United States First Circuit

The Massachusetts Tobacco Ingredients and Nicotine Yield Act, requiring tobacco companies to disclose for each brand the identity of each added ingredient in order of weight, measure or count, information the companies treat as trade secrets, does not violate the US Constitution.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/16/2001
• Published 10/16/2001

Judges

• Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and LIPEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William W. Porter, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Thomas A. Barnico, Assistant Attorney General, and Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General, were on brief for appellants., Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Department of Justice, for amicus United States.


• For Appellees:
  
• Henry C. Dinger, P.C., with whom Goodwin Procter LLP, John H. Henn, Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP, John Connarton, Connarton, Wood & Callahan, Richard M. Zielinski, Hill & Barlow, Clausen Ely, Jr., Patricia A. Barald, and Covington & Burling, were on brief for appellees Philip Morris, Inc., et al., John L. Oberdorfer, with whom Patton Boggs LLP, A. Hugh Scott, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Peter J. McKenna, Eric S. Sarner, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, were on brief for appellees United States Tobacco Company, et al.