Court Sends Back Tobacco Case
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
A federal appeals court yesterday ruled that small tobacco companies may have a valid legal argument that the 1998 pact between major tobacco firms and 46 states runs afoul of the Constitution by effectively setting nationwide prices for cigarettes. The case was sent back to a lower court for further hearings.
