This is a long way from being final.
This ruling upholds California's authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.
We are confident that the trial court will find that the penalty is appropriate and not excessive ... Good faith and RJR are mutually exclusive.
On its face it seems like an outrageous invasion of people's privacy.
It's beyond money. The power provided under this contract is critical to supply stability. We cannot afford in California to take even one step back to a reliance on the spot market.
We're always considered an island when we're getting reamed at the pump and we question whether we should now be integrated as part of the larger system (when that system is in crisis), ... You can't have it both ways.
It's not infrequent for local district attorneys to take the lead on fraud investigations. Obviously, that kind of a unit is closer to the community and closer to the problem.
It seems pretty outrageous. We are still in the preliminary stages of determining ... what criminal and civil laws could be involved. On its face, it appears the conduct poses a substantial privacy and ID-theft problem.
We are still figuring out how to deal with that.
The federal government has no authority to prevent California, or any state, from requiring warnings that provide truthful, important information to consumers.
