CINCINNATI -- Stanley Chesley, a class-action lawsuit pioneer who took on cigarette companies and the makers of faulty breast implants until his legal career ended amid accusations of unethical conduct, has died at age 89. Chesley died Sunday at a long-term care facility in Cincinnati, according to his son, Richard Chesley. He did not provide the cause of death. Chesley came into prominence after winning $50 million for victims of an electrical fire in 1975 at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky that killed 165 people. Aside from suing the nightclub, he also took on the aluminum electrical wire industry, an unprecedented approach at the time. Once among the nation's most powerful trial attorneys, he helped hammer out the $206 billion national tobacco settlement in 1998 and also won s

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