Sentences with phrase «tobacco settlement money»

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As an example: When Virginia sued the tobacco companies and was awarded the huge settlements they set up a commission to reinvest that money in the tobacco farming areas in order to help the economy there (since it was dependent on tobacco farming).

Those who want more money spent on child care now say their best hopes lie with a bipartisan proposal in the Senate to target funds from a tobacco settlement toward child - care subsidies and other early - childhood programs.

Last week's failure of a massive tobacco - settlement bill in the Senate added new urgency to efforts by the Clinton administration and education lobbyists to find money to pay for class - size reductions and other programs with funding contingent on new cigarette taxes.

In the case of the tobacco industry, the court found documents that led to the fourth largest lawsuit money settlement in all of history.

A 1994 tobacco case State of Minnesota and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota v. Philip Morris et al proved the RICO law to be valuable not for racketeering convictions, but for its subpoena power to find and weaponize internal documents, which, in the case of the tobacco industry found documents that led to the fourth largest lawsuit money settlement in all of history, anywhere.