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Assuming the risk : the mavericks, the lawyers, and the whistle-blowers who beat big tobacco

Title: Assuming the risk : the mavericks, the lawyers, and the whistle-blowers who beat big tobacco / Michael Orey.
Author: Orey, Michael.
Publication: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., ©1999.

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Description

385 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Michael Orey recounts the unprecedented defeat of big tobacco. In 1985, Nathan Horton, a building contractor in rural Mississippi, developed a chronic ache in his left shoulder. A year and a half later, he was dead from lung cancer. In his final, painful months, Horton had filed suit against the manufacturer of the cigarettes he had smoked for more than thirty years. Horton, who was black, found a most unlikely lawyer to pursue his cause with near-religious zeal: Don Barrett, an arch-segregationist in his youth and an unapologetic defender of the Old South. When he took up his dying neighbor's case, Barrett knew full well that no tobacco company had ever paid a cent to anyone who claimed that smoking had harmed their health." "The individuals joining forces in Mississippi included a washed-up actor-turned-paralegal who copied thousands of pages of internal company documents; a Gulf Coast lawyer whose almost accidental foray into asbestos litigation had made him a multimillionaire; and the state's maverick attorney general, who authorized a pioneering suit against the tobacco industry to make it pay for the health care costs of smoking." "In detail, journalist Michael Orey tells how these people came together and did what no one else before them had: defeat the tobacco industry."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Mavericks, the lawyers, and the whistle-blowers who beat big tobacco

Subject

Genre/Form

Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A Toe in Tobacco -- "Things Up My Sleeve" -- Mississippi First -- Epilogue

ISBN

0316664898
9780316664899

LCCN

99020616

OCLC

ocm40862169
40862169
SCSB-9017123

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library