American Academy of Pediatrics et al v. United States Food and Drug Administration

1:16-cv-11985

March 06, 2019
FDA Must Redesign Tobacco Warnings By March 2020

A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to finalize a congressionally mandated new rule to create graphic, full-color tobacco warning labels by March 2020, more than a year earlier than the deadline the agency had proposed.
October 05, 2018
Tobacco Warning Labels Ready By 2021 At Earliest, FDA Says

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in court documents Friday the earliest it can finish revamping tobacco warning labels is summer 2021, explaining the government can't rush building an arsenal of research and public input on graphic, full-color warnings that Big Tobacco already once derailed.
September 05, 2018
FDA Ordered To Finish Overdue Graphics For Tobacco Labels

A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday to finish designing full-color, graphic warning labels that were due seven years ago under a law mandating the ugly imagery of tobacco's health consequences be placed on cigarette packs and advertisements.
October 04, 2016
FDA Moving Too Slowly On Cigarette Label Revamp, Suit Says

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is four years behind on complying with a Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requirement to make cigarette warning labels more graphic, the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association and a pediatricians group told a Massachusetts federal court Tuesday.