A federal judge has struck down a law that would have required cigarette manufacturers to use up to 50 percent of their packaging to issue warnings about cigarettes and show graphic pictures of the harm done by smoking. The judge said the packaging requirements infringed on the free speech of the tobacco companies, by damaging their brand packaging ...

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A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction to halt the increase of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. The judge said that embryos are necessarily destroyed during the research and more argument needs to be made by both sides before federal funding is given ...

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