The_RANDy_Corporation
04-26-2001, 12:04 AM
About time he did something right. The government, particularly the AG's office has no business waging civil war against American business. We got enough tort lawyers to effectively do that w/o wasting our tax money in the process.
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No Money in Bush Budget for Tobacco Lawsuit
By Karen Gullo Associated Press Writer
Published: Apr 25, 2001
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration has not asked Congress for money in its new budget to pay for a massive lawsuit against big tobacco companies, prompting concerns that the Justice Department may not be able to continue the suit.
The administration has requested $1.8 million to pay salaries and staff costs for the tobacco litigation team in the department's civil division, Justice officials said. But no money has been sought to pay for legal work, such as gathering and analyzing millions of documents that tobacco companies have asked to see.
The litigation team has estimated that it needs more than $57 million this year to keep working on the case, according to The Washington Post, which cited a March 12 memo sent by tobacco litigation lawyers to Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The litigation team said that without more money, it can't keep pursuing the case. David Ogden, assistant attorney general and head of the department's civil division, had made the same argument last fall.
Watch the case go up in smoke by clicking here for the whole story (http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGARJ85BZLC.html)
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No Money in Bush Budget for Tobacco Lawsuit
By Karen Gullo Associated Press Writer
Published: Apr 25, 2001
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration has not asked Congress for money in its new budget to pay for a massive lawsuit against big tobacco companies, prompting concerns that the Justice Department may not be able to continue the suit.
The administration has requested $1.8 million to pay salaries and staff costs for the tobacco litigation team in the department's civil division, Justice officials said. But no money has been sought to pay for legal work, such as gathering and analyzing millions of documents that tobacco companies have asked to see.
The litigation team has estimated that it needs more than $57 million this year to keep working on the case, according to The Washington Post, which cited a March 12 memo sent by tobacco litigation lawyers to Attorney General John Ashcroft.
The litigation team said that without more money, it can't keep pursuing the case. David Ogden, assistant attorney general and head of the department's civil division, had made the same argument last fall.
Watch the case go up in smoke by clicking here for the whole story (http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGARJ85BZLC.html)