Lorillard Files Suit Challenging FDA Graphic Labels on First Amendment Grounds

by Gary Kopycinski on August 17, 2011

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GREENSBORO, N.C.–(ENEWSPF)–Aug. 16, 2011. Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO), the third largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States, today filed suit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), challenging nine new cigarette warnings as an unconstitutional way of forcing tobacco manufacturers to disseminate the government’s anti-smoking message.