1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458011803321

Autore

Haney Patrick Jude

Titolo

The Cuban embargo : the domestic politics of an American foreign policy / / Patrick J. Haney & Walt Vanderbush

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-8229-7271-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Disciplina

327.117

Soggetti

Economic sanctions, American - Cuba

Electronic books.

United States Foreign economic relations Cuba

Cuba Foreign economic relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820090603321

Autore

Eubanks Sharon Y.

Titolo

Bad acts : the racketeering case against the tobacco industry / / Sharon Y. Eubanks and Stanton A. Glantz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : APHA Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

0-87553-267-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GlantzStanton A

Disciplina

346.73038

Soggetti

Trials (Products liability) - United States

Products liability - Tobacco - United States

Civil RICO actions

Tobacco industry - Law and legislation - United States

Government attorneys - Washington (D.C.)

United States Trials, litigation, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

On January 20, 1999, President Bill Clinton announced in his State of the Union address that the Justice Department was planning to sue the tobacco industry and assigned the task to Attorney General Janet Reno and the Justice Department. This book is the story of that case - the politics, the litigation, the behavior of the industry and its lawyers, the efforts by the Bush Administration to gut the case, and the ultimate victory in court. Bad Acts tells the story, not yet fully revealed, of what was happening behind the scenes at the Justice Department as the case approached victory, when the