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Intro: American tobacco companies have failed in a bid to get courts in the Marshall Islands disqualified from hearing a potential multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the health impacts of smoking.
US Chief Justice Allen Fields says claims advanced by the companies to disqualify courts in Majuro from the case because of alleged political interfere with the judiciary were without merit. . .
Late last year, American tobacco companies challenged the credibility of US High Court Judge H. Dee Johnson, appealing to the Supreme Court that the lower court could not fairly and impartially hear the case.
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