business law?

Question

1. What is the legal basis for most of the current lawsuits? Negligence? Product Liability? Breach of Contract?
2. What are the defenses being argued by the tobacco industry?
3. Are the lawsuits being filed in Federal court, or in state courts, or both?
4. What kinds of results are you finding at the trial level? on appeal?
5. Which side is winning, the Plaintiffs or the tobacco industry

Answer 1

1. To answer this accurately you'd have to look at statistics compiled by the court systems in each of the states and nationwide... and some don't compile them at all.
2. That consumers were warned of the risks, and elected to smoke anyway, and, further, that their products have not been deceptively advertised.
3. Both.
4. Some win, some lose.
5. Both sides have won major cases, and the tobacco industry has done reasonably well on appeal. However, there are still multi-billion dollar judgments and settlements on which the tobacco companies are paying.

Answer 2

1. No. "most current lawsuits" is a meaningless phrase, unless you are talking pure statistics and then it becomes a matter of what particular geographic area you wish to sample.

2. long story, complicated legal issues. But most boil down to "assumption of the risk".

3. lawsuits are filed in both state and federal courts. Which lawsuits are you talking about?

Are you talking just about tobacco lawsuits, or are you asking about business law in general? Your question is unclear.

Answer 3

Do your own homework.