Legal Opinion
Brown v. Philip Morris Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 17, 2001No. 99-1931UnknownCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROTH, Circuit Judge:
Mentholated tobacco products apparently pose greater health risks than non-mentholated ones. Plaintiffs, a group of African-Americans, brought a civil rights action, contending that, with this knowledge, defendant tobacco companies have targeted the marketing of mentholated tobacco products at African-Americans.
Plaintiffs, who designate themselves the “Black Smokers,” are the Rev. Jesse Brown, the Uptown Coalition for Tobacco Control and Healing, Aaron Eleazer, Pansy Smith, Ellen Irving, and the National Association of African Americans for Positive…
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