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Don’t revisit corporate money in judicial elections | -40 | 2016-03-28 00:00:00 | If the Supreme Court is interested in revisiting the issue of campaign contributions and the appearance of judicial bias, it has a vehicle. This new reality is well known to the U.S. Supreme Court. And the justice’s remark to a reporter about the system’s “distortion,” according to Philip Morris, was simply Karmeier’s reaction to the money his opponents spent on negative ads. '”The Supreme Court has already heard arguments in one recusal case this term, Williams v. Pennsylvania. Moreover, according to Philip Morris, any problems of public perception were from the $2 million in attack ads aired by plaintiffs lawyers opposing the justice’s re-election in 2014. | PM | {"Alison Frankel"} | 1171 |
Court condemns tobacco giant Philip Morris over secret bid to sue Australia | -11 | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 | But big tobacco firms including Philip Morris have launched legal challenges against such laws, arguing the rules impinge on their trademark intellectual property. An international tribunal has unveiled a secret ruling confirming it rejected a bid by tobacco giant Philip Morris to sue Australia over its plain packaging laws, calling the attempt “an abuse of rights”. Canberra had welcomed the decision saying “plain packaging is a legitimate public health measure”. In its heavily redacted 186-page ruling dating from 17 December 2015, the permanent court of arbitration said it had no jurisdiction over the case brought by Philip Morris. Australia wins international legal battle with Philip Morris over plain packaging Read moreIn 2012 Australia became the first country to mandate that cigarettes must be sold in plain packages, in an attempt to reduce smoking rates. | PM | {"Agence France-presse"} | 1173 |
Philip Morris's vision of cigarette-free future met with scepticism | -11 | 2016-11-30 00:00:00 | While Calantzopoulos claimed Philip Morris was shifting away from cigarettes, he also defended the company’s role in smoking-related health problems. “I don’t think Philip Morris invented cigarettes. He said the company’s new iQos product, which heats tobacco but does not burn it, releases fewer toxins and is capable of replacing cigarettes in the long term. UK-based rival British American Tobacco makes e-cigarettes under the Vype brand and this month launched a competitor to iQos called glo. Philip Morris, which has its headquarters in New York and runs its international operation from Switzerland, sold 847bn cigarettes in 2015 and had group revenues of $26.8bn (or $73.9bn including excise tax). | PM | {"Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett","Angela Monaghan","Rob Davies"} | 1174 |
Thai prosecutor charges Philip Morris Thailand in cigarette imports case | -11 | 2016-01-19 03:58:28+00 | The case involves cigarettes imported by Philip Morris Thailand from the Philippines between 2003 and 2007, the prosecutor told reporters. Philip Morris Thailand said the charges were unjust. BANGKOK Thailand's prosecutor has charged the local unit of Philip Morris International of under-reporting the value of imported cigarettes, which led to tax revenue losses of about 20 billion baht ($551.27 million), the attorney-general said. A 2010 ruling by the World Trade Organization said that Thailand had no grounds to reject the import price of cigarettes from the Philippines, and Thailand has previously lost a case over the issue. In addition to the company, seven Thais were also charged, as well as four foreigners who were outside the country, they added. | PM | {"Amy Sawitta Lefevre Aukkarapon Niyomyat"} | 1176 |