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BOP Smoking Suit Dismissed
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2002, page 19
A federal district court in New York has dismissed a civil complaint filed by 435 federal prisoners against tobacco manufacturers and prison officials. The complaint alleged that tobacco manufacturers and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) director, Kathleen Hawk, conspired to sell as many cigarettes as possible to federal prisoners, with ...
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