Legal Opinion
Sanders v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 26, 2007No. 05-15676PublishedCited by 356 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:.This case involves an indirect legal challenge to the massive settlement agreement between the nation’s largest tobacco companies and the attorneys general of 46 states and several territories. The 1998 settlement known as the Master Settlement Agreement, or “MSA,” resolved all of these states’ and territories’ claims against those tobacco companies, which the states had sued for billions of dollars in damages related to the harmful effects of smoking.
Plaintiff Steve Sanders, a smoker, alleges that cigarette prices have skyrocketed in the nine years since the MSA, and…
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