Shaw v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Decided August 15, 1997. Walter Evan Black Jr. wrote the opinion for the court.

973 F. Supp. 539 · Cited 66 times

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• Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. · 469 A.2d 867
• Mills v. International Harvester Co. · 554 F. Supp. 611
• Ghassemieh v. Schafer · 52 Md. App. 31
• United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · 484 U.S. 365
• Retail Clerks International Ass'n, Local 1625 v. Schermerhorn · 375 U.S. 96
• Yommer v. McKenzie · 257 A.2d 138
• Poffenberger v. Risser · 431 A.2d 677
• Martens Chevrolet, Inc. v. Seney · 439 A.2d 534
• Council of Co-Owners Atlantis Condominium, Inc. v. Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. · 517 A.2d 336
• Continental Casualty Co. v. Mirabile · 449 A.2d 1176
• Watson v. Peoples Security Life Insurance · 588 A.2d 760
• Frericks v. General Motors Corp. · 363 A.2d 460
• Virginia Dare Stores, Inc. v. Schuman · 1 A.2d 897
• Toy v. Atlantic Gulf & Pacific Co. · 4 A.2d 757
• Griesenbeck v. American Tobacco Co. · 897 F. Supp. 815
• McQuiggan v. Boy Scouts of America · 536 A.2d 137
• In Re Medimmune, Inc. Securities Litigation · 873 F. Supp. 953
• Sonnenreich v. Philip Morris Inc. · 929 F. Supp. 416
• Cantley v. Lorillard Tobacco Co., Inc. · 681 So. 2d 1057
• Rockstroh v. AH Robins Co., Inc. · 602 F. Supp. 1259
• Bonfield v. AAMCO Transmissions, Inc. · 708 F. Supp. 867

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