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[Florida] Starbucks set to ban smoking within 25 feet of stores
In a letter posted at a local Starbucks, the company says it will no longer allow customers to smoke within 25 feet of its stores. Joshua Martin's weekly routine after a hard day's work is relaxing on Starbuck's patio in San Marco with a coffee and ciga
May 29, 2013
WJXT-Channel 4 (Jacksonville, FL)
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May 31, 2013 11:56
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[Florida] Starbucks set to ban smoking within 25 feet of stores | News - Home
In a letter posted at a local Starbucks, the company says it will no longer allow customers to smoke within 25 feet of its stores. Joshua Martin's weekly routine after a hard day's work is relaxing on Starbuck's patio in San Marco with a coffee and ciga
May 29, 2013
WJXT-Channel 4 (Jacksonville, FL)
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May 31, 2013 11:56
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Florida to participate in World No Tobacco Day
The Florida Department of Health is participating in the World Health Organization's 26th annual World No Tobacco Day, which is Friday.
May 29, 2013
Seminole Chronicle
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May 30, 2013 01:24
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[Florida] BECK: In Smoking Cases, Interminable Delay Is the Real Due Process Violation
On Monday, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. filed a reply brief in an appeal it brought before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In Walker v. RJR ... Given that the Engle ruling is now seven years old, this due process issue should have been s
May 22, 2013
AmericanLawyer.com
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May 23, 2013 03:31
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[Florida] Appeals court overturns tobacco settlement due to Duval judge's 'critical misunderstanding'
ruled that a Duval County judge used flawed logic in 2011 when awarding a Jacksonville family nearly $15 million ... there has to be evidence that “addiction was the legal cause” of a disease, which the 1st District Court of Appeal said was not the case w
May 20, 2013
Florida Times-Union
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May 20, 2013 09:11
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[Florida] Plainitffs' Firms Push 11th Circ. To Uphold Engle Findings ($$)
More than 30 law firms representing plaintiffs in Engle tobacco litigation urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to reject R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s contention that the cases violate its due process rights, arguing that such a finding would threaten t
May 9, 2013
Law360
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May 15, 2013 08:47
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[Florida] Vector Group Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
The Engle progeny cases remained a primary focus of our litigation activity, with 4,523 cases currently pending in both federal and state court. Although we and the other industry defendants continue to believe that the Engle process is materially flawed
May 1, 2013
Seeking Alpha blog network
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May 13, 2013 04:14
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[Florida] Fla. Court Throws Out $17M Award Against Big Tobacco ($$)
A Florida appeals court on Friday reversed a $16.8 million judgment against Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. for the family of a woman who died of smoking-related diseases, ruling a trial court had prematurely declared her a member of
May 10, 2013
Law360
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May 13, 2013 04:12
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[Florida] Reservation for nonsmoking room should have been honored
This is a clearcut case of a hotel offering a product and failing to deliver. But things aren't always so defined. I checked into a Hampton Inn in Van Buren, Ark., recently, and had a nonsmoking room, but it was on a smoking floor. When my kids walked int
May 11, 2013
Everett (WA) Herald
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May 11, 2013 13:42
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[Florida] LETTER: Tobacco award sends wrong message
there are no innocent parties in this lawsuit. The $1.2 million award should go toward the treatment and counseling of nicotine addicts who realize their life would be better by not smoking and take the first step to quit
May 9, 2013
Palm Beach (FL) Post
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May 10, 2013 12:11