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[Illinois] City Approves Additional Fees For Tobacco Shops.

Tobacco shop owners are up in arms after the city approves a price hike for renewing tobacco licenses. The original fee was 145 dollars, but now the city has approved the hike, the fee will be 600 dollars.
WTVO Channel 17 (Rockford, IL)
added Dec 23, 2012 22:17
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[Illinois] Korein Tillery to Appeal Light Cigarette Ruling

The historic Price v. Philip Morris “light” cigarette fraud case is once again heading back to the Illinois appellate courts to determine the fate of a $10.1 billion verdict handed down in 2003.
PR Web
added Dec 23, 2012 21:44
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[Illinois] Cigarette blamed in deadly southern Ill. blaze

A fire official says a house fire that killed a woman in the southern Illinois city of Benton was sparked by a lighted cigarette.
AP - Associated Press
added Dec 20, 2012 05:48
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[Illinois] City council pushes tobacco license fee increases back to April

Rockford City Council moved at its Dec. 17 meeting to delay the renewal date for tobacco licenses following complaints from retailers about a 1,141 percent increase in the annual fee.
Rock River (IL) Times
added Dec 20, 2012 01:08
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[Illinois] Smoking identified as cause of fatal fire

Benton fire chief Gary Kasper said smoking was the cause of the Dec. 13 fire that claimed the life of Joni Rae Ziegler, 56. He said Ziegler reportedly was smoking while sitting in a chair in the front bedroom
West Frankfort (IL) Daily American
added Dec 19, 2012 03:27
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[Illinois] $10 Billion Tobacco Case is Dead

A multibillion-dollar class action against tobacco giant Philip Morris cannot be reopened, a Madison County judge said.
Courthouse News
added Dec 14, 2012 12:14
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Korein Tillery Tells Judge: Reinstate $10 Billion Verdict against Tobacco Company Because It Misled Illinois Supreme Court, 21 August 2012. (PDF)

asks a judge ... to reinstate the landmark $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris for deceptive advertising of so-called "light" cigarettes because the company factually misled the Illinois Supreme Court when it overturned the verdict in 2005.
Korein Tillery
added Dec 14, 2012 03:08
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[Illinois] Practice Areas > Tobacco Litigation

Korein Tillery has filed numerous class action and individual cases against the nation's three largest tobacco companies - Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and Brown & Williamson - based on their marketing and sale of so-called "light" cigarettes. While oth
Korein Tillery
added Dec 14, 2012 00:59
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Illinois judge rejects bid to revive cigarette lawsuit

It was not immediately clear Thursday whether Stephen Tillery, the St. Louis attorney who pursued the lawsuit involving so-called "light" and "low tar" cigarettes, would appeal Madison County Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth's ruling.
AP - Associated Press
added Dec 14, 2012 00:54
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[Illinois] Ruth denies petition to reopen Price v. Philip Morris

Madison County Circuit Judge Dennis Ruth on Wednesday denied a petition seeking to reopen a 12-year-old lawsuit over “light” cigarette labeling.
Madison County (IL) Record
added Dec 13, 2012 15:51
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