Laschke v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that failure to warn and conspiracy to commit fraud claims were preempted for acts after 1969 but determining that strict liability design defect claim survived motion for summary judgment
• reversing grant of summary judgment on the plaintiffs’ civil conspiracy claim finding that “the date of the last act done in furtherance of the conspiracy present[ed] a question of fact not proper for resolution on summary judgment”
• “In claims alleging conspiracy, the critical date for statute of repose purposes should be the date of the last act done in furtherance of the conspiracy.”
• “In claims alleging conspiracy, the critical date for statute of repose purposes should be the date of the last act done in furtherance of the conspiracy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).