{"id":200004,"date":"2007-06-11T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/11\/u-s-supreme-court-rules-against-philip-morris-jun-11-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-06-11T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T20:47:00","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-rules-against-philip-morris-jun-11-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/11\/u-s-supreme-court-rules-against-philip-morris-jun-11-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court rules against Philip Morris &#8211; Jun. 11, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good.  Hope they fry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/06\/11\/news\/companies\/altria.reut\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">U.S. Supreme Court rules against Philip Morris &#8211; Jun. 11, 2007<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Justices unanimously reversed a ruling allowing the Altria Group unit to transfer a class-action lawsuit to federal court from state court.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">June 11 2007: 11:59 AM EDT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8212; The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a class-action lawsuit against Philip Morris USA, a unit of Altria Group, should not be decided in federal court, handing a defeat to the tobacco company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The justices unanimously reversed a ruling that allowed Philip Morris to transfer the lawsuit to federal court from the Arkansas state court where it initially was filed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Video More video<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">CNN&#8217;s Allan Chernoff reports on the controversy sparked over a smoking ban in apartment buildings. (April 24)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Play video<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">At issue is a suit filed against Philip Morris by two Arkansas women alleging that the company engaged in unfair business practices in marketing its low-tar Cambridge Lights and Marlboro Lights cigarette brands.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good. Hope they fry. U.S. Supreme Court rules against Philip Morris &#8211; Jun. 11, 2007 Justices unanimously reversed a ruling allowing the Altria Group unit to transfer a class-action lawsuit to federal court from state court.June 11 2007: 11:59 AM EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8212; The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a class-action lawsuit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}