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Supreme Court Tackles Hot Business Issues That Divide Congress 

Jump to full article: Bloomberg News, 1999-10-01

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The legal question is whether Congress put tobacco under the FDA's jurisdiction with a Depression-era law that gave the agency power over products ``intended to affect the structure or any function of the body.''

With Congress having abandoned efforts to delegate that authority more explicitly to the FDA, the high court case now looms as the key fight on the issue.

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