Legal Opinion
Sheila Foster v. State of Minnesota
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 20, 2018No. 17-1177PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
*357 In 1998, the State of Minnesota, through its Attorney General, entered into a court-approved Settlement Agreement in which the State "release[d] and forever discharge[d]" tobacco companies from claims that they violated Minnesota consumer protection statutes in exchange for substantial periodic settlement payments. In 2001, Gregory Curtis filed a class action alleging that one of the companies had violated several Minnesota consumer protection statutes by marketing "light" cigarettes as a safer alternative to regular cigarettes. The Supreme Court of Minnesota eventually…
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