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Daniel Clark Crosby, Jennifer Josefson, Sergey Komolov, Stephen J. Orava; King & Spalding LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 22, 2011, previously published on December 21, 2011 Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will create opportunities to increase exports of alcohol and tobacco products to Russia. On 16 December 2011, WTO Members accepted the terms of the Russian Federation’s accession. Russia will officially become a WTO Member 30 days...
| | UK Competition Law: Competition Appeal Tribunal Quashes OFT Decision on Tobacco Price Fixing Cartel: Smoke Without Fire
Juan A. Rodriguez; Sullivan & Cromwell LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 22, 2011, previously published on December 16, 2011 On December 12, 2011, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal quashed a decision by the Office of Fair Trading to impose a fine of £112.3 million on Imperial Tobacco Group Plc for allegedly being part of a price fixing cartel for tobacco products sold in the UK. However, this was not a classic situation...
|  | UK Appeal Tribunal Overturns Landmark Competition Decision
Becket McGrath; Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP;
Legal Alert/Article December 15, 2011, previously published on December 13, 2011 On 12 December, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal ('CAT') confirmed that it would allow all appeals against a decision of the Office of Fair Trading ('OFT') concerning pricing arrangements for the retail sale of tobacco products. This judgment follows the effective collapse of the OFT's case...
| | ALJ Gildea Denies Motion in Limine to Preclude Doctrine of Equivalents Argument in Certain Reduced Ignition Proclivity Cigarette Paper Wrappers (337-Ta-756)
Lisa M. Mandrusiak, Eric W. Schweibenz; Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.;
Legal Alert/Article November 23, 2011, previously published on November 18, 2011 On November 16, 2011, ALJ E. James Gildea issued the public version of Order No. 27 (dated October 28, 2011) in Certain Reduced Ignition Proclivity Cigarette Paper Wrappers and Products Containing Same (Inv. No. 337-TA-756).
| | RBC daily: Lidings has advised JTI on privatization
of a land plot under the Liggett-Ducat factory in Moscow
Tatiana Bicheva; Lidings;
Presentation November 21, 2011 Lidings, a law firm dedicated to providing legal support to foreign business in Russia, advised JTI, a major Japanese tobacco products manufacturer, in its privatization project of a large land plot under the “Liggett-Ducat” tobacco factory in Moscow.
| | Court Says First Amendment Bars Enforcement of FDA Graphic Cigarette Warning Rules
Crystal Kincaid, Tracy P. Marshall, Sheila A. Millar; Keller and Heckman LLP;
Legal Alert/Article November 11, 2011, previously published on November 10, 2011 In an important First Amendment decision, on November 7, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") rule requiring tobacco companies to display graphic images on cigarette...
| | Judge Leon Grants Preliminary Injunction- FDA’s Final Rule Requiring Graphic Warnings on Cigarette Packages Appears in Jeopardy
David B. Clissold; Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article November 11, 2011, previously published on November 8, 2011 As we previously reported, a group of five tobacco companies (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Commonwealth Brands, Inc., Liggett Group LLC, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc.) filed a complaint against FDA in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...
| | Pathways to Market for New Tobacco Products Begin to Take Shape
Ricardo Carvajal, David B. Clissold; Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article October 6, 2011, previously published on October 5, 2011 FDA issued two draft guidance documents that set out the agency’s thinking with respect to new tobacco products and the requirement to either demonstrate substantial equivalence under FDC Act § 905(j) or secure premarket approval under § 910.
| | Tobacco Companies Sue FDA Over Graphic Warnings Rule
Kurt R. Karst; Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article August 22, 2011, previously published on August 17, 2011 Earlier this week, a group of five tobacco companies (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Commonwealth Brands, Inc., Liggett Group LLC, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc.) filed a four-count Complaint against FDA in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia...
| | FTC: Sales, Advertising, and Promotion Decline for Cigarettes, Increase for Smokeless Tobacco
Ricardo Carvajal; Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C.;
Legal Alert/Article August 11, 2011, previously published on August 2, 2011 The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") issued the latest in a series of reports on sales, advertising, and promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco. The reports are based on data submitted to FTC by industry. The cigarette report states that the “total number of cigarettes...
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