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No court anywhere in history, anywhere in the world, has ever allowed a claim like this to go forward.Kenneth J. Parsigian, who argued for the tobacco companies before a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against the suit by Belize, Ecuador and Honduras.
[The revenue rule] is obviously superseded by the plain meaning of the [RICO] federal statute. . . No doubt about it.Joel S. Perwin, lawyer for the Latin American nations.
Dade County is probably the very best place in the entire world perhaps for a smoker to sue a tobacco company, but Florida may be the worst place in the U.S. for a foreign government to sue the tobacco companies.Judge Paul Siegel of Miami-Dade Circuit Court, who will dismiss Ecuador's suit next week. KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE, <I>Florida judge refuses Ecuador's suit against cigarette-makers</I>