Legal Opinion
Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided April 21, 1988No. Civ. A. 83-2864PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SAROKIN, District Judge.
FACTUAL BACKGROUND 1
The court will make no attempt to outline all of the evidence which has been submitted in this case, but concludes for the purposes of the pending motions that the jury could reasonably infer and find as follows:
Rose DeFrancesco Cipollone was born in 1925 and began to smoke at age 16, in the year 1942, while she was still in high school. She testified that she began to smoke because she saw people smoking in the movies, in advertisements, and looked upon it as something “cool, glamorous and grown-up” to do. She began smoking Chesterfields…
2Cases cited30 opinions
- Santor v. a & M KARAGHEUSIAN, INC.Supreme Court of New Jersey · 1965
- Ayers v. Township of JacksonSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1987
- Jewish Center of Sussex Cty. v. WhaleSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1981
- Palmer v. AH Robins Co., Inc.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1984
- Nappe v. Anschelewitz, Barr, Ansell & BonelloSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1984
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3Cited by28 opinions
- Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Haines v. Liggett Group Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1992
- Compaq Computer Corp. v. LaprayTexas Supreme Court · 2004
- Carlisle v. Philip Morris, Inc.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1991
- Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1990
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