Smoking health effects scheme ruling [US SC] News
Smoking health effects scheme ruling [US SC]

USA, et al. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., US Supreme Court, May 22, 2009 [affirming a district court ruling that tobacco manufacturers conducted a scheme to deceive American consumers as to the health effects of their products through a pattern of mail and wire fraud]. Read the full text of the opinion [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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Archibald Cox fired as Watergate prosecutor in the "Saturday Night Massacre"

On October 20, 1973, Solicitor General Robert Bork fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox at the direction of President Richard Nixon after Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus had refused and resigned.