R.J. Reynolds News
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The new health regulator in charge of tobacco said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will begin to take action soon on major decisions from the effects of menthol to the marketability of newer products.
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The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a tobacco industry challenge to a federal law that requires bigger, graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and imposes new marketing restrictions.
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The U.S. Justice Department won’t ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that struck down rules requiring graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging.
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Star Scientific Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said they have settled their patent- infringement dispute over a way to reduce carcinogens in cigarettes.
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The Florida Supreme Court reaffirmed its 2006 “Engle” ruling that made it easier for thousands of smokers to sue tobacco companies for smoking- related illnesses.
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The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a $20 million award against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and a second cigarette maker, rebuffing the tobacco industry’s latest effort to derail thousands of Florida suits.
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After E. coli from a burger paralyzed 22-year-old Stephanie Smith, Michael Moss’s newspaper story tracing the meat’s origins helped win him a Pulitzer Prize in 2010.
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Analysts predict Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will pay $1 billion or more to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission fraud suit that triggered a 26 percent drop in the firm’s stock, Bloomberg News’s Jesse Westbrook and David Scheer report. Extracting such a record-setting penalty may be easier said than done.
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Florida’s Supreme Court declined to hear R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.’s appeal of a $28.3 million verdict in a case that the cigarette maker argued may affect thousands of so-called Engle tobacco claims in the state.
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Rambus Inc., which was sanctioned by a judge for destruction of documents in a U.S. chip-patent case with SK Hynix Inc., will only be required to pay what is defined as a reasonable royalty.
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