March 2024

Harry Levant, PHAI’s Gambling Policy Advisor, Featured on KMX News LA

Predatory Gambling​, Sports Betting /

Harry Levant, PHAI’s Gambling Policy Advisor, was featured on KMX News Los Angeles discussing the recent firing of Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers’ star Shohei Ohtani. The dismissal occurred Wednesday afternoon after suspicions arose of Mizuhara taking funds from Ohtani for illegal gambling activities. Give the interview a listen by downloading the […]

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PHAI’s Gottlieb Featured on Radio Boston

Leave a Comment / Tobacco, Tobacco Litigation /

PHAI’s Executive Director, Mark Gottlieb was featured on Radio Boston where he discussed the recent bylaw in Brookline, Massachusetts that was introduced in 2020 and was just recently upheld by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The ban on tobacco in Brookline, MA for those born on or after January 1st, 2000 is a first-in-the-nation law

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PHAI’s Gottlieb Discusses Brookline’s Landmark decision to Phase Out Tobacco in The Boston Globe

Tobacco, Tobacco Litigation /

PHAI’s Executive Director, Mark Gottlieb is quoted in a new Boston Globe article on the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Brookline’s Nicotine Free Generation law to phase out tobacco sales. Others have approved more aggressive measures; two California cities — Manhattan Beach and Beverly Hills — banned the sale of all tobacco products, for example. But Brookline is

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Brookline’s Historic Law to Phase Out All Tobacco Sales is Affirmed by the Massachusetts High Court

Center For Public Health Litigation, Tobacco /

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in a unanimous decision, today gave the green light to the life-saving Nicotine-Free Generation (“NFG”) policy. The Brookline bylaw, which the Court upheld the Town of Brookline’s local law to prohibit sales of tobacco products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000, is in conflict with the state

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