Litigation forced disclosure of industries’ internal harm documents

Evidence

Disputes over the adverse health effects of the products marketed by these industries have a long history. Through litigation, a vast array of internal corporate documents have become available for analysis. The tobacco documents have been archived by, and are accessible through, the University of California, San Francisco’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (https://industrydocuments. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1617

Categorization

• SEED: The UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library is a public archive; angle on how discovery as method yields the documentary basis for disengagement studies.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1617
• XREF: connects to: FOIA litigation is required to document state surveillance. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 1295