Impact Of ‘Corrective’ Signs On Retailers’ Rights Ordered In Tobacco RICO Case

(January 10, 2020, 1:36 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on Dec. 20 said the court will not relitigate the issue of whether tobacco companies must make “corrective statements” about their products in a 20-year-old RICO lawsuit but will instead require the United States and the tobacco companies to address how such statements will impact the rights of point-of-sale (POS) retailers (United States, et al. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., No. 99-2496, D. D.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 219390)....

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