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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.
Dec 22, 2012
WTVO Channel 17 (Rockford, IL)
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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.
Dec 13, 2012
PR Web
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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.
Dec 20, 2012
AP - Associated Press
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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.
Dec 19, 2012
Rock River (IL) Times
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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
Dec 18, 2012
West Frankfort (IL) Daily American
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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.
Dec 14, 2012
Courthouse News
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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.
Aug 21, 2012
Korein Tillery
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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
Dec 14, 2012
Korein Tillery
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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.
Dec 13, 2012
AP - Associated Press
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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.
Dec 13, 2012
Madison County (IL) Record
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Dec 13, 2012 15:51