Legal Opinion
In re Massachusetts Smokeless Tobacco Litigation
Massachusetts Superior Court
Decided April 9, 2008No. 035038BLS1Published
1Opinion of the Court
Gants, Ralph D., J.
The plaintiffs in this action are a certified class of consumers residing in Massachusetts who indirectly purchased from the defendants United States Tobacco Company and its affiliates (collectively, “UST’) for their own use moist snuff tobacco products, more commonly referred to as smokeless tobacco, between January 1, 1990 and the present. USTs oldest and most well known brands of smokeless tobacco are Copenhagen and Skoal. According to the plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint, UST, which controlled 70 percent of the United States market for smokeless tobacco, engaged in various…
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