The five-four ruling, which opens Altria's Philip Morris and its peers to a spate of litigation, affirms an appellate-court decision that federal cigarette labelling laws preventing states from enacting additional smoking regulations was not a reason to prevent a lawsuit from proceeding in a Maine district court.
最高法院以5票對4票維持了一個上訴法院的判決。該上訴法院的判決認定,聯邦香煙標簽法禁止各州頒布額外吸煙法規,不能作為不讓緬因州一家地區法院受理一宗與香煙有關的訴訟的依據。最高法院的這一判決將會使奧馳亞旗下的菲利普莫里斯(Philip Morris)及其業內同行面對一大批民事訴訟。
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