Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) and Representatives Cass Ballenger (NC-R) and Howard Coble (NC-R)
Amici Curiae
Richard A. Samp, Counsel of RecordThe Washington Legal Foundation is a nonprofit public interest law and policy center with interests that include issues involving instances where it perceives that Federal administrative agencies have exceeded legal bounds in their regulation of the business community. It is joined by U.S. Representatives Cass Ballenger and Howard Coble, who believe that Congress did not intend the FDA to regulate cigarettes. Richard A. Samp has been Chief Counsel of WLF since 1989. Prior to that, he was a litigator at the Washington, D.C., firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge. He is a 1980 graduate…
