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Article: Universal Corporation Announces Entering DeLoach Case Settlement Agreement.
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- PR Newswire
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- May 16, 2003
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Universal Corporation announced today that three of its domestic tobacco subsidiaries, along with several domestic cigarette manufacturers and other tobacco leaf dealers, have entered into a settlement agreement today with the plaintiffs in the DeLoach, et al. v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., et al., Case No. 00-CV-1235, class-action antitrust lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. The signed settlement agreement and Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Approval of Proposed Class Action Settlement describing some of the terms of the agreement were filed with the court today, and the court orally granted its preliminary ...