Guilbeault v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• asserting that \most of the courts considering the common knowledge of the general disease-related health risks of smoking have placed common knowledge at least at 1966\
• taking judicial notice of “the community’s common knowledge of the general disease-related health risks of smoking”
• “To establish a manufacturing defect, ‘a plaintiff must show a product defect caused by a mistake or accident in the manufacturing process.’ ” (Citation omitted.)
• 'most of the courts considering the common knowledge of the general disease-related health risks of smoking have placed common knowledge at least at 1966 and some before'
• plaintiff could proceed on design defect claim under Rhode Island law without showing safer alternative designs existed
• Under Rhode Island law, \a civil conspiracy claim requires the specific intent to do something illegal or tortious\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).