Grisham v. Philip Morris U.S.A., Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a cigarette smoker’s reliance on tobacco companies’ misrepresentations of the addictive nature of cigarettes was unreasonable once she suspected she was addicted to cigarettes, as evidenced by her decision to join “Nicotine Anonymous”
• stating that tolling is available where the defendant has committed fraud
• explaining fraudulent concealment tolling “will last as long as a 15 plaintiff’s reliance on the misrepresentations is reasonable”
• personal injury claim for a tobacco company’s misrepresentation accrued at the time that “the physical ailments themselves were, or reasonably should have been, discovered”
• personal injury claim for a tobacco company’s misrepresentation accrued at the time that “the physical ailments themselves were, or reasonably should have been, discovered”
• personal injury claim for a tobacco company’s misrepresentation accrued at the time that “the physical ailments themselves were, or reasonably should have been, discovered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).