Legal Opinion
Benedict v. Altria Group, Inc.
District Court, D. Kansas
Decided March 30, 2007No. 05-2306-CMPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
O’HARA, United States Magistrate Judge.
I. Introduction
This is a “tobacco” case, but not of the personal injury variety. Highly summarized, the legal claims in this case are that the defendants, Philip Morris USA, Inc. (“Philip Morris”), and its corporate parent, Altria Group, Inc. (“Altria”), violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act (“KCPA”), K.S.A. § 50-623 et seq., and that defendants were unjustly enriched, by marketing “Marlboro Lights” and “Cambridge Lights” brands of cigarettes as being lower in tar and nicotine than regular cigarettes. The factual allegation upon…
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