Jump to full article: Jerusalem Post, 2009-01-31
Author: JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Intro: A district court judge has agreed for the first time to certify a class action suit - for NIS 7 million - against a dance club in Tel Aviv for failing to enforce no-smoking laws . . .
The precedent-setting case will be heard in a few months by judge Michal Nadav, who ruled that the law has to be enforced even in relatively small clubs, to protect the rights of nonsmokers and to deter violators.
The Bella Shlomkin's pub, located on Tel Aviv's Rehov Noah Mozes, could be subject to payment of NIS 1,000 to each of more than 6,000 nonsmoking customers who visited the place on Friday nights - when special events were held there for Russian speakers - between January and August 2008.
Lawyer Amos Hausner filed the suit on behalf of Mark Litvin and his wife Yelena . . .
At a preliminary hearing this week, David Assaf, who does not know the plaintiffs, testified that he was ejected from the club by manager Ron Fire after asking that the incessant smoking of customers be stopped.
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