Legal Opinion
Small v. Lorillard Tobacco Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 26, 1999PublishedCited by 336 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wesley, J.
These consolidated appeals encompass five proposed class action suits. They are brought by plaintiffs alleging that defendants individually and collectively deceived them about the addictive properties of cigarettes and fraudulently induced them to purchase and continue to smoke cigarettes.
The trial court determined that class certification was a statutorily authorized method to adjudicate the multiplicity of claims. After the court found that plaintiffs pleaded valid causes of action against defendants and that their claims were not preempted by the Federal…
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