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Big Tobacco Asserts First Amendment with Help from Floyd Abrams 

The tobacco companies are represented by English, Lucas, Priest & Owsley in Bowling Green. Additionally, Latham & Watkins represents Commonwealth Brands, Jones Day represents Conwood Company and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Cahill Gordon & Reindel represents Lorillard Tobacco Co.

Indeed, The Am Law Daily couldn't help but notice that Cahill's First Amendment stalwart Floyd Abrams made the media rounds yesterday on Lorillard's behalf. Abrams told the Journal the case "will be about whether Congress has gone too far about preventing tobacco companies from communicating with adults, and keeping adults from receiving the information that tobacco companies want to send to them."

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