The lawsuit, filed in Quebec Superior Court on 30 September 2005, targets Imperial Tobacco Canada, Rothmans Benson and Hedges and JTI MacDonald. It follows from a February decision by a Quebec Superior Court judge which upheld Cecilia Letourneau's right to go ahead with her giant class-action suit against the cigarette manufacturers. Letourneau's lawsuit claims that she, along with every other smoker in Quebec, had been misled about the dependency caused by the nicotine in cigarettes. The action is filed on behalf of all Quebecers over the age of 15 who smoked every day in September 1998, when Letourneau first sought permission from Superior Court to go ahead with her lawsuit. The lawsuit seeks $10,000 per person: $5,000 for moral damages and $5,000 in punitive damages.