A group of Attorneys General representing 24 US states and territories filed an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday arguing that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Allyn Taylor of the Georgetown University Law Center says countries' efforts to protect their citizens from the public health danger of tobacco may suffer a chilling blow from a successful tobacco company lawsuit in Australia...On November 21,...
Second tobacco company challenges new Australia packaging law
A second major tobacco company, Imperial Tobacco, Ltd. , on Tuesday filed an action in Australia's High Court challenging the country's new tobacco packaging laws. Last month, Parliament approved the Tobacco Plain...
Tobacco company challenges new Australia cigarette packaging law
British American Tobacco (BAT) brought legal action in Australia's High Court on Thursday in response to the country's new tobacco packaging laws. Two weeks ago, Parliament enacted the Tobacco Plain Packaging...
FDA to appeal order blocking new tobacco warning label requirements
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday filed notice that it intends to appeal an injunction that blocked new graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. In early November, a judge for the US District...
Philip Morris sues to block new Australia tobacco label requirements
Philip Morris Asia Ltd. (PMA) on Monday initiated legal proceedings on behalf of its Australian subsidiary Philip Morris Ltd. against the Australian government to block new plain package labeling requirements for tobacco products...
The Australian Senate on Thursday passed the Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011 which requires that cigarettes be sold in generic olive green packages, without brands or logos. The packages will also have warnings of...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday granted a temporary injunction to block the implementation of new requirements of graphic image and textual warning labels imposed by the...
Canada high court rules rights tribunal cannot award legal costs
The Supreme Court of Canada Friday declared that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) does not have the power to award compensation for legal costs. The high court's 7-0 decision states that the language used...
JURIST Guest Columnists Micah Berman of New England Law | Boston, Kathleen Dachille of the University of Maryland School of Law, and Julie Ralston Aoki of William Mitchell College of Law say that the opinion in Sorrell v. IMS Health...