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“Revenue Rule” Barring of Foreign Suits Concerning Cigarettes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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References

1 Other suits have concerned alleged conspiracies by tobacco companies to misrepresent the health effects of tobacco products. See Sean, D. Murphy, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 94 AJIL 543 (2000)Google Scholar.

2 Attorney General of Canada v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, 268 F.3d 103, 109-13 (2d Cir. 2001) (footnotes omitted). For subsequent district court decisions in similar cases reaching the same result, see Ecuador v. Philip Morris Cos., 188 F.Supp.2d 1359 (S.D. Fla. 2002), and European Community v. Japan Tobacco, 186 F.Supp.2d 231 (E.D.N.Y. 2002).