SPOKANE, Wash. - Because the bulk of the tobacco a Native American tribe sells is not grown on reservation lands, it must pay into an escrow account required by the national Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), a Washington federal judge said in an April 5 opinion (King Mountain Tobacco Company Inc., et al. v. Robert McKenna, Attorney General of the State of Washington, No. 2:11-cv-3018, E.D. Wash.; 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49740)....(read more)![]()
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