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Autore: | Eubanks Sharon Y. |
Titolo: | Bad acts : the racketeering case against the tobacco industry / / Sharon Y. Eubanks and Stanton A. Glantz |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, District of Columbia : , : APHA Press, , 2013 |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
Disciplina: | 346.73038 |
Soggetto topico: | 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.) | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Trials, litigation, etc |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Bad acts |
ISBN: | 0-87553-267-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464561003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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