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Philip Morris Sues ABC and Day One

Rhetorical Cross Audience Case #R001A

Philip Morris announced in an inter office memo and a press release (by Murray Bring) that they would sue ABC and Day One for libel. This page includes links to a short background abstract of the documents in this case, to the pdf

and xml

formats of both documents, and to statistical comparisons of the two documents.

Click here for the history and background signifigance of this case

Documents for Case #R001A:

PDF Format:
Inter Office Announcement of ABC Lawsuit, Bates # 2022988669.
Murray Bring Announces ABC Lawsuit, Bates # 2045990871.

XML Format:
Inter Office Announcement of ABC Lawsuit, Bates # 2022988669.
Murray Bring Announces ABC Lawsuit, Bates # 2045990871.

Link to a graph of keyness comparison for the top five key words (see keyness

) in each document.
Link to basic comparative statistics for the documents.

NIH-NCI Tobacco-Documents Project at the University of Georgia (Grant # 1 RO1 CA87490-01). Please contact Cati Brown for more information concerning the rhetorical cases.