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Jump to full article: New York Law Journal, 2000-05-01
Author: DANIEL WISE / New York Law Journal
Intro: State Supreme Court Justice Herbert Kramer will begin two days of jury selection in the first trial of a smokers' damage claims against the tobacco industry to take place in New York State.
On Wednesday morning opening statements are expected in the case of Clyde Anderson, a 56-year-old laborer with lung cancer, against five cigarette makers and two industry-sponsored associations.
The two chief protagonists in the courtroom battle in Anderson v. Fortune Brands Inc. 42821/97, which could last as long as three months, will be a former State Supreme Court justice who has successfully fought the pharmaceutical industry, and a Cleveland-based partner of one of the nation's largest law firms who has spent the better part of his career defending the tobacco industry.
Both men — former Queens Justice Leonard L. Finz, for Mr. Anderson and Stephen Kaczynski of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue for the lead defendant, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. — were ready to rumble as the trial approached last week.
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We've seen this collection of documents and experts before. It's the same story regardless of the plaintiff. We've just come from a trial in California where the plaintiff was a white woman. Here the plaintiff is a black man. It's the exact same story — a story in a box.
Stephen Kaczynski of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue for RJR. New York's Anderson trial gets under way this week. WISE, D., <I>First Tobacco Trial in State Begins</I>
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