Billy Lamb and Carmon Willis v. Phillip Morris, Inc. And B.A.T. Industries, Plc

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• rejecting defendants’ reliance on the holding of Hunt as unjustified given the Supreme Court’s then-recent decision in Kirkpatrick
• explaining “that the act of state doctrine does not ‘bar[] a court in the United States from entertaining a cause of action that . . . require[s] imputing to foreign officials an unlawful motivation . . . in the performance of . . . an official act.” (alterations in original

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