United States Tenth Circuit
KT&G Corp. v. Attorney Gen. of the State of Oklahoma, 05-5175, 05-5178, 06-3061
In litigation arising from states' Master Settlement Agreement with the four major tobacco companies, wherein non-participating tobacco manufacturers (NPMs) challenged two states' amendments to provisions of their escrow statutes reducing the amount of escrow funds refunded to plaintiffs each year, dismissal of the claims is affirmed where: 1) the Sherman Act did not preempt the Kansas and Oklahoma amendments at issue; and 2) plaintiffs' First Amendment, equal protection, due process, and Commerce Clause claims failed.
Appellate Information
- Decided 07/23/2008
- Published 07/24/2008
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Court
- United States Tenth Circuit