Legal Filings

PHAI Submits Comments on Proposed Mass AG Regulations for E-Cigarettes

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On April 23, 2015,  the  Public Health Advocacy Institute submitted the following written comments concerning proposed regulations for electronic cigarettes issued by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey: April 23, 2015 Amber Villa, Assistant Attorney GeneralConsumer Protection DivisionOffice of the Attorney GeneralOne Ashburton PlaceBoston, MA 02108 Re: Massachusetts Attorney General Proposed Regulations of E-Cigarettes Retail Sales Dear […]

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PHAI Litigation the Focus of Boston Globe Editorial

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Today the Boston Globe\’s Editorial Board published an editorial supporting the the Public Health Advocacy Institute\’s efforts to stop automated lottery ticket sales to kids. Earlier this month, PHAI filed a lawsuit against Star Markets and issued to consumer rights demand to Stop & Shop, two major regional grocery chains, on behalf of the father

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PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court

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For Immediate Release Contact:  Mark Gottlieb  –  617-373-2026        The Public Health Advocacy Institute (“PHAI”) announced today that its newly formed Center for Public Health Litigation has filed lawsuits against two major tobacco companies and several local distributors on behalf of the families of two former smokers who suffered devastating disease from smoking

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PHAI Begins Legal Action against Star Markets Over Illegal Lottery Ticket Sales To Minors

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The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) today sent a demand letter to the Star Markets supermarket chain, charging the company with violating the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act by illegally selling lottery tickets to minors.  The letter calls on Star Markets to remove lottery scratch ticket vending machines from its stores. PHAI sent the letter on behalf

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PHAI Submits Comments to FDA on Deeming Rule Focusing on E-Cigarettes

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Today the Public Health Advocacy Institute submitted comments  to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on its proposed rule to include cigars, little cigars, electronic cigarette products, and tobacco for hookah smoking among the products for which it can legally issues rules and regulations.  This is known as a \”deeming rule.\”  The deeming rule is a

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PHAI Files Amicus Brief Comparing Gambling and Tobacco Industries

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The Public Health Advocacy Institute has filed an amicus curiae brief in an appeal pending before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.  The Plaintiff/Appellants are seeking to reverse a decision of the attorney general and get a question certified for inclusion on the 2014 ballot to repeal a law legalizing casino gambling in Massachusetts.  The case is Steven

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PHAI Board Member and President File Class Action to Address U.N. Cholera Tragedy in Haiti

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On March 11, 2014, Richard Daynard, University Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University and President of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, Dr. Tim Howard, President of Cambridge Graduate University and PHAI board member, along with former U.S. environmental litigation attorney Stanley Alpert, and James Haggerty filed a class action in US District Court in Brooklyn, NY against

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PHAI urges FDA to prohibit the sale and distribution of menthol cigarettes

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On July 24, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) seeking comments from the public and other stakeholders on the potential regulation of menthol in cigarettes.   Gottlieb and Daynard from PHAI submitted comments today on Docket No. FDA-2013-N-0521 calling on the Secretary of Health and Human Services to

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PHAI’s Gottlieb co-authors article on strategies to reduce cancer from indoor tanning, FDA seeks stronger regulation of lamps

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An article released today in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine by Holman et al. focuses on strategies to reduce indoor tanning.  Indoor tanning with sun lamps (as opposed to spray tanning)  increases the risk of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.  This is particularly alarming because about one-third of white women(who are

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PHAI joins the Center for Digital Democracy and others in complaint to FTC over children’s websites’ “Tell-A-Friend” tactics

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Today the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston has joined a coalition of children’s, health, privacy and consumer advocacy organizations in a complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against several children’s websites for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The offending children’s websites use a

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