Tobacco industry use of judicial seminars to influence rulings in products liability litigation.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVES:This paper examines the tobacco industry's efforts to influence litigation by sponsoring judicial seminars. METHODS:Thousands of internal tobacco documents were examined, including memos, reports, presentations, and newsletters. Connections to outside organisations were corroborated by examining tobacco industry financial records, budgets, and letters pledging funds. Facts about outside organisations were triangulated through examining their websites and publicly-filed financial records, and verifying facts through their representatives' statements in newspaper and law review articles. RESULTS:There are direct financial ties between the tobacco industry and groups that organise judicial seminars in an effort to influence jurisprudence, and judges who attend these seminars may be breaching judicial ethics either by not inquiring about the source of funding or by ignoring funding by potential litigants. CONCLUSIONS:The tobacco industry's attempts to clandestinely influence judges' decisions in cases to which they are a party endangers the integrity of the judiciary.

journal_name

Tob Control

journal_title

Tobacco control

authors

Friedman LC

doi

10.1136/tc.2005.013128

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-04-01 00:00:00

pages

120-4

issue

2

eissn

0964-4563

issn

1468-3318

pii

15/2/120

journal_volume

15

pub_type

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