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This article presents information about lawsuits against mobile phone industry. The class action law suits are starting to pile up against mobile phone industry. In August of 2001, a 41 year old Maryland neurologist, Christopher Newman, claimed that his brain tumor was caused by his frequent cell phone usage, and served a $800 million suit against the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, Motorola, Verizon Communications Inc., Bell Atlantic and SBC Communications Inc. A similar lawsuit had been filed almost a decade earlier by Floridian David Reynard, who claimed that his wife's brain tumor was caused by her cell phone use. Reynard's claims and his subsequent appearance on the "Larry King" show, brought the issue to the public. While Reynard's suit was eventually dismissed for lack of evidence, the industry responded to public's concern by setting up a $27 million, six year research effort called Wireless Technology Research (WTR). Detractors soon accused WTR as being too cozy with industry instead of operating as the arms length organization it had promised to be.