| 1988 | Michael Moore is elected Attorney General of Mississippi.
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| May 1993 | Mike Lewis visits his secretary's mother, Jackie Thompson, in the
Memphis hospital and begins discussing a suit against the tobacco industry on
her behalf. In the elevator after the visit, Mike Lewis comes up with the idea
of suing the tobacco industry on behalf of the state to recover costs from
treating smokers.
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| 5/23/94 | Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore announces the
filing of a suit against the tobacco industry, It seeks to recoup $940 million the state spent treating sick smokers.
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| 8/17/94 | Minnesota Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III files a Medicaid
suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 9/20/94 | Attorney General of West Virginia files a Medicaid suit against the
tobacco industry.
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| 12/94 | Florida Legislature passes a law making it much easier to sue the tobacco
industry for Medicaid costs. The tobacco industry fights the passage of the
law, but loses.
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| 9/20/94 | Attorney General of West Virginia files a Medicaid suit against the
tobacco industry.
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| 12/94 | Florida Legislature passes a law making it much easier to sue the tobacco
industry for Medicaid costs. The tobacco industry fights the passage of the
law, but looses.
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| 11/29/95 | Jeffrey Wigand is deposed in Pascagoula, in state of
Mississippi's Medicaid lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
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| 12/19/95 | Massachusetts files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 3/96 | The Liggett tobacco group settles with five states and 67 law firms
suing the industry - the first such agreement in 40 years of litigation.
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| 3/96 | Steven Goldstone, RJR Nabisco CEO says the industry would consider
settlement.
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| 3/13/96 | Louisiana files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 3/28/96 | Texas files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 4/11/96 | New Jersey announces that they will file a Medicaid suit against the
tobacco indsutry. Actually file suit on 9/10/96.
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| 5/96 | Federal appeals court dismisses the Castano national class-action lawsuit.
Lawyers in the Castano group begin filing class-action lawsuits in individual
states.
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| 5/1/96 | Maryland files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/5/96 | Washington files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 7/18/96 | Connecticut files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 8/20/96 | Kansas files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 8/21/96 | Michigan files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 8/22/96 | Oklahoma files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 9/10/96 | New Jersey files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 9/30/96 | Utah files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 10/96 | B.A.T. Industries CEO Martin Broughton says a settlement of tobacco
lawsuits would be "common sense."
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| 10/17/96 | Alabama files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 11/12/96 | Illinois files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 11/27/96 | Iowa files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 12/96 | RJR hires North Carolina lawyer Phil Carlton to lobby the White
House and try to meet with Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore.
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| 1/27/97 | New York files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 1/31/97 | Hawaii files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 2/5/97 | Wisconsin files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 2/19/97 | Indiana files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 3/97 | The Mississippi Supreme Court rules that the state's lawsuit can proceed
to trial.
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| 3/97 | Liggett CEO Bennett LeBow settles with more than 20 states
and agrees to release internal industry documents.
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| 3/18/97 | Joe Rice, an attorney in Ron Motley's law firm, meets for the first
time in Charlotte, NC, with tobacco industry attorneys to discuss a settlement
of all lawsuits facing the industry, the first time a major tobacco company
representative sits across the table from an antitobacco attorney, apart from
litigation.
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| 3/31/97 | Mike Moore, Dick Scruggs, Matt Myers, and John Coale meet with
Phil Carlton.
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| 4/3/97 | Phillip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible, RJR Nabisco's CEO Steven Goldstone,
and their attorneys meet in Crystal City, VA, with state attorneys general to
discuss a national settlement.
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| 4/14/97 | Alaska files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 4/22/97 | Pennsylvania files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/5/97 | Montana files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/5/97 | Arkansas files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/8/97 | Ohio files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/9/97 | South Carolina files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/10/97 | Missouri files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/21/97 | Nevada files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/27/97 | New Mexico files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 5/28/97 | Scruggs and Moore meet with the leaders of the Public Health community
in Chicago to discuss the potential deal.
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| 5/29/97 | Vermont files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/4/97 | New Hampshire files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/5/97 | Colorado files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/10/97 | Oregon files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/97 | Idaho files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/12/97 | California files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/16/97 | Puerto Rico files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/18/97 | Maine files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
Rhode Island files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 6/20/97 | The tobacco companies and state attorneys general announce a
landmark $368.5 billion settlement agreement
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| 7/15/97 | Mississippi settles its Medicaid case with the tobacco industry for
$3.4 billion dollars.
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| 8/25/97 | Florida settles. Tobacco companies agree to pay $11.3 billion.
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| 8/29/97 | Georgia files a Medicaid suit against the tobacco industry.
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| 1/15/98 | Texas settles with the tobacco industry for a record $14.5 billion.
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| 1/26/98 | Minnesota trial starts. |
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