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NATIONAL L.&W _0UgNAI_ Monday, August 14, 19_9
Abstract
N~W YOI~K -- Three tobacco companies have won a feder~al appeals court ruling that gives them access to raw data developed in cancer rese~xch studies. American Tobacco Co., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris CoL wanted access to cancer research from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the American Cancer Society ~s it relates to tobacco use and asbestos exposure. Mount Sinai School ol M~lt~ne ~. The American Tobacco Go., 89-7317.
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- 27 Jan 2005
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- 5397. Box 16 - Contents - News Clips - 6/89 - 12/89
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NATIONAL L.&W ~0UgNAI~
Monday, August 14, 19~9
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Cancer Data OK'd
For Tobacco Firms
N~W YOI~K -- Three tobacco companies have
won a feder~al appeals court ruling that gives
them access to raw data developed in cancer
rese~xch studies.
American Tobacco Co., R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris CoL wanted
access to cancer research from the Mount Sinai
School of Medicine and the American Cancer
Society ~s it relates to tobacco use and asbestos
exposure. Mount Sinai School ol M~lt~ne ~. The
American Tobacco Go., 89-7317.
The appeals court, ruling July 21, upheld a
lower court decision that found the appellants
in civil contempt for reftming to comply with
witness subpoenas in depositions in connection
with several pending cases. LeJeu~ v.
Arm~trwng World Industries, 86-0~21 (W.D.I.~).
The appell~mts claimed access to the data
would burden them, but the court said that "did
not outweigh the tobacco companie~° interests
in obtaining research data."
American Tobacco attorney Donald I.
Strauber of New York's Chadbourne & Parke
said the ruling means researchers have to
comply with discovery.
Appellants' attorney, Michael A. Cardozo of
New York's Proskauer Rose Goetz &
Mendelsohn, said his clients' disagreed with the
ruling and were studying their options.
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