Little v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that, at “all the risks associated with cigarette smoking were known to the ordinary consumer with ordinary knowledge common to the community.”
• recognizing health risks associated with cigarette smoking was “common knowledge” as to an individual who smoked from 1961 through 1995.
• describing challenge to applying judicial notice to deciding when the risks associated with smoking became common knowledge
• “The court concludes that by 1988 all the risks associated with cigarette smoking were known to the ordinary consumer with ordinary knowledge common to the community.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).