http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/lawsuit/conwood.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=BT-CO-20001018-003843.djml http://tobacco.org/news/51956.html UST Inc. (UST) deposited $500 million with the U.S. District Court on Oct. 10 to cover bonding requirements imposed by the court for certain antitrust litigation brought by Conwood Corp. According to a Form 8-K filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the antitrust lawsuit concerns UST's smokeless tobacco subsidiary, U.S. Tobacco Co. As reported, on Aug. 11 the Court set a bond of $500 million for an antitrust lawsuit filed against UST by Conwood. As reported in March, a Kentucky jury ordered UST to pay Conwood $350 million in damages, later raised to $1.05 billion by the Court, in accordance with antitrust laws. The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Wed, 18 Oct 2000 04:00:00 GMT