Sentences with phrase «claims against tobacco companies»
In 1998, Jan was appointed Special State's Attorney General of Missouri in claims against tobacco companies.
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In August 2011, however, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government claiming that requiring the gnarly warnings to accompany their product will violate their free speech rights, cost millions of dollars to print, and require them to feature anti-smoking advocacy more prominently than their own brands.
«I conclude that all the claims of Imperial [Tobacco] and the other tobacco companies brought against the government of Canada are bound to fail,» Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the long, complex, and unanimous 9 - 0 judgment.
Represented the United States in UNCITRAL Rules proceedings under NAFTA defending against a Canadian tobacco company's claim that the master tobacco settlement between forty - six United States states and major tobacco companies violated the expropriation and national treatment provisions of NAFTA.
In its defence of two actions against Imperial Tobacco, one being litigation by British Columbia for health care costs incurred by BC to treat illnesses caused by tobacco usage, and the second being a claim by class members who bought «light» or «mild» cigarettes, Imperial Tobacco sought to add Canada as a third party, based on statements Canada made to tobacco companies and the public about the purportedly lesser risk of «light» reduced - tar cigarettes as compared with normal cigarettes.