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United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. [1] was a case in which the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held several major tobacco companies liable for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act [2] by engaging in numerous acts of fraud to further a conspiracy to deceive the American public about nicotine addiction and the health effects ...
The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was entered on November 23, 1998, originally between the four largest United States tobacco companies (Philip Morris Inc., R. J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and Lorillard – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "Majors") and the attorneys general of 46 states.
Philip Morris USA v. Williams , 549 U.S. 346 (2007), 556 U.S. 178 (2009), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States , which held that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment limits punitive damages , and ordered a lower court to reconsider its damages awards on that basis.
Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, and Lorillard. $206 billion The largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history occurred in 1998 between the attorneys general of 46 states ...
Health campaigners have written to U.S. regulators accusing Philip Morris International of misrepresenting past regulatory decisions, seeking to disrupt the launch of its flagship heated tobacco ...
The Philip Morris v.Uruguay case (Spanish: Caso Philip Morris contra Uruguay) was an investor-state dispute settlement case initiated on 19 February 2010 and concluded on 8 July 2016, in which the multinational tobacco company Philip Morris International (PMI), whose head office is located in Lausanne, [1] lodged a complaint against Uruguay that was resolved by international arbitration under ...
The Tobacco Papers document the beleaguered industry’s many efforts to make the most of the mentally ill market. Philip Morris ran an ad for Merit cigarettes that seemed to many mental health professionals to be targeted to schizophrenics themselves. The ad showed a double image of a pack of Merits and read, "Schizophrenic....
Which is why allies in the anti-smoking movement were surprised when in October he became CEO of the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World, a nonprofit created and entirely funded by Philip Morris ...