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However, the subpoena is part of the tobacco industry’s defense efforts against the ongoing lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice in the fall of 1999. The suit seeks billions of dollars in damages from the companies to reimburse the government for its expenditures on smoking-related health care costs...
...letter last month responding to the subpoena, Harvard’s attorneys argued that releasing the information would violate the First Amendment rights of researchers—particularly the rights of confidentiality of researchers and research subjects...
Lopez noted that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit accepted such an argument in a 1998 case rejecting a subpoena of research records by Microsoft. In that case, the software giant had sought records from David B. Yoffie, Starr professor of international business administration at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor Michael A. Cusumano, to defend itself in the federal government’s anti-trust lawsuit...
...representative of the tobacco industry claimed that the subpoena should not be overly difficult to fulfill...
...subpoena is very narrowly tailored,” said John Sorrells, a spokesperson for Phillip Morris, one of the tobacco companies sued by the government...