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Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal Of Oregon Union Lawsuit Against the Tobacco Industry 

"Courts across the nation have been finding that the plaintiffs' basic legal theories are without merit, regardless of how their claims are stated," said Charles A. Blixt, executive vice president and general counsel for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. "These rulings show that these lawsuits are a waste of judicial time and taxpayer money. These decisions by federal appellate courts demonstrate that courts will not let plaintiffs stretch case law to unrecognizable proportions in pursuit of claims that have no basis in law or fact. The opinion supports our belief that third-party cases of this type are based on contrived legal theories that don't deserve to be tried in court."

More than a dozen cases of this type have been dismissed by courts across the country, including these recent decisions:

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