Glenn Hegar, in His Official Capacity as Texas Comptroller, and Ken Paxton, in His Official Capacity as Texas Attorney General v. Texas Small Tobacco Coalition and Global Tobacco, Inc.

Amid nationwide tobacco litigation in the 1990s, the State of Texas individually settled its lawsuit against several of the largest tobacco companies over smoking-related Medicaid costs. The multibillion dollar settlement principally requires the settling manufacturers to make annual payments of approximately $500 million to the State in perpetuity. In return, the State waived without limitation, among other things, any future reimbursement claims against the settling manufacturers.

In 2013, the Legislature passed House Bill 3536, which sought to recover the State’s health care costs imposed…