US court seems to ‘lean' towards tobacco companies
High court seems to lean toward cigarette-makers; boundary of state-federal law at crux of case weighing smokers' complaints over labelling.
On the first day of the Supreme Court's new term, the justices appeared receptive Monday to a tobacco lawyer's arguments that federal law blocks state lawsuits claiming fraud in the marketing of "light" and "low-tar" cigarettes.
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