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More than 800 additional Liggett documentsOn 4 December 1997, the Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives in the United States subpoenaed more than 800 tobacco industry documents in the matter of State of Minnesota et al vs Philip Morris Inc. et al, No C1-94-8563.
Stating that the documents revealed "a conspiracy of silence and
suppression of scientific research," Ramsey County (Minnesota) District Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick, on 16 December 1997, upheld the
conclusions of Special Master Mark W Gehan that 864 previously secret
tobacco company documents contained evidence of crime or
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