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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.
A source close to the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against TikTok and the other social media firms told Fortune that the tobacco litigation is an apt parallel to the current situation. In particular ...
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The lawsuit was filed by the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, Action on Smoking and Health, and the National Medical Association. Neither HHS nor the FDA immediately responded ...
The suits mirror earlier ones against Big Tobacco and Purdue Pharma, legal experts told BI. TikTok is facing lawsuits from 14 state attorneys general who say the company's algorithm harms children.
Recently, there has been mixed success for plaintiffs in tobacco litigation. In Florida, a large class action lawsuit was rejected, because the court argued that each individual case must be proven. [25] As a result, thousands of individual lawsuits were filed against tobacco companies, but many of these verdicts are now in appeal. [26]
Bank of America took a hit owing to its 2008 acquisition of Merrill Lynch in 2013, when Merrill Lynch agreed to pay $160 million to settle a class-action racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a ...
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 ...