The UCSF Industry Documents Library has released a very useful new Juul Labs Collection Content Guide on the IDL website that provides a wealth of information and links to key documents to help people get started in searching the Juul documents. It is specifically built around the Multistate Juul Labs Collection, which includes materials disclosed through litigation and settlement agreements with the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, New York, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia. The documents illuminate Juul’s business practices, marketing, product development, and regulatory interactions.
This is hugely valuable because just diving into the sea of documents without any guidance can been scary.
The guide is specifically built for the Multistate Juul Labs Collection that contains materials disclosed through litigation and settlement agreements involving Juul Labs and multiple state attorneys general (California, Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico, New York, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia, referred to as the “Settling States”). The resulting settlement agreement was largely driven by the litigation led by the State of California. The documents can provide insight into the Juul Labs’ business practices, marketing, product development, and regulatory interactions.
The guide provides sections on popular research topic areas listed in the screen shot above and provides a few key document examples to help you get started. It also provides helpful lists of people and who they are, organizational charts and useful search terms specific to Juul, among other things as well as details of the legal claims against Juul and how to use the claims and Juul’s response to guide your research.
While the guide is specifically built around the Multistate Settlement, it will also help in searching the entire Juul document collection, which also includes documents from the North Carolina. Minnesota, and Washington litigation as well as documents from the FDA and Schlesinger Law firm.
So, jump in now! You’ll surprise yourself with what you find!
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The IDL has its next regular Office Hours on Monday, June 22, 11-12 Pacific Time. Emma James, the IDL archivist who led the project to develop the quide, will be there to answer questions and provide expert archivist help. Register here: https://tiny.ucsf.edu/UaYMHa (The next one is Monday, July 20th, 11-12 Pacific Time.)
The archivists are also always available to answer questions. Email them here.
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