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...LOUIS HAS BEEN MIRED IN MISERY. Its 1992 murder rate was the highest in the nation, while the property-tax rate was one of the highest in Illinois. Six years ago, it achieved national notoriety when, crippled by debt, it gave up the city hall to settle a lawsuit. Garbage lay uncollected in the streets. Businesses fled. Today half the 40,000 residents, in a town that used to be integrated but is now 98% black, qualify for public assistance. Drugs are rampant. Where better than this slum on the Mississippi River to build a glittering $45 million floating casino...
...order to reclaim Medicaid costs. The state is seeking $4 billion, the estimated total expense to Texas taxpayers for smoking related Medicaid claims since 1980. The suit, filed in a Texarkana federal court, also aims to curb tobacco advertisements that the state claims are targeted at children. The lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, along with public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, the Council...
...DRINK IN A NEW YORK City hotel, after two adversaries agreed to settle a hard-fought case about defective plumbing pipes. "What are you going to do next?" New York attorney Marc Kasowitz asked. Don Barrett, a Mississippi lawyer, explained that he was involved in his state's lawsuit to recoup Medicaid money spent treating smoking-related illnesses. Kasowitz quizzed him, but, says Barrett, "I didn't realize he was the personal friend and attorney for Ben LeBow." Not until a few weeks later, that is, when Kasowitz called Barrett to arrange a meeting and floated the news that...
...that includes Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and the Tobacco Institute. Shebel confirms that a conversation took place in which actual dollar amounts were bandied about. He admits that he mentioned payments of $105 million a year, "for a long time, maybe indefinitely," to settle the state's $1.4 billion lawsuit. He says he was not talking with Jenne at the behest of the tobacco industry, but comments, "We all know who the targets of this lawsuit are." Tobacco-industry lawyers say they know nothing of the talk. "Philip Morris doesn't want to settle," says a tobacco-industry lawyer...
...know that the state of Michigan would be legally permitted to seize the car involved in a prostitution arrest, even though, in this case, it was co-owned by Tina. With the support of an odd coalition of civil rights liberals and property-rights conservatives, Bennis has pressed a lawsuit to recover her half of the $600 value of the car. Last week the Supreme Court surprised the legal community by ruling against her. Court watchers were most surprised by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had appeared sympathetic to Bennis during oral arguments...