Philip Morris USA.
- United States. Department of Justice--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- Trials (Products liability)--United States.
- Trials (Products liability).
- Products liability--Tobacco--United States.
- Products liability.
- Civil RICO actions.
- Tobacco industry--Law and legislation--United States.
- Tobacco industry.
- Government attorneys--Washington (D.C.)--Biography.
- Government attorneys.
- United States--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : APHA Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On January 20, 1999, President Bill Clinton announced in his State of the Union address that the Justice Department was planning to sue the tobacco industry and assigned the task to Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department. This book is the story of that case - the politics, the litigation, the behavior of the industry and its lawyers, the efforts by the Bush Administration to gut the case, and the ultimate victory in court. Bad Acts tells the story, not yet fully revealed, of what was happening behind the scenes at the Justice Department as the case approached victory, when the
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-87553-267-5
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