THE BATTLE OF MINNESOTA
Document Discovery In The
1997 Minnesota Tobacco Litigation
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I. INTRODUCTION
Although any legal observer would tell you the prospect long loomed on the horizon, on July 14, 2000, when a Florida jury handed down a judgment of $144.8 billion dollars against the seven major tobacco companies , the mental shock of hearing such a figure was still staggering. It remains unclear as of this writing exactly how much of this massive verdict will ever be collected by the plaintiffs - a behemoth class of Florida smokers - injured by the products marketed, manufactured and sold by the defendants. In the days immediately following the judgement, the tobacco industry carried on business as usual and even the companies' stock prices remained largely unchanged .
Irrespective of the minimal immediate financial and social effects of this judgment,......
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