Jump to full article: CBS MarketWatch, 2005-03-09
Author: Carolyn Pritchard, MarketWatch
Intro: Altria Group said late Wednesday that a San Diego judge has decertified the class action known as the Brown case.
The case was based on claims that advertising and promotion by the nation's major cigarette manufacturers targeted minors and deceived smokers into purchasing so-called "light" cigarettes.
The court dismissed those claims in November 2004, the tobacco company said in a statement. . . .
Altria (MO) said the decertification came after the judge found that the November 2004 voter referendum known as Proposition 64, which mandated that "the only private plaintiffs with standing to prosecute such statutory claims are those who have suffered injury in fact and lost money or property as a result of the defendant's alleged conduct" applied to the case.
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