Article: Another cigarette manufacturer joins the Master Settlement Agreement.

Article: MSA takes on the challengers.(National Focus)(tobacco ...
Tobacco Retailer;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... time and explain how the (MSA) works, the paper quotes ... the constitutionality of the MSA to go to trial in Louisiana ... unsuccessful challenges to the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement across the nation ... The CEI, which describes the MSA as a hidden tax, has been ...

Article: Five years gone: a half-decade after its implementation, the ...
Tobacco Retailer;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... signed off on the landmark Master Settlement Agreement. If he were alive ... industry. Simply put, the MSA settled pending lawsuits to ... tobacco industry before the MSA was signed.) The MSA, as well as the individual ...

Article: General Tobacco Continues Corporate Commitment to the MSA; ...
Business Wire;  June 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... payment of $11.5 million to the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) as part of its commitment to ... experienced after joining the MSA. This adjustment is currently ... every other tobacco company in the MSA. While General Tobacco maintains ...

Article: Carolina Tobacco Company applies to MSA.(Master ...
Tobacco Retailer;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... become a future signatory to the Master Settlement Agreement. CTC's application ... coordinates state enforcement of the MSA. When CTC's application ... states participating in the MSA will receive a portion of the ... Manufacturer and signatory to the MSA. Currently, payments under ...

Article: Appeals court rules MSA doesn't violate antitrust ...
Tobacco Retailer;  August 1, 2001 ;     572 words ... ... appeals court upheld the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between states and ... wholesaler who claimed that the MSA restrained trade. The settlement ... permanent injunction against the MSA. "The court held that because the MSA resulted from the settlement ...

Article: New York gets separate MSA arbitration.(INDUSTRY ...
Tobacco Retailer;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Once again, the Master Settlement Agreement, and whether ... certain percentage due to the MSA, and the state in question ... participating members. MSA payments are due in mid ... According to Law.com, the MSA stipulates that in an arbitration ...

Article: Vibo joins MSA; vector sues ags.(INDUSTRY ...
Tobacco Retailer;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... amended terms," Bernstein said. "The MSA is an agreement that is the foundation ... the agreement are being violated." The Master Settlement Agreement was signed by 46 states and ... participating manufacturers to join the MSA, but the companies should join under ...