WASHINGTON — The massive civil racketeering case against big tobacco companies that wrapped ... be what she can do about it. The 67-year-old judge, a Clinton appointee, must deal with two ...

"We don't know what's in those documents but given the fight that tobacco's put on to protect ... Appeal refused Wednesday to overturn a trial judge who ruled in April that the eight industry ...

RICHMOND, Va.RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge on Thursday said she won’t delay an order in a 12-year-old lawsuit against the tobacco industry while other courts decide newer cases challenging ...

Derek White was convicted of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and profiting from organized crime for not paying federal excise tax on tobacco that was imported from the United States. A judge ...

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered Big Tobacco to include on their cigarette packages product warnings that the industry lied to the public about the health effects of smoking and ...

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's health effects ...

a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The ruling sets out what might be the harshest sanction to come out of a historic case that the Justice Department brought in 1999 accusing the tobacco companies ...