Word: tobacco
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...University recently rebuffed the efforts of the tobacco industry to subpoena a half-century of Harvard research records...
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...
...representative of the tobacco industry claimed that the subpoena should not be overly difficult to fulfill...
With the University’s refusal to provide the documents, the tobacco companies could now ask a judge to rule on Harvard’s objections and potentially force the University to comply...
Harvard was one of eight universities served with subpoenas from the tobacco industry, Sorrells said...