JUDICIAL PLAIGARISM
August 1st, 2003
BY PHILIP FINE
ARGUMENTS over why a $145 billion (£90.6 billion) class-action suit needed to be thrown out were so compelling that the three Florida judges who agreed and decertified a 700,000-plus smoker class-action suit used the tobacco companies' own words in their judgment. Now Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt, the
lawyers who represent the smokers are crying judicial plagiarism. They stated in a motion that 59 pages of the 68-page opinion were an almost verbatim replication of tobacco's appellate briefs, without a single attribution. While no judicial laws ...
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