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Jump to full article: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, 2001-05-22
Author: Scott Ritter / Dow Jones Newswires; 202 862-6687; scott.ritter@dowjones.com
Intro: The nation's big tobacco companies won another legal victory Tuesday when a federal appeals court tossed out racketeering and antitrust claims leveled by several union healthcare funds.
Ruling in a pair of cases, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit became the eighth federal appellate court to squash efforts to collect millions of dollars spent by union funds to treat workers' smoking-related illnesses.
Tuesday's ruling may bode poorly for the federal government's 1999 lawsuit against big tobacco, which makes similar racketeering claims. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who opposed the lawsuit when he was in the Senate, said last month that he hasn't decided whether to proceed with the suit.
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