Exhibit 4
PROPOSED MASTER SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
MASTER SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
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I. RECITALS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. DEFINITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
(a) "Account" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
(b) "Adult" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
(c) "Adult-Only Facility" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
(d) "Affiliate" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
(e) "Agreement" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
(f) "Allocable Share" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
(g) "Allocated Payment" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
(h) "Bankruptcy". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
(i) "Brand Name". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
(j) "Brand Name Sponsorship". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
(k) "Business Day". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
(l) "Cartoon" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
(m) "Cigarette" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
(n) "Claims". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
(o) "Consent Decree". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
(p) "Court" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
(q) "Escrow". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
(r) "Escrow Agent". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
(s) "Escrow Agreement". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(t) "Federal Tobacco Legislation Offset". . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(u) "Final Approval". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(v) "Foundation". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(w) "Independent Auditor" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(x) "Inflation Adjustment". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(y) "Litigating Releasing Parties Offset" . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
(z) "Market Share". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
(aa) "MSA Execution Date". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
(bb) "NAAG". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
(cc) "Non-Participating Manufacturer". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
(dd) "Non-Settling States Reduction" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
(ee) "Notice Parties". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
(ff) "NPM Adjustment". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
(gg) "NPM Adjustment Percentage" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
(hh) "Original Participating Manufacturers". . . . . . . . . . . .10
(ii) "Outdoor Advertising" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
(jj) "Participating Manufacturer". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
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(kk) "Previously Settled States Reduction" . . . . . . . . . . . .12
(ll) "Prime Rate". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
(mm) "Relative Market Share" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .00
(xx) "Released Claims" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
(oo) "Released Parties". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
(pp) "Releasing Parties" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
(qq) "Settling State". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
(rr) "State" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
(ss) "State-Specific Finality" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
(tt) "Subsequent Participating Manufacturer" . . . . . . . . . . .16
(uu) "Tobacco Product Manufacturer". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
(vv) "Tobacco Products". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
(ww) "Tobacco-Related Organizations" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
(xx) "Transit Advertisements". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
(yy) "Underage". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
(zz) "Video Game Arcade" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
(aaa) "Volume Adjustment" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
(bbb) "Youth" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
III. PERMANENT RELIEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
(a) Prohibition on Youth Targeting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
(b) Ban on Use of Cartoons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
(c) Limitation of Tobacco Brand Name Sponsorships . . . . . . . .19
(d) Elimination of Outdoor Advertising and Transit
Advertisements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
(e) Prohibition on Payments Related to Tobacco Products and
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
(f) Ban on Tobacco Brand Name Merchandise . . . . . . . . . . . .25
(g) Ban on Youth Access to Free Samples . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
(h) Ban on Gifts to Underage Persons Based on
Proofs of Purchase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
(i) Limitation on Third-Party Use of Brand Names. . . . . . . . .27
(j) Ban on Non-Tobacco Brand Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
(k) Minimum Pack Size of Twenty Cigarettes. . . . . . . . . . . .28
(l) Corporate Culture Commitments Related to Youth Access and
Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
(m) Limitations on Lobbying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
(n) Restriction on Advocacy Concerning Settlement Proceeds. . . .32
(o) Dissolution of The Tobacco Institute, Inc., the Council for
Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc. and the Center for Indoor
Air Research, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
(p) Regulation and Oversight of New Tobacco-Related
Trade Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
(q) Prohibition on Agreements to Suppress Research. . . . . . . .35
(r) Prohibition on Material Misrepresentations. . . . . . . . . .36
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IV. PUBLIC ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
V. TOBACCO CONTROL AND UNDERAGE USE LAWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
VI. ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL FOUNDATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
(a) Foundation Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
(b) Base Foundation Payments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
(c) National Public Education Fund Payments . . . . . . . . . . .42
(d) Creation and Organization of the Foundation . . . . . . . . .43
(e) Foundation Affiliation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
(f) Foundation Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
(g) Foundation Grant-Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
(h) Foundation Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
(i) Severance of this Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
VII. ENFORCEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
(a) Jurisdiction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
(b) Enforcement of Consent Decree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
(c) Enforcement of this Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
(d) Right of Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
(e) Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
(f) Coordination of Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
(g) Inspection and Discovery Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
VIII. CERTAIN ONGOING RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SETTLING STATES . . . . . . .53
IX. PAYMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
(a) All Payments Into Escrow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
(b) Initial Payments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
(c) Annual Payments and Strategic Contribution Payments . . . . .56
(d) Non-Participating Manufacturer Adjustment . . . . . . . . . .58
(e) Supplemental Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
(f) Payment Responsibility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
(g) Corporate Structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
(h) Accrual of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
(i) Payments by Subsequent Participating Manufacturers. . . . . .78
(j) Order of Application of Allocations, Offsets, Reductions and
Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
X. EFFECT OF FEDERAL TOBACCO-RELATED LEGISLATION . . . . . . . . . . . .83
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XI. CALCULATION AND DISBURSEMENT OF PAYMENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
(a) Independent Auditor to Make All Calculations. . . . . . . . .86
(b) Identity of Independent Auditor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
(c) Resolution of Disputes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
(d) General Provisions as to Calculation of Payments. . . . . . .88
(e) General Treatment of Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
(f) Disbursement and Charges Not Contingent on
Final Approval. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
(g) Payments to be Made Only After Final Approval . . . . . . . 102
(h) Applicability to Section XVII Payments. . . . . . . . . . . 103
(i) Miscalculated or Disputed Payments. . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
(j) Payments After Applicable Condition . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
XII. SETTLING STATES' RELEASE, DISCHARGE AND COVENANT. . . . . . . . . . 109
(a) Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
(b) Released Claims Against Released Parties. . . . . . . . . . 116
XIII. CONSENT DECREES AND DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
XIV. PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURERS' DISMISSAL OF RELATED LAWSUITS. . . . . 121
XV. VOLUNTARY ACT OF THE PARTIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
XVI. CONSTRUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
XVII. RECOVERY OF COSTS AND ATTORNEYS' FEES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
XVIII. MISCELLANEOUS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
(a) Effect of Current or Future Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
(b) Limited Most-Favored Nation Provision . . . . . . . . . . . 125
(c) Transfer of Tobacco Brands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
(d) Payments in Settlement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
(e) No Determination or Admission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
(f) Non-Admissibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
(g) Representations of Parties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
(h) Obligations Several, Not Joint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
(i) Headings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
(j) Amendment and Waiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
(k) Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
(l) Cooperation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
(m) Designees to Discuss Disputes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
(n) Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
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(o) Severability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
(p) Intended Beneficiaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
(q) Counterparts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
(r) Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
(s) Preservation of Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
(t) Non-Release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
(u) Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
(v) Freedom of Information Requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
(w) Bankruptcy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
(x) Notice of Material Transfers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
(y) Entire Agreement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
(z) Business Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
(aa) Subsequent Signatories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
(bb) Decimal Places. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
(cc) Regulatory Authority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
(dd) Successors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
(ee) Export Packaging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
(ff) Actions Within Geographic Boundaries of
Settling States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
(gg) Notice to Affiliates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
EXHIBIT A STATE ALLOCATION PERCENTAGES
EXHIBIT B FORM OF ESCROW AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT C FORMULA FOR CALCULATING INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS
EXHIBIT D LIST OF LAWSUITS
EXHIBIT E FORMULA FOR CALCULATING VOLUME ADJUSTMENTS
EXHIBIT F POTENTIAL LEGISLATION NOT TO BE OPPOSED
EXHIBIT G OBLIGATIONS OF THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE UNDER THE MASTER SETTLEMENT
AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT H DOCUMENT PRODUCTION
EXHIBIT I INDEX AND SEARCH FEATURES FOR DOCUMENT WEBSITE
EXHIBIT J TOBACCO ENFORCEMENT FUND PROTOCOL
EXHIBIT K MARKET CAPITALIZATION PERCENTAGES
EXHIBIT L MODEL CONSENT DECREE
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EXHIBIT M LIST OF PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURERS' LAWSUITS AGAINST THE
SETTLING STATES
EXHIBIT N LITIGATING POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS
EXHIBIT O [MODEL] STATE FEE PAYMENT AGREEMENT
EXHIBIT P NOTICES
EXHIBIT Q 1997 DATA
EXHIBIT R EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN BRAND NAMES
EXHIBIT S DESIGNATION OF OUTSIDE COUNSEL
EXHIBIT T MODEL STATUTE
EXHIBIT U STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTION FUND PROTOCOL
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MASTER SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
This Master Settlement Agreement is made by the undersigned Settling
State officials (on behalf of their respective Settling States) and the
undersigned Participating Manufacturers to settle and resolve with finality all
Released Claims against the Participating Manufacturers and related entities as
set forth herein. This Agreement constitutes the documentation effecting this
settlement with respect to each Settling State, and is intended to and shall be
binding upon each Settling State and each Participating Manufacturer in
accordance with the terms hereof.
I. RECITALS
WHEREAS, more than 40 States have commenced litigation asserting various
claims for monetary, equitable and injunctive relief against certain tobacco
product manufacturers and others as defendants, and the States that have not
filed suit can potentially assert similar claims;
WHEREAS, the Settling States that have commenced litigation have sought
to obtain equitable relief and damages under state laws, including consumer
protection and/or antitrust laws, in order to further the Settling States'
policies regarding public health, including policies adopted to achieve a
significant reduction in smoking by Youth;
WHEREAS, defendants have denied each and every one of the Settling
States' allegations of unlawful conduct or wrongdoing and have asserted a number
of defenses to the Settling States' claims, which defenses have been contested
by the Settling States;
WHEREAS, the Settling States and the Participating Manufacturers are
committed to reducing underage tobacco use by discouraging such use and by
preventing Youth access to Tobacco Products;
WHEREAS, the Participating Manufacturers recognize the concern of the
tobacco grower community that it may be adversely affected by the potential
reduction in tobacco consumption resulting from this settlement, reaffirm their
commitment to work cooperatively to address concerns about the potential adverse
economic impact on such community, and will, within 30 days after the MSA
Execution Date, meet with the political leadership of States with grower
communities to address these economic concerns;
WHEREAS, the undersigned Settling State officials believe that entry
into this Agreement and uniform consent decrees with the tobacco industry is
necessary in order to further the Settling States' policies designed to reduce
Youth smoking, to promote the public health and to secure monetary payments to
the Settling States; and
WHEREAS, the Settling States and the Participating Manufacturers wish to
avoid the further expense, delay, inconvenience, burden and uncertainty of
continued litigation (including appeals from any verdicts), and, therefore, have
agreed to settle their respective lawsuits and potential claims pursuant to
terms which will achieve for the Settling States and their citizens significant
funding for the advancement of public health, the implementation of important
tobacco-related public health measures, including the enforcement of the
mandates and restrictions related to such measures, as well as funding for a
national Foundation dedicated to significantly reducing the use of Tobacco
Products by Youth;
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN THAT, in consideration of the implementation
of tobacco-related health measures and the payments to be made by the
Participating Manufacturers, the release and discharge of all claims by the
Settling States, and such other consideration as described herein, the
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Settling States and the
Participating Manufacturers, acting by and through their authorized agents,
memorialize and agree as follows:
II. DEFINITIONS
(a) "Account" has the meaning given in the Escrow Agreement.
(b) "Adult" means any person or persons who are not Underage.
(c) "Adult-Only Facility" means a facility or restricted area (whether
open-air or enclosed) where the operator ensures or has a reasonable basis to
believe (such as by checking identification as required under state law, or by
checking the identification of any person appearing to be under the age of 27)
that no Underage person is present. A facility or restricted area need not be
permanently restricted to Adults in order to constitute an Adult-Only Facility,
provided that the operator ensures or has a reasonable basis to believe that no
Underage person is present during the event or time period in question.
(d) "Affiliate" means a person who directly or indirectly owns or
controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control
with, another person. Solely for purposes of this definition, the terms "owns,"
"is owned" and "ownership" mean ownership of an equity interest, or the
equivalent thereof, of 10 percent or more, and the term "person" means an
individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation or any other
organization or group of persons.
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(e) "Agreement" means this Master Settlement Agreement, together with
the exhibits hereto, as it may be amended pursuant to subsection XVIII(j).
(f) "Allocable Share" means the percentage set forth for the State in
question as listed in Exhibit A hereto, without regard to any subsequent
alteration or modification of such State's percentage share agreed to by or
among any States; or, solely for the purpose of calculating payments under
subsection IX(c)(2) (and corresponding payments under subsection IX(i)), the
percentage disclosed for the State in question pursuant to subsection
IX(c)(2)(A) prior to June 30, 1999, without regard to any subsequent alteration
or modification of such State's percentage share agreed to by or among any
States.
(g) "Allocated Payment" means a particular Settling State's Allocable
Share of the sum of all of the payments to be made by the Original Participating
Manufacturers in the year in question pursuant to subsections IX(c)(1) and
IX(c)(2), as such payments have been adjusted, reduced and allocated pursuant to
clause "First" through the first sentence of clause "Fifth" of subsection IX(j),
but before application of the other offsets and adjustments described in clauses
"Sixth" through "Thirteenth" of subsection IX(j).
(h) "Bankruptcy" means, with respect to any entity, the commencement of
a case or other proceeding (whether voluntary or involuntary) seeking any of (1)
liquidation, reorganization, rehabilitation, receivership, conservatorship, or
other relief with respect to such entity or its debts under any bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar law now or hereafter in effect; (2) the appointment of a
trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or similar official of such entity or
any substantial part of its business or property; (3) the consent of such entity
to any of the relief described in (1) above or to the appointment of any
official described in (2) above in any such case or other proceeding
involuntarily commenced
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against such entity; or (4) the entry of an order for relief as to such entity
under the federal bankruptcy laws as now or hereafter in effect. Provided,
however, that an involuntary case or proceeding otherwise within the foregoing
definition shall not be a "Bankruptcy" if it is or was dismissed within 60 days
of its commencement.
(i) "Brand Name" means a brand name (alone or in conjunction with any
other word), trademark, logo, symbol, motto, selling message, recognizable
pattern of colors, or any other indicia of product identification identical or
similar to, or identifiable with, those used for any domestic brand of Tobacco
Products. Provided, however, that the term "Brand Name" shall not include the
corporate name of any Tobacco Product Manufacturer that does not after the MSA
Execution Date sell a brand of Tobacco Products in the States that includes such
corporate name.
(j) "Brand Name Sponsorship" means an athletic, musical, artistic, or
other social or cultural event as to which payment is made (or other
consideration is provided) in exchange for use of a Brand Name or Names (1) as
part of the name of the event or (2) to identify, advertise, or promote such
event or an entrant, participant or team in such event in any other way.
Sponsorship of a single national or multi-state series or tour (for example,
NASCAR (including any number of NASCAR races)), or of one or more events within
a single national or multi-state series or tour, or of an entrant, participant,
or team taking part in events sanctioned by a single approving organization
(e.g., NASCAR or CART), constitutes one Brand Name Sponsorship. Sponsorship of
an entrant, participant, or team by a Participating Manufacturer using a Brand
Name or Names in an event that is part of a series or tour that is sponsored by
such Participating Manufacturer or that is part of a series or tour in which any
one or more events are sponsored by such Participating
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Manufacturer does not constitute a separate Brand Name Sponsorship. Sponsorship
of an entrant, participant, or team by a Participating Manufacturer using a
Brand Name or Names in any event (or series of events) not sponsored by such
Participating Manufacturer constitutes a Brand Name Sponsorship. The term
"Brand Name Sponsorship" shall not include an event in an Adult-Only Facility.
(k) "Business Day" means a day which is not a Saturday or Sunday or
legal holiday on which banks are authorized or required to close in New York,
New York.
(l) "Cartoon" means any drawing or other depiction of an object,
person, animal, creature or any similar caricature that satisfies any of the
following criteria:
(1) the use of comically exaggerated features;
(2) the attribution of human characteristics to animals, plants
or other objects, or the similar use of anthropomorphic technique; or
(3) the attribution of unnatural or extrahuman abilities, such
as imperviousness to pain or injury, X-ray vision, tunneling at very
high speeds or transformation.
The term "Cartoon" includes "Xxx Camel," but does not include any drawing or
other depiction that on July 1, 1998, was in use in any State in any
Participating Manufacturer's corporate logo or in any Participating
Manufacturer's Tobacco Product packaging.
(m) "Cigarette" means any product that contains nicotine, is intended
to be burned or heated under ordinary conditions of use, and consists of or
contains (1) any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any substance not
containing tobacco; or (2) tobacco, in any form, that is functional in the
product, which, because of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the
filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to, or
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purchased by, consumers as a cigarette; or (3) any roll of tobacco wrapped in
any substance containing tobacco which, because of its appearance, the type of
tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be
offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a cigarette described in clause (1) of
this definition. The term "Cigarette" includes "roll-your-own" (i.e., any
tobacco which, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling is
suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as
tobacco for making cigarettes). Except as provided in subsections II(z) and
II(mm), 0.0325 ounces of "roll-your-own" tobacco shall constitute one
individual "Cigarette."
(n) "Claims" means any and all manner of civil (i.e., non-criminal):
claims, demands, actions, suits, causes of action, damages (whenever incurred),
liabilities of any nature including civil penalties and punitive damages, as
well as costs, expenses and attorneys' fees (except as to the Original
Participating Manufacturers' obligations under section XVII), known or unknown,
suspected or unsuspected, accrued or unaccrued, whether legal, equitable, or
statutory.
(o) "Consent Decree" means a state-specific consent decree as described
in subsection XIII(b)(1)(B) of this Agreement.
(p) "Court" means the respective court in each Settling State to which
this Agreement and the Consent Decree are presented for approval and/or entry as
to that Settling State.
(q) "Escrow" has the meaning given in the Escrow Agreement.
(r) "Escrow Agent" means the escrow agent under the Escrow Agreement.
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(s) "Escrow Agreement" means an escrow agreement substantially in the
form of Exhibit B.
(t) "Federal Tobacco Legislation Offset" means the offset described in
section X.
(u) "Final Approval" means the earlier of:
(1) the date by which State-Specific Finality in a sufficient
number of Settling States has occurred; or
(2) June 30, 2000.
For the purposes of this subsection (u), "State-Specific Finality in a
sufficient number of Settling States" means that State-Specific Finality has
occurred in both:
(A) a number of Settling States equal to at least 80%
of the total number of Settling States; and
(B) Settling States having aggregate Allocable Shares
equal to at least 80% of the total aggregate Allocable Shares
assigned to all Settling States.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Original Participating Manufacturers may, by
unanimous written agreement, waive any requirement for Final Approval set forth
in subsections (A) or (B) hereof.
(v) "Foundation" means the foundation described in section VI.
(w) "Independent Auditor" means the firm described in subsection XI(b).
(x) "Inflation Adjustment" means an adjustment in accordance with the
formulas for inflation adjustments set forth in Exhibit C.
(y) "Litigating Releasing Parties Offset" means the offset described in
subsection XII(b).
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(z) "Market Share" means a Tobacco Product Manufacturer's respective
share (expressed as a percentage) of the total number of individual Cigarettes
sold in the fifty United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico during
the applicable calendar year, as measured by excise taxes collected by the
federal government and, in the case of sales in Puerto Rico, arbitrios de
cigarillos collected by the Puerto Rico taxing authority. For purposes of the
definition and determination of "Market Share" with respect to calculations
under subsection IX(i), 0.09 ounces of "roll your own" tobacco shall constitute
one individual Cigarette; for purposes of the definition and determination of
"Market Share" with respect to all other calculations, 0.0325 ounces of "roll
your own" tobacco shall constitute one individual Cigarette.
(aa) "MSA Execution Date" means November 23, 1998.
(bb) "NAAG" means the National Association of Attorneys General, or its
successor organization that is directed by the Attorneys General to perform
certain functions under this Agreement.
(cc) "Non-Participating Manufacturer" means any Tobacco Product
Manufacturer that is not a Participating Manufacturer.
(dd) "Non-Settling States Reduction" means a reduction determined by
multiplying the amount to which such reduction applies by the aggregate
Allocable Shares of those States that are not Settling States on the date 15
days before such payment is due.
(ee) "Notice Parties" means each Participating Manufacturer, each
Settling State, the Escrow Agent, the Independent Auditor and NAAG.
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(ff) "NPM Adjustment" means the adjustment specified in subsection
IX(d).
(gg) "NPM Adjustment Percentage" means the percentage determined
pursuant to subsection IX(d).
(hh) "Original Participating Manufacturers" means the following: Xxxxx
& Xxxxxxxxxx Tobacco Corporation, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Incorporated and X.X. Xxxxxxxx Tobacco Company, and the respective successors of
each of the foregoing. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, once an
entity becomes an Original Participating Manufacturer, such entity shall
permanently retain the status of Original Participating Manufacturer.
(ii) "Outdoor Advertising" means (1) billboards, (2) signs and placards
in arenas, stadiums, shopping malls and Video Game Arcades (whether any of the
foregoing are open air or enclosed) (but not including any such sign or placard
located in an Adult-Only Facility), and (3) any other advertisements placed (A)
outdoors, or (B) on the inside surface of a window facing outward. Provided,
however, that the term "Outdoor Advertising" does not mean (1) an advertisement
on the outside of a Tobacco Product manufacturing facility; (2) an individual
advertisement that does not occupy an area larger than 14 square feet (and that
neither is placed in such proximity to any other such advertisement so as to
create a single "mosaic"-type advertisement larger than 14 square feet, nor
functions solely as a segment of a larger advertising unit or series), and that
is placed (A) on the outside of any retail establishment that sells Tobacco
Products (other than solely through a vending machine), (B) outside (but on the
property of) any such establishment, or (C) on the inside surface of a window
facing outward in any such establishment; (3) an advertisement inside a retail
establishment that sells Tobacco
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Products (other than solely through a vending machine) that is not placed on the
inside surface of a window facing outward; or (4) an outdoor advertisement at
the site of an event to be held at an Adult-Only Facility that is placed at such
site during the period the facility or enclosed area constitutes an Adult-Only
Facility, but in no event more than 14 days before the event, and that does not
advertise any Tobacco Product (other than by using a Brand Name to identify the
event).
(jj) "Participating Manufacturer" means a Tobacco Product Manufacturer
that is or becomes a signatory to this Agreement, provided that (1) in the case
of a Tobacco Product Manufacturer that is not an Original Participating
Manufacturer, such Tobacco Product Manufacturer is bound by this Agreement and
the Consent Decree (or, in any Settling State that does not permit amendment of
the Consent Decree, a consent decree containing terms identical to those set
forth in the Consent Decree) in all Settling States in which this Agreement and
the Consent Decree binds Original Participating Manufacturers (provided,
however, that such Tobacco Product Manufacturer need only become bound by the
Consent Decree in those Settling States in which the Settling State has filed a
Released Claim against it), and (2) in the case of a Tobacco Product
Manufacturer that signs this Agreement after the MSA Execution Date, such
Tobacco Product Manufacturer, within a reasonable period of time after signing
this Agreement, makes any payments (including interest thereon at the Prime
Rate) that it would have been obligated to make in the intervening period had it
been a signatory as of the MSA Execution Date. "Participating Manufacturer"
shall also include the successor of a Participating Manufacturer. Except as
expressly provided in this Agreement, once an entity becomes a Participating
Manufacturer such entity shall permanently retain the
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status of Participating Manufacturer. Each Participating Manufacturer shall
regularly report its shipments of Cigarettes in or to the fifty United States,
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to Management Science Associates, Inc.
(or a successor entity as set forth in subsection (mm)). Solely for purposes of
calculations pursuant to subsection IX(d), a Tobacco Product Manufacturer that
is not a signatory to this Agreement shall be deemed to be a "Participating
Manufacturer" if the Original Participating Manufacturers unanimously consent in
writing.
(kk) "Previously Settled States Reduction" means a reduction determined
by multiplying the amount to which such reduction applies by 12.4500000%, in the
case of payments due in or prior to 2007; 12.2373756%, in the case of payments
due after 2007 but before 2018; and 11.0666667%, in the case of payments due in
or after 2018.
(ll) "Prime Rate" shall mean the prime rate as published from time to
time by the Wall Street Journal or, in the event the Wall Street Journal is no
longer published or no longer publishes such rate, an equivalent successor
reference rate determined by the Independent Auditor.
(mm) "Relative Market Share" means an Original Participating
Manufacturer's respective share (expressed as a percentage) of the total number
of individual Cigarettes shipped in or to the fifty United States, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico by all the Original Participating Manufacturers
during the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which the payment at
issue is due (regardless of when such payment is made), as measured by the
Original Participating Manufacturers' reports of shipments of Cigarettes to
Management Science Associates, Inc. (or a successor entity acceptable to both
the Original Participating Manufacturers and a majority of those Attorneys
General
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who are both the Attorney General of a Settling State and a member of the NAAG
executive committee at the time in question). A Cigarette shipped by more than
one Participating Manufacturer shall be deemed to have been shipped solely by
the first Participating Manufacturer to do so. For purposes of the definition
and determination of "Relative Market Share," 0.09 ounces of "roll your own"
tobacco shall constitute one individual Cigarette.
(nn) "Released Claims" means:
(1) for past conduct, acts or omissions (including any damages
incurred in the future arising from such past conduct, acts or
omissions), those Claims directly or indirectly based on, arising out of
or in any way related, in whole or in part, to (A) the use, sale,
distribution, manufacture, development, advertising, marketing or health
effects of, (B) the exposure to, or (C) research, statements, or
warnings regarding, Tobacco Products (including, but not limited to, the
Claims asserted in the actions identified in Exhibit D, or any
comparable Claims that were, could be or could have been asserted now or
in the future in those actions or in any comparable action in federal,
state or local court brought by a Settling State or a Releasing Party
(whether or not such Settling State or Releasing Party has brought such
action)), except for claims not asserted in the actions identified in
Exhibit D for outstanding liability under existing licensing (or
similar) fee laws or existing tax laws (but not excepting claims for any
tax liability of the Tobacco-Related Organizations or of any Released
Party with respect to such Tobacco-Related Organizations, which claims
are covered by the release and covenants set forth in this Agreement);
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(2) for future conduct, acts or omissions, only those monetary
Claims directly or indirectly based on, arising out of or in any way
related to, in whole or in part, the use of or exposure to Tobacco
Products manufactured in the ordinary course of business, including
without limitation any future Claims for reimbursement of health care
costs allegedly associated with the use of or exposure to Tobacco
Products.
(oo) "Released Parties" means all Participating Manufacturers and their
past, present and future Affiliates, divisions, officers, directors, employees,
representatives, insurers, lenders, underwriters, Tobacco-Related Organizations,
trade associations, suppliers, agents, auditors, advertising agencies, public
relations entities, attorneys, retailers and distributors (and the predecessors,
heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of each of the
foregoing). Provided, however, that "Released Parties" does not include any
person or entity (including, but not limited to, an Affiliate) that is itself a
Non-Participating Manufacturer at any time after the MSA Execution Date, unless
such person or entity becomes a Participating Manufacturer.
(pp) "Releasing Parties" means each Settling State and any of its past,
present and future agents, officials acting in their official capacities, legal
representatives, agencies, departments, commissions and divisions; and also
means, to the full extent of the power of the signatories hereto to release
past, present and future claims, the following: (1) any Settling State's
subdivisions (political or otherwise, including, but not limited to,
municipalities, counties, parishes, villages, unincorporated districts and
hospital districts), public entities, public instrumentalities and public
educational institutions; and (2) persons or entities acting in a parens
patriae, sovereign,
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quasi-sovereign, private attorney general, qui tam, taxpayer, or any other
capacity, whether or not any of them participate in this settlement, (A) to the
extent that any such person or entity is seeking relief on behalf of or
generally applicable to the general public in such Settling State or the people
of the State, as opposed solely to private or individual relief for separate and
distinct injuries, or (B) to the extent that any such entity (as opposed to an
individual) is seeking recovery of health-care expenses (other than premium or
capitation payments for the benefit of present or retired state employees) paid
or reimbursed, directly or indirectly, by a Settling State.
(qq) "Settling State" means any State that signs this Agreement on or
before the MSA Execution Date. Provided, however, that the term "Settling
State" shall not include (1) the States of Mississippi, Florida, Texas and
Minnesota; and (2) any State as to which this Agreement has been terminated.
(rr) "State" means any state of the United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American
Samoa, and the Northern Marianas.
(ss) "State-Specific Finality" means, with respect to the Settling State in
question:
(1) this Agreement and the Consent Decree have been approved and
entered by the Court as to all Original Participating Manufacturers, or,
in the event of an appeal from or review of a decision of the Court to
withhold its approval and entry of this Agreement and the Consent
Decree, by the court hearing such appeal or conducting such review;
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(2) entry by the Court has been made of an order dismissing with
prejudice all claims against Released Parties in the action as provided
herein; and
(3) the time for appeal or to seek review of or permission to
appeal ("Appeal") from the approval and entry as described in subsection
(1)(A) hereof and entry of such order described in subsection (1)(B)
hereof has expired; or, in the event of an Appeal from such approval and
entry, the Appeal has been dismissed, or the approval and entry
described in (1)(A) hereof and the order described in subsection (1)(B)
hereof have been affirmed in all material respects by the court of last
resort to which such Appeal has been taken and such dismissal or
affirmance has become no longer subject to further Appeal (including,
without limitation, review by the United States Supreme Court).
(tt) "Subsequent Participating Manufacturer" means a Tobacco Product
Manufacturer (other than an Original Participating Manufacturer) that: (1) is a
Participating Manufacturer, and (2) is a signatory to this Agreement, regardless
of when such Tobacco Product Manufacturer became a signatory to this Agreement.
"Subsequent Participating Manufacturer" shall also include the successors of a
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer. Except as expressly provided in this
Agreement, once an entity becomes a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer such
entity shall permanently retain the status of Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer, unless it agrees to assume the obligations of an Original
Participating Manufacturer as provided in subsection XVIII(c).
(uu) "Tobacco Product Manufacturer" means an entity that after the MSA
Execution Date directly (and not exclusively through any Affiliate):
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(1) manufactures Cigarettes anywhere that such manufacturer
intends to be sold in the States, including Cigarettes intended to be
sold in the States through an importer (except where such importer is an
Original Participating Manufacturer that will be responsible for the
payments under this Agreement with respect to such Cigarettes as a
result of the provisions of subsections II(mm) and that pays the taxes
specified in subsection II(z) on such Cigarettes, and provided that the
manufacturer of such Cigarettes does not market or advertise such
Cigarettes in the States);
(2) is the first purchaser anywhere for resale in the States of
Cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the manufacturer does not intend
to be sold in the States; or
(3) becomes a successor of an entity described in subsection (1)
or (2) above.
The term "Tobacco Product Manufacturer" shall not include an Affiliate of a
Tobacco Product Manufacturer unless such Affiliate itself falls within any of
subsections (1) - (3) above.
(vv) "Tobacco Products" means Cigarettes and smokeless tobacco
products.
(ww) "Tobacco-Related Organizations" means the Council for Tobacco
Research-U.S.A., Inc., The Tobacco Institute, Inc. ("TI"), and the Center for
Indoor Air Research, Inc. ("CIAR") and the successors, if any, of TI or CIAR.
(xx) "Transit Advertisements" means advertising on or within private or
public vehicles and all advertisements placed at, on or within any bus stop,
taxi stand, transportation waiting area, train station, airport or any similar
location. Notwithstanding
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the foregoing, the term "Transit Advertisements" does not include (1) any
advertisement placed in, on or outside the premises of any retail establishment
that sells Tobacco Products (other than solely through a vending machine)
(except if such individual advertisement (A) occupies an area larger than 14
square feet; (B) is placed in such proximity to any other such advertisement so
as to create a single "mosaic"-type advertisement larger than 14 square feet; or
(C) functions solely as a segment of a larger advertising unit or series); or
(2) advertising at the site of an event to be held at an Adult-Only Facility
that is placed at such site during the period the facility or enclosed area
constitutes an Adult-Only Facility, but in no event more than 14 days before the
event, and that does not advertise any Tobacco Product (other than by using a
Brand Name to identify the event).
(yy) "Underage" means younger than the minimum age at which it is legal
to purchase or possess (whichever minimum age is older) Cigarettes in the
applicable Settling State.
(zz) "Video Game Arcade" means an entertainment establishment primarily
consisting of video games (other than video games intended primarily for use by
persons 18 years of age or older) and/or pinball machines.
(aaa) "Volume Adjustment" means an upward or downward adjustment in
accordance with the formula for volume adjustments set forth in Exhibit E.
(bbb) "Youth" means any person or persons under 18 years of age.
III. PERMANENT RELIEF
(a) PROHIBITION ON YOUTH TARGETING. No Participating Manufacturer may
take any action, directly or indirectly, to target Youth within any Settling
State in the advertising,
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promotion or marketing of Tobacco Products, or take any action the primary
purpose of which is to initiate, maintain or increase the incidence of Youth
smoking within any Settling State.
(b) BAN ON USE OF CARTOONS. Beginning 180 days after the MSA Execution
Date, no Participating Manufacturer may use or cause to be used any Cartoon in
the advertising, promoting, packaging or labeling of Tobacco Products.
(c) LIMITATION OF TOBACCO BRAND NAME SPONSORSHIPS.
(1) PROHIBITED SPONSORSHIPS. After the MSA Execution Date, no
Participating Manufacturer may engage in any Brand Name Sponsorship in
any State consisting of:
(A) concerts; or
(B) events in which the intended audience is comprised
of a significant percentage of Youth; or
(C) events in which any paid participants or contestants
are Youth; or
(D) any athletic event between opposing teams in any
football, basketball, baseball, soccer or hockey league.
(2) LIMITED SPONSORSHIPS.
(A) No Participating Manufacturer may engage in more
than one Brand Name Sponsorship in the States in any twelve-month
period (such period measured from the date of the initial
sponsored event).
(B) Provided, however, that
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(i) nothing contained in subsection (2)(A) above
shall require a Participating Manufacturer to breach or
terminate any sponsorship contract in existence as of
August 1, 1998 (until the earlier of (x) the current term
of any existing contract, without regard to any renewal
or option that may be exercised by such Participating
Manufacturer or (y) three years after the MSA Execution
Date); and
(ii) notwithstanding subsection (1)(A) above,
Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Tobacco Corporation may sponsor either
the GPC country music festival or the Kool jazz festival
as its one annual Brand Name Sponsorship permitted
pursuant to subsection (2)(A) as well as one Brand Name
Sponsorship permitted pursuant to subsection (2)(B)(i).
(3) RELATED SPONSORSHIP RESTRICTIONS. With respect to any Brand
Name Sponsorship permitted under this subsection (c):
(A) advertising of the Brand Name Sponsorship event
shall not advertise any Tobacco Product (other than by using the
Brand Name to identify such Brand Name Sponsorship event);
(B) no Participating Manufacturer may refer to a Brand
Name Sponsorship event or to a celebrity or other person in such
an event in its advertising of a Tobacco Product;
(C) nothing contained in the provisions of subsection
III(e) of this Agreement shall apply to actions taken by any
Participating Manufacturer
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in connection with a Brand Name Sponsorship permitted pursuant to
the provisions of subsections (2)(A) and (2)(B)(i); the Brand
Name Sponsorship permitted by subsection (2)(B)(ii) shall be
subject to the restrictions of subsection III(e) except that such
restrictions shall not prohibit use of the Brand Name to identify
the Brand Name Sponsorship;
(D) nothing contained in the provisions of subsections
III(f) and III(i) shall apply to apparel or other merchandise:
(i) marketed, distributed, offered, sold, or licensed at the site
of a Brand Name Sponsorship permitted pursuant to subsections
(2)(A) or (2)(B)(i) by the person to which the relevant
Participating Manufacturer has provided payment in exchange for
the use of the relevant Brand Name in the Brand Name Sponsorship
or a third-party that does not receive payment from the relevant
Participating Manufacturer (or any Affiliate of such
Participating Manufacturer) in connection with the marketing,
distribution, offer, sale or license of such apparel or other
merchandise; or (ii) used at the site of a Brand Name Sponsorship
permitted pursuant to subsection (2)(A) or (2)(B)(i) (during such
event) that are not distributed (by sale or otherwise) to any
member of the general public; and
(E) nothing contained in the provisions of subsection
III(d) shall: (i) apply to the use of a Brand Name on a vehicle
used in a Brand Name Sponsorship; or (ii) apply to Outdoor
Advertising advertising the Brand Name Sponsorship, to the extent
that such Outdoor Advertising is placed at the site of a Brand
Name Sponsorship no more than 90 days before the
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start of the initial sponsored event, is removed within 10 days
after the end of the last sponsored event, and is not prohibited
by subsection (3)(A) above.
(4) CORPORATE NAME SPONSORSHIPS. Nothing in this subsection (c)
shall prevent a Participating Manufacturer from sponsoring or causing to
be sponsored any athletic, musical, artistic, or other social or
cultural event, or any entrant, participant or team in such event (or
series of events) in the name of the corporation which manufactures
Tobacco Products, provided that the corporate name does not include any
Brand Name of domestic Tobacco Products.
(5) NAMING RIGHTS PROHIBITION. No Participating Manufacturer
may enter into any agreement for the naming rights of any stadium or
arena located within a Settling State using a Brand Name, and shall not
otherwise cause a stadium or arena located within a Settling State to be
named with a Brand Name.
(6) PROHIBITION ON SPONSORING TEAMS AND LEAGUES. No
Participating Manufacturer may enter into any agreement pursuant to
which payment is made (or other consideration is provided) by such
Participating Manufacturer to any football, basketball, baseball, soccer
or hockey league (or any team involved in any such league) in exchange
for use of a Brand Name.
(d) ELIMINATION OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING AND TRANSIT ADVERTISEMENTS.
Each Participating Manufacturer shall discontinue Outdoor Advertising and
Transit Advertisements advertising Tobacco Products within the Settling States
as set forth herein.
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(1) REMOVAL. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each
Participating Manufacturer shall remove from within the Settling States
within 150 days after the MSA Execution Date all of its (A) billboards
(to the extent that such billboards constitute Outdoor Advertising)
advertising Tobacco Products; (B) signs and placards (to the extent that
such signs and placards constitute Outdoor Advertising) advertising
Tobacco Products in arenas, stadiums, shopping malls and Video Game
Arcades; and (C) Transit Advertisements advertising Tobacco Products.
(2) PROHIBITION ON NEW OUTDOOR ADVERTISING AND TRANSIT
ADVERTISEMENTS. No Participating Manufacturer may, after the MSA
Execution Date, place or cause to be placed any new Outdoor Advertising
advertising Tobacco Products or new Transit Advertisements advertising
Tobacco Products within any Settling State.
(3) ALTERNATIVE ADVERTISING. With respect to those billboards
required to be removed under subsection (1) that are leased (as opposed
to owned) by any Participating Manufacturer, the Participating
Manufacturer will allow the Attorney General of the Settling State
within which such billboards are located to substitute, at the Settling
State's option, alternative advertising intended to discourage the use
of Tobacco Products by Youth and their exposure to second-hand smoke for
the remaining term of the applicable contract (without regard to any
renewal or option term that may be exercised by such Participating
Manufacturer). The Participating Manufacturer will bear the cost of the
lease through the end of such remaining term. Any other costs
associated with such alternative advertising will be borne by the
Settling State.
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(4) BAN ON AGREEMENTS INHIBITING ANTI-TOBACCO ADVERTISING. Each
Participating Manufacturer agrees that it will not enter into any
agreement that prohibits a third party from selling, purchasing or
displaying advertising discouraging the use of Tobacco Products or
exposure to second-hand smoke. In the event and to the extent that any
Participating Manufacturer has entered into an agreement containing any
such prohibition, such Participating Manufacturer agrees to waive such
prohibition in such agreement.
(5) DESIGNATION OF CONTACT PERSON. Each Participating
Manufacturer that has Outdoor Advertising or Transit Advertisements
advertising Tobacco Products within a Settling State shall, within 10
days after the MSA Execution Date, provide the Attorney General of such
Settling State with the name of a contact person to whom the Settling
State may direct inquiries during the time such Outdoor Advertising and
Transit Advertisements are being eliminated, and from whom the Settling
State may obtain periodic reports as to the progress of their
elimination.
(6) ADULT-ONLY FACILITIES. To the extent that any advertisement
advertising Tobacco Products located within an Adult-Only Facility
constitutes Outdoor Advertising or a Transit Advertisement, this
subsection (d) shall not apply to such advertisement, provided such
advertisement is not visible to persons outside such Adult-Only
Facility.
(e) PROHIBITION ON PAYMENTS RELATED TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND MEDIA. No
Participating Manufacturer may, beginning 30 days after the MSA Execution Date,
make, or cause to be made, any payment or other consideration to any other
person or entity to
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use, display, make reference to or use as a prop any Tobacco Product, Tobacco
Product package, advertisement for a Tobacco Product, or any other item bearing
a Brand Name in any motion picture, television show, theatrical production or
other live performance, live or recorded performance of music, commercial film
or video, or video game ("Media"); provided, however, that the foregoing
prohibition shall not apply to (1) Media where the audience or viewers are
within an Adult-Only Facility (provided such Media are not visible to persons
outside such Adult-Only Facility); (2) Media not intended for distribution or
display to the public; or (3) instructional Media concerning non-conventional
cigarettes viewed only by or provided only to smokers who are Adults.
(f) BAN ON TOBACCO BRAND NAME MERCHANDISE. Beginning July 1, 1999, no
Participating Manufacturer may, within any Settling State, market, distribute,
offer, sell, license or cause to be marketed, distributed, offered, sold or
licensed (including, without limitation, by catalogue or direct mail), any
apparel or other merchandise (other than Tobacco Products, items the sole
function of which is to advertise Tobacco Products, or written or electronic
publications) which bears a Brand Name. Provided, however, that nothing in this
subsection shall (1) require any Participating Manufacturer to breach or
terminate any licensing agreement or other contract in existence as of June 20,
1997 (this exception shall not apply beyond the current term of any existing
contract, without regard to any renewal or option term that may be exercised by
such Participating Manufacturer); (2) prohibit the distribution to any
Participating Manufacturer's employee who is not Underage of any item described
above that is intended for the personal use of such an employee; (3) require any
Participating Manufacturer to retrieve, collect or otherwise recover any item
that prior to the MSA Execution Date was marketed, distributed,
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offered, sold, licensed, or caused to be marketed, distributed, offered, sold or
licensed by such Participating Manufacturer; (4) apply to coupons or other items
used by Adults solely in connection with the purchase of Tobacco Products; or
(5) apply to apparel or other merchandise used within an Adult-Only Facility
that is not distributed (by sale or otherwise) to any member of the general
public.
(g) BAN ON YOUTH ACCESS TO FREE SAMPLES. After the MSA Execution Date,
no Participating Manufacturer may, within any Settling State, distribute or
cause to be distributed any free samples of Tobacco Products except in an
Adult-Only Facility. For purposes of this Agreement, a "free sample" does not
include a Tobacco Product that is provided to an Adult in connection with (1)
the purchase, exchange or redemption for proof of purchase of any Tobacco
Products (including, but not limited to, a free offer in connection with the
purchase of Tobacco Products, such as a "two-for-one" offer), or (2) the
conducting of consumer testing or evaluation of Tobacco Products with persons
who certify that they are Adults.
(h) BAN ON GIFTS TO UNDERAGE PERSONS BASED ON PROOFS OF PURCHASE.
Beginning one year after the MSA Execution Date, no Participating Manufacturer
may provide or cause to be provided to any person without sufficient proof that
such person is an Adult any item in exchange for the purchase of Tobacco
Products, or the furnishing of credits, proofs-of-purchase, or coupons with
respect to such a purchase. For purposes of the preceding sentence only, (1) a
driver's license or other government-issued identification (or legible photocopy
thereof), the validity of which is certified by the person to whom the item is
provided, shall by itself be deemed to be a sufficient form of proof of age; and
(2) in the case of items provided (or to be redeemed) at retail establishments,
a
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Participating Manufacturer shall be entitled to rely on verification of proof of
age by the retailer, where such retailer is required to obtain verification
under applicable federal, state or local law.
(i) LIMITATION ON THIRD-PARTY USE OF BRAND NAMES. After the MSA
Execution Date, no Participating Manufacturer may license or otherwise expressly
authorize any third party to use or advertise within any Settling State any
Brand Name in a manner prohibited by this Agreement if done by such
Participating Manufacturer itself. Each Participating Manufacturer shall,
within 10 days after the MSA Execution Date, designate a person (and provide
written notice to NAAG of such designation) to whom the Attorney General of any
Settling State may provide written notice of any such third-party activity that
would be prohibited by this Agreement if done by such Participating Manufacturer
itself. Following such written notice, the Participating Manufacturer will
promptly take commercially reasonable steps against any such non-de minimis
third-party activity. Provided, however, that nothing in this subsection shall
require any Participating Manufacturer to (1) breach or terminate any licensing
agreement or other contract in existence as of July 1, 1998 (this exception
shall not apply beyond the current term of any existing contract, without regard
to any renewal or option term that may be exercised by such Participating
Manufacturer); or (2) retrieve, collect or otherwise recover any item that prior
to the MSA Execution Date was marketed, distributed, offered, sold, licensed or
caused to be marketed, distributed, offered, sold or licensed by such
Participating Manufacturer.
(j) BAN ON NON-TOBACCO BRAND NAMES. No Participating Manufacturer may,
pursuant to any agreement requiring the payment of money or other valuable
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consideration, use or cause to be used as a brand name of any Tobacco Product
any nationally recognized or nationally established brand name or trade name of
any non-tobacco item or service or any nationally recognized or nationally
established sports team, entertainment group or individual celebrity. Provided,
however, that the preceding sentence shall not apply to any Tobacco Product
brand name in existence as of July 1, 1998. For the purposes of this
subsection, the term "other valuable consideration" shall not include an
agreement between two entities who enter into such agreement for the sole
purpose of avoiding infringement claims.
(k) MINIMUM PACK SIZE OF TWENTY CIGARETTES. No Participating
Manufacturer may, beginning 60 days after the MSA Execution Date and through and
including December 31, 2001, manufacture or cause to be manufactured for sale in
any Settling State any pack or other container of Cigarettes containing fewer
than 20 Cigarettes (or, in the case of roll-your-own tobacco, any package of
roll-your-own tobacco containing less than 0.60 ounces of tobacco). No
Participating Manufacturer may, beginning 150 days after the MSA Execution Date
and through and including December 31, 2001, sell or distribute in any Settling
State any pack or other container of Cigarettes containing fewer than 20
Cigarettes (or, in the case of roll-your-own tobacco, any package of
roll-your-own tobacco containing less than 0.60 ounces of tobacco). Each
Participating Manufacturer further agrees that following the MSA Execution Date
it shall not oppose, or cause to be opposed (including through any third party
or Affiliate), the passage by any Settling State of any legislative proposal or
administrative rule applicable to all Tobacco Product Manufacturers and all
retailers of Tobacco Products prohibiting the manufacture and sale of any pack
or other container of Cigarettes containing fewer than 20 Cigarettes
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(or, in the case of roll-your-own tobacco, any package of roll-your-own tobacco
containing less than 0.60 ounces of tobacco).
(l) CORPORATE CULTURE COMMITMENTS RELATED TO YOUTH ACCESS AND
CONSUMPTION. Beginning 180 days after the MSA Execution Date each Participating
Manufacturer shall:
(1) promulgate or reaffirm corporate principles that express and
explain its commitment to comply with the provisions of this Agreement
and the reduction of use of Tobacco Products by Youth, and clearly and
regularly communicate to its employees and customers its commitment to
assist in the reduction of Youth use of Tobacco Products;
(2) designate an executive level manager (and provide written
notice to NAAG of such designation) to identify methods to reduce Youth
access to, and the incidence of Youth consumption of, Tobacco Products;
and
(3) encourage its employees to identify additional methods to
reduce Youth access to, and the incidence of Youth consumption of,
Tobacco Products.
(m) LIMITATIONS ON LOBBYING. Following State-Specific Finality in a
Settling State:
(1) No Participating Manufacturer may oppose, or cause to be
opposed (including through any third party or Affiliate), the passage by
such Settling State (or any political subdivision thereof) of those
state or local legislative proposals or administrative rules described
in Exhibit F hereto intended by their terms to reduce Youth access to,
and the incidence of Youth consumption of, Tobacco Products. Provided,
however, that the foregoing does not prohibit any Participating
Manufacturer from (A) challenging enforcement of, or suing for
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declaratory or injunctive relief with respect to, any such legislation
or rule on any grounds; (B) continuing, after State-Specific Finality in
such Settling State, to oppose or cause to be opposed, the passage
during the legislative session in which State-Specific Finality in such
Settling State occurs of any specific state or local legislative
proposals or administrative rules introduced prior to the time of
State-Specific Finality in such Settling State; (C) opposing, or causing
to be opposed, any excise tax or income tax provision or user fee or
other payments relating to Tobacco Products or Tobacco Product
Manufacturers; or (D) opposing, or causing to be opposed, any state or
local legislative proposal or administrative rule that also includes
measures other than those described in Exhibit F.
(2) Each Participating Manufacturer shall require all of its
officers and employees engaged in lobbying activities in such Settling
State after State-Specific Finality, contract lobbyists engaged in
lobbying activities in such Settling State after State-Specific
Finality, and any other third parties who engage in lobbying activities
in such Settling State after State-Specific Finality on behalf of such
Participating Manufacturer ("lobbyist" and "lobbying activities" having
the meaning such terms have under the law of the Settling State in
question) to certify in writing to the Participating Manufacturer that
they:
(A) will not support or oppose any state, local or
federal legislation, or seek or oppose any governmental action,
on behalf of the Participating Manufacturer without the
Participating Manufacturer's express authorization (except where
such advance express authorization is not reasonably
practicable);
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(B) are aware of and will fully comply with this
Agreement and all laws and regulations applicable to their
lobbying activities, including, without limitation, those related
to disclosure of financial contributions. Provided, however,
that if the Settling State in question has in existence no laws
or regulations relating to disclosure of financial contributions
regarding lobbying activities, then each Participating
Manufacturer shall, upon request of the Attorney General of such
Settling State, disclose to such Attorney General any payment to
a lobbyist that the Participating Manufacturer knows or has
reason to know will be used to influence legislative or
administrative actions of the state or local government relating
to Tobacco Products or their use. Disclosures made pursuant to
the preceding sentence shall be filed in writing with the Office
of the Attorney General on the first day of February and the
first day of August of each year for any and all payments made
during the six month period ending on the last day of the
preceding December and June, respectively, with the following
information: (1) the name, address, telephone number and e-mail
address (if any) of the recipient; (2) the amount of each
payment; and (3) the aggregate amount of all payments described
in this subsection (2)(B) to the recipient in the calendar year;
and
(C) have reviewed and will fully abide by the
Participating Manufacturer's corporate principles promulgated
pursuant to this Agreement when acting on behalf of the
Participating Manufacturer.
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(3) No Participating Manufacturer may support or cause to be
supported (including through any third party or Affiliate) in Congress
or any other forum legislation or rules that would preempt, override,
abrogate or diminish such Settling State's rights or recoveries under
this Agreement. Except as specifically provided in this Agreement,
nothing herein shall be deemed to restrain any Settling State or
Participating Manufacturer from advocating terms of any national
settlement or taking any other positions on issues relating to tobacco.
(n) RESTRICTION ON ADVOCACY CONCERNING SETTLEMENT PROCEEDS. After the
MSA Execution Date, no Participating Manufacturer may support or cause to be
supported (including through any third party or Affiliate) the diversion of any
proceeds of this settlement to any program or use that is neither
tobacco-related nor health-related in connection with the approval of this
Agreement or in any subsequent legislative appropriation of settlement proceeds.
(o) DISSOLUTION OF THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE, INC., THE COUNCIL FOR TOBACCO
RESEARCH-U.S.A., INC. AND THE CENTER FOR INDOOR AIR RESEARCH, INC.
(1) The Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc. ("CTR") (a
not-for-profit corporation formed under the laws of the State of New
York) shall, pursuant to the plan of dissolution previously negotiated
and agreed to between the Attorney General of the State of New York and
CTR, cease all operations and be dissolved in accordance with the laws
of the State of New York (and with the preservation of all applicable
privileges held by any member company of CTR).
(2) The Tobacco Institute, Inc. ("TI") (a not-for-profit
corporation formed under the laws of the State of New York) shall,
pursuant to a plan of dissolution to
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be negotiated by the Attorney General of the State of New York and the
Original Participating Manufacturers in accordance with Exhibit G
hereto, cease all operations and be dissolved in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York and under the authority of the Attorney
General of the State of New York (and with the preservation of all
applicable privileges held by any member company of TI).
(3) Within 45 days after Final Approval, the Center for Indoor
Air Research, Inc. ("CIAR") shall cease all operations and be dissolved
in a manner consistent with applicable law and with the preservation of
all applicable privileges (including, without limitation, privileges
held by any member company of CIAR).
(4) The Participating Manufacturers shall direct the
Tobacco-Related Organizations to preserve all records that relate in any
way to issues raised in smoking-related health litigation.
(5) The Participating Manufacturers may not reconstitute CTR or
its function in any form.
(6) The Participating Manufacturers represent that they have the
authority to and will effectuate subsections (1) through (5) hereof.
(p) REGULATION AND OVERSIGHT OF NEW TOBACCO-RELATED TRADE ASSOCIATIONS.
(1) A Participating Manufacturer may form or participate in new
tobacco-related trade associations (subject to all applicable laws),
provided such associations agree in writing not to act in any manner
contrary to any provision of this Agreement. Each Participating
Manufacturer agrees that if any new tobacco-
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related trade association fails to so agree, such Participating
Manufacturer will not participate in or support such association.
(2) Any tobacco-related trade association that is formed or
controlled by one or more of the Participating Manufacturers after the
MSA Execution Date shall adopt by-laws governing the association's
procedures and the activities of its members, board, employees, agents
and other representatives with respect to the tobacco-related trade
association. Such by-laws shall include, among other things, provisions
that:
(A) each officer of the association shall be appointed
by the board of the association, shall be an employee of such
association, and during such officer's term shall not be a
director of or employed by any member of the association or by an
Affiliate of any member of the association;
(B) legal counsel for the association shall be
independent, and neither counsel nor any member or employee of
counsel's law firm shall serve as legal counsel to any member of
the association or to a manufacturer of Tobacco Products that is
an Affiliate of any member of the association during the time
that it is serving as legal counsel to the association; and
(C) minutes describing the substance of the meetings of
the board of directors of the association shall be prepared and
shall be maintained by the association for a period of at least
five years following their preparation.
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(3) Without limitation on whatever other rights to access they
may be permitted by law, for a period of seven years from the date any
new tobacco-related trade association is formed by any of the
Participating Manufacturers after the MSA Execution Date the antitrust
authorities of any Settling State may, for the purpose of enforcing this
Agreement, upon reasonable cause to believe that a violation of this
Agreement has occurred, and upon reasonable prior written notice (but in
no event less than 10 Business Days):
(A) have access during regular office hours to inspect
and copy all relevant non-privileged, non-work-product books,
records, meeting agenda and minutes, and other documents (whether
in hard copy form or stored electronically) of such association
insofar as they pertain to such believed violation; and
(B) interview the association's directors, officers and
employees (who shall be entitled to have counsel present) with
respect to relevant, non-privileged, non-work-product matters
pertaining to such believed violation.
Documents and information provided to Settling State antitrust authorities shall
be kept confidential by and among such authorities, and shall be utilized only
by the Settling States and only for the purpose of enforcing this Agreement or
the criminal law. The inspection and discovery rights provided to the Settling
States pursuant to this subsection shall be coordinated so as to avoid
repetitive and excessive inspection and discovery.
(q) PROHIBITION ON AGREEMENTS TO SUPPRESS RESEARCH. No Participating
Manufacturer may enter into any contract, combination or conspiracy with any
other
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Tobacco Product Manufacturer that has the purpose or effect of: (1) limiting
competition in the production or distribution of information about health
hazards or other consequences of the use of their products; (2) limiting or
suppressing research into smoking and health; or (3) limiting or suppressing
research into the marketing or development of new products. Provided, however,
that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to (1) require any Participating
Manufacturer to produce, distribute or otherwise disclose any information that
is subject to any privilege or protection; (2) preclude any Participating
Manufacturer from entering into any joint defense or joint legal interest
agreement or arrangement (whether or not in writing), or from asserting any
privilege pursuant thereto; or (3) impose any affirmative obligation on any
Participating Manufacturer to conduct any research.
(r) PROHIBITION ON MATERIAL MISREPRESENTATIONS. No Participating
Manufacturer may make any material misrepresentation of fact regarding the
health consequences of using any Tobacco Product, including any tobacco
additives, filters, paper or other ingredients. Nothing in this subsection
shall limit the exercise of any First Amendment right or the assertion of any
defense or position in any judicial, legislative or regulatory forum.
IV. PUBLIC ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
(a) After the MSA Execution Date, the Original Participating
Manufacturers and the Tobacco-Related Organizations will support an application
for the dissolution of any protective orders entered in each Settling State's
lawsuit identified in Exhibit D with respect only to those documents, indices
and privilege logs that have been produced as of the MSA Execution Date to such
Settling State and (1) as to which defendants have made
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no claim, or have withdrawn any claim, of attorney-client privilege, attorney
work-product protection, common interest/joint defense privilege (collectively,
"privilege"), trade-secret protection, or confidential or proprietary business
information; and (2) that are not inappropriate for public disclosure because of
personal privacy interests or contractual rights of third parties that may not
be abrogated by the Original Participating Manufacturers or the Tobacco-Related
Organizations.
(b) Notwithstanding State-Specific Finality, if any order, ruling or
recommendation was issued prior to September 17, 1998 rejecting a claim of
privilege or trade-secret protection with respect to any document or documents
in a lawsuit identified in Exhibit D, the Settling State in which such order,
ruling or recommendation was made may, no later than 45 days after the
occurrence of State-Specific Finality in such Settling State, seek public
disclosure of such document or documents by application to the court that issued
such order, ruling or recommendation and the court shall retain jurisdiction for
such purposes. The Original Participating Manufacturers and Tobacco-Related
Organizations do not consent to, and may object to, appeal from or otherwise
oppose any such application for disclosure. The Original Participating
Manufacturers and Tobacco-Related Organizations will not assert that the
settlement of such lawsuit has divested the court of jurisdiction or that such
Settling State lacks standing to seek public disclosure on any applicable
ground.
(c) The Original Participating Manufacturers will maintain at their
expense their Internet document websites accessible through
"XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxx.xxx" or a similar website until June 30, 2010. The Original
Participating Manufacturers will maintain the
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documents that currently appear on their respective websites and will add
additional documents to their websites as provided in this section IV.
(d) Within 180 days after the MSA Execution Date, each Original
Participating Manufacturer and Tobacco-Related Organization will place on its
website copies of the following documents, except as provided in subsections
IV(e) and IV(f) below:
(1) all documents produced by such Original Participating
Manufacturer or Tobacco-Related Organization as of the MSA Execution
Date in any action identified in Exhibit D or any action identified in
section 2 of Exhibit H that was filed by an Attorney General. Among
these documents, each Original Participating Manufacturer and
Tobacco-Related Organization will give the highest priority to (A) the
documents that were listed by the State of Washington as trial exhibits
in the STATE OF WASHINGTON v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., ET AL., No.
96-2-15056-8 SEA (Wash. Super. Ct., County of King); and (B) the
documents as to which such Original Participating Manufacturer or
Tobacco-Related Organization withdrew any claim of privilege as a result
of the re-examination of privilege claims pursuant to court order in
STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. X.X. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL., XX-00-0000-X
(Xxxx. Xx., Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx);
(2) all documents that can be identified as having been produced
by, and copies of transcripts of depositions given by, such Original
Participating Manufacturer or Tobacco-Related Organization as of the MSA
Execution Date in the litigation matters specified in section 1 of
Exhibit H; and
(3) all documents produced by such Original Participating
Manufacturer or Tobacco-Related Organization as of the MSA Execution
Date and listed by the
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plaintiffs as trial exhibits in the litigation matters specified in
section 2 of Exhibit H.
(e) Unless copies of such documents are already on its website, each
Original Participating Manufacturer and Tobacco-Related Organization will place
on its website copies of documents produced in any production of documents that
takes place on or after the date 30 days before the MSA Execution Date in any
federal or state court civil action concerning smoking and health. Copies of
any documents required to be placed on a website pursuant to this subsection
will be placed on such website within the later of 45 days after the MSA
Execution Date or within 45 days after the production of such documents in any
federal or state court action concerning smoking and health. This obligation
will continue until June 30, 2010. In placing such newly produced documents on
its website, each Original Participating Manufacturer or Tobacco-Related
Organization will identify, as part of its index to be created pursuant to
subsection IV(h), the action in which it produced such documents and the date on
which such documents were added to its website.
(f) Nothing in this section IV shall require any Original Participating
Manufacturer or Tobacco-Related Organization to place on its website or
otherwise disclose documents that: (1) it continues to claim to be privileged,
a trade secret, confidential or proprietary business information, or that
contain other information not appropriate for public disclosure because of
personal privacy interests or contractual rights of third parties; or (2)
continue to be subject to any protective order, sealing order or other order or
ruling that prevents or limits a litigant from disclosing such documents.
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(g) Oversized or multimedia records will not be required to be placed
on the Website, but each Original Participating Manufacturers and
Tobacco-Related Organizations will make any such records available to the public
by placing copies of them in the document depository established in THE STATE OF
MINNESOTA, ET AL. v. XXXXXX XXXXXX INCORPORATED, ET AL., C1-94-8565 (County of
Xxxxxx, District Court, 2d Judicial Cir.).
(h) Each Original Participating Manufacturer will establish an index
and other features to improve searchable access to the document images on its
website, as set forth in Exhibit I.
(i) Within 90 days after the MSA Execution Date, the Original
Participating Manufacturers will furnish NAAG with a project plan for completing
the Original Participating Manufacturers' obligations under subsection IV(h)
with respect to documents currently on their websites and documents being placed
on their websites pursuant to subsection IV(d). NAAG may engage a computer
consultant at the Original Participating Manufacturers' expense for a period not
to exceed two years and at a cost not to exceed $100,000. NAAG's computer
consultant may review such plan and make recommendations consistent with this
Agreement. In addition, within 120 days after the completion of the Original
Participating Manufacturers' obligations under subsection IV(d), NAAG's computer
consultant may make final recommendations with respect to the websites
consistent with this Agreement. In preparing these recommendations, NAAG's
computer consultant may seek input from Settling State officials, public health
organizations and other users of the websites.
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(j) The expenses incurred pursuant to subsection IV(i), and the
expenses related to documents of the Tobacco-Related Organizations, will be
severally shared among the Original Participating Manufacturers (allocated among
them according to their Relative Market Shares). All other expenses incurred
under this section will be borne by the Original Participating Manufacturer that
incurs such expense.
V. TOBACCO CONTROL AND UNDERAGE USE LAWS
Each Participating Manufacturer agrees that following State-Specific
Finality in a Settling State it will not initiate, or cause to be initiated, a
facial challenge against the enforceability or constitutionality of such
Settling State's (or such Settling State's political subdivisions') statutes,
ordinances and administrative rules relating to tobacco control enacted prior to
June 1, 1998 (other than a statute, ordinance or rule challenged in any lawsuit
listed in Exhibit M).
VI. ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL FOUNDATION
(a) FOUNDATION PURPOSES. The Settling States believe that a
comprehensive, coordinated program of public education and study is important to
further the remedial goals of this Agreement. Accordingly, as part of the
settlement of claims described herein, the payments specified in subsections
VI(b), VI(c), and IX(e) shall be made to a charitable foundation, trust or
similar organization (the "Foundation") and/or to a program to be operated
within the Foundation (the "National Public Education Fund"). The purposes of
the Foundation will be to support (1) the study of and programs to reduce Youth
Tobacco Product usage and Youth substance abuse in the States, and (2) the study
of and educational programs to prevent diseases associated with the use of
Tobacco Products in the States.
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(b) BASE FOUNDATION PAYMENTS. On March 31, 1999, and on March 31 of
each subsequent year for a period of nine years thereafter, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay its Relative Market Share of
$25,000,000 to fund the Foundation. The payments to be made by each of the
Original Participating Manufacturers pursuant to this subsection (b) shall be
subject to no adjustments, reductions, or offsets, and shall be paid to the
Escrow Agent (to be credited to the Subsection VI(b) Account), who shall
disburse such payments to the Foundation only upon the occurrence of
State-Specific Finality in at least one Settling State.
(c) NATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND PAYMENTS.
(1) Each Original Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay
its Relative Market Share of the following base amounts on the following
dates to the Escrow Agent for the benefit of the Foundation's National
Public Education Fund to be used for the purposes and as described in
subsections VI(f)(1), VI(g) and VI(h) below: $250,000,000 on March 31,
1999; $300,000,000 on March 31, 2000; $300,000,000 on March 31, 2001;
$300,000,000 on March 31, 2002; and $300,000,000 on March 31, 2003, as
such amounts are modified in accordance with this subsection (c). The
payment due on March 31, 1999 pursuant to this subsection (c)(1) is to
be credited to the Subsection (c) Account (First). The payments due on
or after March 31, 2000 pursuant to this subsection VI(c)(1) are to be
credited to the Subsection VI(c) Account (Subsequent).
(2) The payments to be made by the Original Participating
Manufacturers pursuant to this subsection (c), other than the payment
due on March 31, 1999, shall
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be subject to the Inflation Adjustment, the Volume Adjustment and the
offset for miscalculated or disputed payments described in subsection
XI(i).
(3) The payment made pursuant to this subsection (c) on March
31, 1999 shall be disbursed by the Escrow Agent to the Foundation only
upon the occurrence of State-Specific Finality in at least one Settling
State. Each remaining payment pursuant to this subsection (c) shall be
disbursed by the Escrow Agent to the Foundation only when State-Specific
Finality has occurred in Settling States having aggregate Allocable
Shares equal to at least 80% of the total aggregate Allocable Shares
assigned to all States that were Settling States as of the MSA Execution
Date.
(4) In addition to the payments made pursuant to this subsection
(c), the National Public Education Fund will be funded (A) in accordance
with subsection IX(e), and (B) through monies contributed by other
entities directly to the Foundation and designated for the National
Public Education Fund ("National Public Education Fund Contributions").
(5) The payments made by the Original Participating
Manufacturers pursuant to this subsection (c) and/or subsection IX(e)
and monies received from all National Public Education Fund
Contributions will be deposited and invested in accordance with the laws
of the state of incorporation of the Foundation.
(d) CREATION AND ORGANIZATION OF THE FOUNDATION. NAAG, through its
executive committee, will provide for the creation of the Foundation. The
Foundation shall be organized exclusively for charitable, scientific, and
educational purposes within the meaning of Internal Revenue Code section
501(c)(3). The organizational documents of
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the Foundation shall specifically incorporate the provisions of this Agreement
relating to the Foundation, and will provide for payment of the Foundation's
administrative expenses from the funds paid pursuant to subsection VI(b) or
VI(c). The Foundation shall be governed by a board of directors. The board of
directors shall be comprised of eleven directors. NAAG, the National Governors'
Association ("NGA"), and the National Conference of State Legislatures ("NCSL")
shall each select from its membership two directors. These six directors shall
select the five additional directors. One of these five additional directors
shall have expertise in public health issues. Four of these five additional
directors shall have expertise in medical, child psychology, or public health
disciplines. The board of directors shall be nationally geographically diverse.
(e) FOUNDATION AFFILIATION. The Foundation shall be formally
affiliated with an educational or medical institution selected by the board of
directors.
(f) FOUNDATION FUNCTIONS. The functions of the Foundation shall be:
(1) carrying out a nationwide sustained advertising and
education program to (A) counter the use by Youth of Tobacco Products,
and (B) educate consumers about the cause and prevention of diseases
associated with the use of Tobacco Products;
(2) developing and disseminating model advertising and education
programs to counter the use by Youth of substances that are unlawful for
use or purchase by Youth, with an emphasis on reducing Youth smoking;
monitoring and testing the effectiveness of such model programs; and,
based on the information received from such monitoring and testing,
continuing to develop and disseminate revised versions of such model
programs, as appropriate;
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(3) developing and disseminating model classroom education
programs and curriculum ideas about smoking and substance abuse in the
K-12 school system, including specific target programs for special
at-risk populations; monitoring and testing the effectiveness of such
model programs and ideas; and, based on the information received from
such monitoring and testing, continuing to develop and disseminate
revised versions of such model programs or ideas, as appropriate;
(4) developing and disseminating criteria for effective
cessation programs; monitoring and testing the effectiveness of such
criteria; and continuing to develop and disseminate revised versions of
such criteria, as appropriate;
(5) commissioning studies, funding research, and publishing
reports on factors that influence Youth smoking and substance abuse and
developing strategies to address the conclusions of such studies and
research;
(6) developing other innovative Youth smoking and substance
abuse prevention programs;
(7) providing targeted training and information for parents;
(8) maintaining a library open to the public of
Foundation-funded studies, reports and other publications related to the
cause and prevention of Youth smoking and substance abuse;
(9) tracking and monitoring Youth smoking and substance abuse,
with a focus on the reasons for any increases or failures to decrease
Youth smoking and
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substance abuse and what actions can be taken to reduce Youth smoking
and substance abuse;
(10) receiving, controlling, and managing contributions from
other entities to further the purposes described in this Agreement; and
(11) receiving, controlling, and managing such funds paid by the
Participating Manufacturers pursuant to subsections VI(b) and VI(c)
above.
(g) FOUNDATION GRANT-MAKING. The Foundation is authorized to make
grants from the National Public Education Fund to Settling States and their
political subdivisions to carry out sustained advertising and education programs
to (1) counter the use by Youth of Tobacco Products, and (2) educate consumers
about the cause and prevention of diseases associated with the use of Tobacco
Products. In making such grants, the Foundation shall consider whether the
Settling State or political subdivision applying for such grant:
(1) demonstrates the extent of the problem regarding Youth
smoking in such Settling State or political subdivision;
(2) either seeks the grant to implement a model program
developed by the Foundation or provides the Foundation with a specific
plan for such applicant's intended use of the grant monies, including
demonstrating such applicant's ability to develop an effective
advertising/education campaign and to assess the effectiveness of such
advertising/education campaign;
(3) has other funds readily available to carry out a sustained
advertising and education program to (A) counter the use by Youth of
Tobacco Products, and (B) educate consumers about the cause and
prevention of diseases associated with the use of Tobacco Products; and
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(4) is a Settling State that has not severed this section VI
from its settlement with the Participating Manufacturers pursuant to
subsection VI(i) below, or is a political subdivision in such a Settling
State.
(h) FOUNDATION ACTIVITIES. The Foundation shall not engage in, nor
shall any of the Foundation's money be used to engage in, any political
activities or lobbying, including, but not limited to, support of or opposition
to candidates, ballot initiatives, referenda or other similar activities. The
National Public Education Fund shall be used only for public education and
advertising regarding the addictiveness, health effects, and social costs
related to the use of tobacco products and shall not be used for any personal
attack on, or vilification of, any person (whether by name or business
affiliation), company, or governmental agency, whether individually or
collectively. The Foundation shall work to ensure that its activities are
carried out in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner. The
Foundation's activities (including the National Public Education Fund) shall be
carried out solely within the States. The payments described in subsections
VI(b) and VI(c) above are made at the direction and on behalf of Settling
States. By making such payments in such manner, the Participating Manufacturers
do not undertake and expressly disclaim any responsibility with respect to the
creation, operation, liabilities, or tax status of the Foundation or the
National Public Education Fund.
(i) SEVERANCE OF THIS SECTION. If the Attorney General of a Settling
State determines that such Settling State may not lawfully enter into this
section VI as a matter of applicable state law, such Attorney General may sever
this section VI from its settlement with the Participating Manufacturers by
giving written notice of such
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severance to each Participating Manufacturer and NAAG pursuant to subsection
XVIII(k) hereof. If any Settling State exercises its right to sever this
section VI, this section VI shall not be considered a part of the specific
settlement between such Settling State and the Participating Manufacturers, and
this section VI shall not be enforceable by or in such Settling State. The
payment obligation of subsections VI(b) and VI(c) hereof shall apply regardless
of a determination by one or more Settling States to sever section VI hereof;
provided, however, that if all Settling States sever section VI hereof, the
payment obligations of subsections (b) and (c) hereof shall be null and void.
If the Attorney General of a Settling State that severed this section VI
subsequently determines that such Settling State may lawfully enter into this
section VI as a matter of applicable state law, such Attorney General may
rescind such Settling State's previous severance of this section VI by giving
written notice of such rescission to each Participating Manufacturer and NAAG
pursuant to subsection XVIII(k). If any Settling State rescinds such severance,
this section VI shall be considered a part of the specific settlement between
such Settling State and the Participating Manufacturers (including for purposes
of subsection (g)(4)), and this section VI shall be enforceable by and in such
Settling State.
VII. ENFORCEMENT
(a) JURISDICTION. Each Participating Manufacturer and each Settling
State acknowledge that the Court: (1) has jurisdiction over the subject matter
of the action identified in Exhibit D in such Settling State and over each
Participating Manufacturer; (2) shall retain exclusive jurisdiction for the
purposes of implementing and enforcing this Agreement and the Consent Decree as
to such Settling State; and (3) except as provided in subsections IX(d), XI(c)
and XVII(d) and Exhibit O, shall be the only court to which
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disputes under this Agreement or the Consent Decree are presented as to such
Settling State. Provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Escrow Court (as defined in the Escrow Agreement) shall have exclusive
jurisdiction, as provided in section 15 of the Escrow Agreement, over any suit,
action or proceeding seeking to interpret or enforce any provision of, or based
on any right arising out of, the Escrow Agreement.
(b) ENFORCEMENT OF CONSENT DECREE. Except as expressly provided in the
Consent Decree, any Settling State or Released Party may apply to the Court to
enforce the terms of the Consent Decree (or for a declaration construing any
such term) with respect to alleged violations within such Settling State. A
Settling State may not seek to enforce the Consent Decree of another Settling
State; provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall affect the ability
of any Settling State to (1) coordinate state enforcement actions or
proceedings, or (2) file or join any amicus brief. In the event that the Court
determines that any Participating Manufacturer or Settling State has violated
the Consent Decree within such Settling State, the party that initiated the
proceedings may request any and all relief available within such Settling State
pursuant to the Consent Decree.
(c) ENFORCEMENT OF THIS AGREEMENT.
(1) Except as provided in subsections IX(d), XI(c), XVII(d) and
Exhibit O, any Settling State or Participating Manufacturer may bring an
action in the Court to enforce the terms of this Agreement (or for a
declaration construing any such term ("Declaratory Order")) with respect
to disputes, alleged violations or alleged breaches within such Settling
State.
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(2) Before initiating such proceedings, a party shall provide 30
days' written notice to the Attorney General of each Settling State, to
NAAG, and to each Participating Manufacturer of its intent to initiate
proceedings pursuant to this subsection. The 30-day notice period may
be shortened in the event that the relevant Attorney General reasonably
determines that a compelling time-sensitive public health and safety
concern requires more immediate action.
(3) In the event that the Court determines that any
Participating Manufacturer or Settling State has violated or breached
this Agreement, the party that initiated the proceedings may request an
order restraining such violation or breach, and/or ordering compliance
within such Settling State (an "Enforcement Order").
(4) If an issue arises as to whether a Participating
Manufacturer has failed to comply with an Enforcement Order, the
Attorney General for the Settling State in question may seek an order
for interpretation or for monetary, civil contempt or criminal sanctions
to enforce compliance with such Enforcement Order.
(5) If the Court finds that a good-faith dispute exists as to
the meaning of the terms of this Agreement or a Declaratory Order, the
Court may in its discretion determine to enter a Declaratory Order
rather than an Enforcement Order.
(6) Whenever possible, the parties shall seek to resolve an
alleged violation of this Agreement by discussion pursuant to subsection
XVIII(m) of this Agreement. In addition, in determining whether to seek
an Enforcement Order, or in determining whether to seek an order for
monetary, civil contempt or criminal
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sanctions for any claimed violation of an Enforcement Order, the
Attorney General shall give good-faith consideration to whether the
Participating Manufacturer that is claimed to have violated this
Agreement has taken appropriate and reasonable steps to cause the
claimed violation to be cured, unless such party has been guilty of a
pattern of violations of like nature.
(d) RIGHT OF REVIEW. All orders and other judicial determinations made
by any court in connection with this Agreement or any Consent Decree shall be
subject to all available appellate review, and nothing in this Agreement or any
Consent Decree shall be deemed to constitute a waiver of any right to any such
review.
(e) APPLICABILITY. This Agreement and the Consent Decree apply only to
the Participating Manufacturers in their corporate capacity acting through their
respective successors and assigns, directors, officers, employees, agents,
subsidiaries, divisions, or other internal organizational units of any kind or
any other entities acting in concert or participation with them. The remedies,
penalties and sanctions that may be imposed or assessed in connection with a
breach or violation of this Agreement or the Consent Decree (or any Declaratory
Order or Enforcement Order issued in connection with this Agreement or the
Consent Decree ) shall only apply to the Participating Manufacturers, and shall
not be imposed or assessed against any employee, officer or director of any
Participating Manufacturer, or against any other person or entity as a
consequence of such breach or violation, and the Court shall have no
jurisdiction to do so.
(f) COORDINATION OF ENFORCEMENT. The Attorneys General of the Settling
States (through NAAG) shall monitor potential conflicting interpretations by
courts of different States of this Agreement and the Consent Decrees. The
Settling States shall use their best
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efforts, in cooperation with the Participating Manufacturers, to coordinate and
resolve the effects of such conflicting interpretations as to matters that are
not exclusively local in nature.
(g) INSPECTION AND DISCOVERY RIGHTS. Without limitation on whatever
other rights to access they may be permitted by law, following State-Specific
Finality in a Settling State and for seven years thereafter, representatives of
the Attorney General of such Settling State may, for the purpose of enforcing
this Agreement and the Consent Decree, upon reasonable cause to believe that a
violation of this Agreement or the Consent Decree has occurred, and upon
reasonable prior written notice (but in no event less than 10 Business Days):
(1) have access during regular office hours to inspect and copy all relevant
non-privileged, non-work-product books, records, meeting agenda and minutes, and
other documents (whether in hard copy form or stored electronically) of each
Participating Manufacturer insofar as they pertain to such believed violation;
and (2) interview each Participating Manufacturer's directors, officers and
employees (who shall be entitled to have counsel present) with respect to
relevant, non-privileged, non-work-product matters pertaining to such believed
violation. Documents and information provided to representatives of the
Attorney General of such Settling State pursuant to this section VII shall be
kept confidential by the Settling States, and shall be utilized only by the
Settling States and only for purposes of enforcing this Agreement, the Consent
Decree and the criminal law. The inspection and discovery rights provided to
such Settling State pursuant to this subsection shall be coordinated through
NAAG so as to avoid repetitive and excessive inspection and discovery.
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VIII. CERTAIN ONGOING RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SETTLING STATES
(a) Upon approval of the NAAG executive committee, NAAG will provide
coordination and facilitation for the implementation and enforcement of this
Agreement on behalf of the Attorneys General of the Settling States, including
the following:
(1) NAAG will assist in coordinating the inspection and
discovery activities referred to in subsections III(p)(3) and VII(g)
regarding compliance with this Agreement by the Participating
Manufacturers and any new tobacco-related trade associations.
(2) NAAG will convene at least two meetings per year and one
major national conference every three years for the Attorneys General of
the Settling States, the directors of the Foundation and three persons
designated by each Participating Manufacturer. The purpose of the
meetings and conference is to evaluate the success of this Agreement and
coordinate efforts by the Attorneys General and the Participating
Manufacturers to continue to reduce Youth smoking.
(3) NAAG will periodically inform NGA, NCSL, the National
Association of Counties and the National League of Cities of the results
of the meetings and conferences referred to in subsection (a)(2) above.
(4) NAAG will support and coordinate the efforts of the
Attorneys General of the Settling States in carrying out their
responsibilities under this Agreement.
(5) NAAG will perform the other functions specified for it in
this Agreement, including the functions specified in section IV.
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(b) Upon approval by the NAAG executive committee to assume the
responsibilities outlined in subsection VIII(a) hereof, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall cause to be paid, beginning on December 31,
1998, and on December 31 of each year thereafter through and including December
31, 2007, its Relative Market Share of $150,000 per year to the Escrow Agent (to
be credited to the Subsection VIII(b) Account), who shall disburse such monies
to NAAG within 10 Business Days, to fund the activities described in subsection
VIII(a).
(c) The Attorneys General of the Settling States, acting through NAAG,
shall establish a fund ("The States' Antitrust/Consumer Protection Tobacco
Enforcement Fund") in the form attached as Exhibit J, which will be maintained
by such Attorneys General to supplement the Settling States' (1) enforcement and
implementation of the terms of this Agreement and the Consent Decrees, and (2)
investigation and litigation of potential violations of laws with respect to
Tobacco Products, as set forth in Exhibit J. Each Original Participating
Manufacturer shall on March 31, 1999, severally pay its Relative Market Share of
$50,000,000 to the Escrow Agent (to be credited to the Subsection VIII(c)
Account), who shall disburse such monies to NAAG upon the occurrence of
State-Specific Finality in at least one Settling State. Such funds will be used
in accordance with the provisions of Exhibit J.
IX. PAYMENTS
(a) ALL PAYMENTS INTO ESCROW. All payments made pursuant to this
Agreement (except those payments made pursuant to section XVII) shall be made
into escrow pursuant to the Escrow Agreement, and shall be credited to the
appropriate Account established pursuant to the Escrow Agreement. Such payments
shall be disbursed to the
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beneficiaries or returned to the Participating Manufacturers only as provided in
section XI and the Escrow Agreement. No payment obligation under this Agreement
shall arise (1) unless and until the Escrow Court has approved and retained
jurisdiction over the Escrow Agreement or (2) if such approval is reversed
(unless and until such reversal is itself reversed). The parties agree to
proceed as expeditiously as possible to resolve any issues that prevent approval
of the Escrow Agreement. If any payment (other than the first initial payment
under subsection IX(b)) is delayed because the Escrow Agreement has not been
approved, such payment shall be due and payable (together with interest at the
Prime Rate) within 10 Business Days after approval of the Escrow Agreement by
the Escrow Court.
(b) INITIAL PAYMENTS. On the second Business Day after the Escrow
Court approves and retains jurisdiction over the Escrow Agreement, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Escrow Agent (to be
credited to the Subsection IX(b) Account (First)) its Market Capitalization
Percentage (as set forth in Exhibit K) of the base amount of $2,400,000,000. On
January 10, 2000, each Original Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay
to the Escrow Agent its Relative Market Share of the base amount of
$2,472,000,000. On January 10, 2001, each Original Participating Manufacturer
shall severally pay to the Escrow Agent its Relative Market Share of the base
amount of $2,546,160,000. On January 10, 2002, each Original Participating
Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Escrow Agent its Relative Market Share
of the base amount of $2,622,544,800. On January 10, 2003, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Escrow Agent its Relative
Market Share of the base amount of $2,701,221,144. The payments pursuant to
this subsection (b) due on or
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after January 10, 2000 shall be credited to the Subsection IX(b) Account
(Subsequent). The foregoing payments shall be modified in accordance with this
subsection (b). The payments made by the Original Participating Manufacturers
pursuant to this subsection (b) (other than the first such payment) shall be
subject to the Volume Adjustment, the Non-Settling States Reduction and the
offset for miscalculated or disputed payments described in subsection XI(i).
The first payment due under this subsection (b) shall be subject to the
Non-Settling States Reduction, but such reduction shall be determined as of the
date one day before such payment is due (rather than the date 15 days before).
(c) ANNUAL PAYMENTS AND STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTION PAYMENTS.
(1) On April 15, 2000 and on April 15 of each year thereafter in
perpetuity, each Original Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay
to the Escrow Agent (to be credited to the Subsection IX(c)(1) Account)
its Relative Market Share of the base amounts specified below, as such
payments are modified in accordance with this subsection (c)(1):
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YEAR BASE AMOUNT
2000 $4,500,000,000
2001 $5,000,000,000
2002 $6,500,000,000
2003 $6,500,000,000
2004 $8,000,000,000
2005 $8,000,000,000
2006 $8,000,000,000
2007 $8,000,000,000
2008 $8,139,000,000
2009 $8,139,000,000
2010 $8,139,000,000
2011 $8,139,000,000
2012 $8,139,000,000
2013 $8,139,000,000
2014 $8,139,000,000
2015 $8,139,000,000
2016 $8,139,000,000
2017 $8,139,000,000
2018 and each year thereafter $9,000,000,000
The payments made by the Original Participating Manufacturers pursuant
to this subsection (c)(1) shall be subject to the Inflation Adjustment,
the Volume Adjustment, the Previously Settled States Reduction, the
Non-Settling States Reduction, the NPM Adjustment, the offset for
miscalculated or disputed payments described in subsection XI(i), the
Federal Tobacco Legislation Offset, the Litigating Releasing Parties
Offset, and the offsets for claims over described in subsections
XII(a)(4)(B) and XII(a)(8).
(2) On April 15, 2008 and on April 15 of each year thereafter
through 2017, each Original Participating Manufacturer shall severally
pay to the Escrow Agent (to be credited to the Subsection IX(c)(2)
Account) its Relative Market Share of the base amount of $861,000,000,
as such payments are modified in accordance with this subsection (c)(2).
The payments made by the Original
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Participating Manufacturers pursuant to this subsection (c)(2) shall be
subject to the Inflation Adjustment, the Volume Adjustment, the NPM
Adjustment, the offset for miscalculated or disputed payments described
in subsection XI(i), the Federal Tobacco Legislation Offset, the
Litigating Releasing Parties Offset, and the offsets for claims over
described in subsections XII(a)(4)(B) and XII(a)(8). Such payments
shall also be subject to the Non-Settling States Reduction; provided,
however, that for purposes of payments due pursuant to this subsection
(c)(2) (and corresponding payments by Subsequent Participating
Manufacturers under subsection IX(i)), the Non-Settling States Reduction
shall be derived as follows: (A) the payments made by the Original
Participating Manufacturers pursuant to this subsection (c)(2) shall be
allocated among the Settling States on a percentage basis to be
determined by the Settling States pursuant to the procedures set forth
in Exhibit U, and the resulting allocation percentages disclosed to the
Escrow Agent, the Independent Auditor and the Original Participating
Manufacturers not later than June 30, 1999; and (B) the Non-Settling
States Reduction shall be based on the sum of the Allocable Shares so
established pursuant to subsection (c)(2)(A) for those States that were
Settling States as of the MSA Execution Date and as to which this
Agreement has terminated as of the date 15 days before the payment in
question is due.
(d) NON-PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURER ADJUSTMENT.
(1) CALCULATION OF NPM ADJUSTMENT FOR ORIGINAL PARTICIPATING
MANUFACTURERS. To protect the public health gains achieved by this
Agreement, certain payments made pursuant to this Agreement shall be
subject to an NPM
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Adjustment. Payments by the Original Participating Manufacturers to
which the NPM Adjustment applies shall be adjusted as provided below:
(A) Subject to the provisions of subsections (d)(1)(C),
(d)(1)(D) and (d)(2) below, each Allocated Payment shall be
adjusted by subtracting from such Allocated Payment the product
of such Allocated Payment amount multiplied by the NPM Adjustment
Percentage. The "NPM Adjustment Percentage" shall be calculated
as follows:
(i) If the Market Share Loss for the year
immediately preceding the year in which the payment in
question is due is less than or equal to 0 (zero), then
the NPM Adjustment Percentage shall equal zero.
(ii) If the Market Share Loss for the year
immediately preceding the year in which the payment in
question is due is greater than 0 (zero) and less than or
equal to 16 2/3 percentage points, then the NPM
Adjustment Percentage shall be equal to the product of
(x) such Market Share Loss and (y) 3 (three).
(iii) If the Market Share Loss for the year
immediately preceding the year in which the payment in
question is due is greater than 16 2/3 percentage points,
then the NPM Adjustment Percentage shall be equal to the
sum of (x) 50 percentage points and (y) the product of
(1) the Variable Multiplier and (2) the result of such
Market Share Loss minus 16 2/3 percentage points.
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(B) Definitions:
(i) "Base Aggregate Participating Manufacturer
Market Share" means the result of (x) the sum of the
applicable Market Shares (the applicable Market Share to
be that for 1997) of all present and former Tobacco
Product Manufacturers that were Participating
Manufacturers during the entire calendar year immediately
preceding the year in which the payment in question is
due minus (y) 2 (two) percentage points.
(ii) "Actual Aggregate Participating Manufacturer
Market Share" means the sum of the applicable Market
Shares of all present and former Tobacco Product
Manufacturers that were Participating Manufacturers
during the entire calendar year immediately preceding the
year in which the payment in question is due (the
applicable Market Share to be that for the calendar year
immediately preceding the year in which the payment in
question is due).
(iii) "Market Share Loss" means the result of (x)
the Base Aggregate Participating Manufacturer Market
Share minus (y) the Actual Aggregate Participating
Manufacturer Market Share.
(iv) "Variable Multiplier" equals 50 divided by
the result of (x) the Base Aggregate Participating
Manufacturer Market Share minus (y) 16 2/3 percentage
points.
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(C) On or before February 2 of each year following a
year in which there was a Market Share Loss greater than zero, a
nationally recognized firm of economic consultants (the "Firm")
shall determine whether the disadvantages experienced as a result
of the provisions of this Agreement were a significant factor
contributing to the Market Share Loss for the year in question.
If the Firm determines that the disadvantages experienced as a
result of the provisions of this Agreement were a significant
factor contributing to the Market Share Loss for the year in
question, the NPM Adjustment described in subsection IX(d)(1)
shall apply. If the Firm determines that the disadvantages
experienced as a result of the provisions of this Agreement were
not a significant factor contributing to the Market Share Loss
for the year in question, the NPM Adjustment described in
subsection IX(d)(1) shall not apply. The Original Participating
Manufacturers, the Settling States, and the Attorneys General for
the Settling States shall cooperate to ensure that the
determination described in this subsection (1)(C) is timely made.
The Firm shall be acceptable to (and the principals responsible
for this assignment shall be acceptable to) both the Original
Participating Manufacturers and a majority of those Attorneys
General who are both the Attorney General of a Settling State and
a member of the NAAG executive committee at the time in question
(or in the event no such firm or no such principals shall be
acceptable to such parties, National Economic Research
Associates, Inc., or its successors by merger, acquisition or
otherwise ("NERA"), acting
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through a principal or principals acceptable to such parties, if
such a person can be identified and, if not, acting through a
principal or principals identified by NERA, or a successor firm
selected by the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution). As soon
as practicable after the MSA Execution Date, the Firm shall be
jointly retained by the Settling States and the Original
Participating Manufacturers for the purpose of making the
foregoing determination, and the Firm shall provide written
notice to each Settling State, to NAAG, to the Independent
Auditor and to each Participating Manufacturer of such
determination. The determination of the Firm with respect to
this issue shall be conclusive and binding upon all parties, and
shall be final and non-appealable. The reasonable fees and
expenses of the Firm shall be paid by the Original Participating
Manufacturers according to their Relative Market Shares. Only
the Participating Manufacturers and the Settling States, and
their respective counsel, shall be entitled to communicate with
the Firm with respect to the Firm's activities pursuant to this
subsection (1)(C).
(D) No NPM Adjustment shall be made with respect to a
payment if the aggregate number of Cigarettes shipped in or to
the fifty United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
in the year immediately preceding the year in which the payment
in question is due by those Participating Manufacturers that had
become Participating Manufacturers prior to 14 days after the MSA
Execution Date is greater than the aggregate number of Cigarettes
shipped in or to the fifty United States, the
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District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico in 1997 by such
Participating Manufacturers (and any of their Affiliates that
made such shipments in 1997, as demonstrated by certified audited
statements of such Affiliates' shipments, and that do not
continue to make such shipments after the MSA Execution Date
because the responsibility for such shipments has been
transferred to one of such Participating Manufacturers).
Measurements of shipments for purposes of this subsection (D)
shall be made in the manner prescribed in subsection II(mm); in
the event that such shipment data is unavailable for any
Participating Manufacturer for 1997, such Participating
Manufacturer's shipment volume for such year shall be measured in
the manner prescribed in subsection II(z).
(2) ALLOCATION AMONG SETTLING STATES OF NPM ADJUSTMENT FOR
ORIGINAL PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURERS.
(A) The NPM Adjustment set forth in subsection (d)(1)
shall apply to the Allocated Payments of all Settling States,
except as set forth below.
(B) A Settling State's Allocated Payment shall not be
subject to an NPM Adjustment: (i) if such Settling State
continuously had a Qualifying Statute (as defined in subsection
(2)(E) below) in full force and effect during the entire calendar
year immediately preceding the year in which the payment in
question is due, and diligently enforced the provisions of such
statute during such entire calendar year; or (ii) if such
Settling State enacted the Model Statute (as defined in
subsection (2)(E) below) for the first time during the calendar
year immediately preceding the year in
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which the payment in question is due, continuously had the Model
Statute in full force and effect during the last six months of
such calendar year, and diligently enforced the provisions of
such statute during the period in which it was in full force and
effect.
(C) The aggregate amount of the NPM Adjustments that
would have applied to the Allocated Payments of those Settling
States that are not subject to an NPM Adjustment pursuant to
subsection (2)(B) shall be reallocated among all other Settling
States pro rata in proportion to their respective Allocable
Shares (the applicable Allocable Shares being those listed in
Exhibit A), and such other Settling States' Allocated Payments
shall be further reduced accordingly.
(D) This subsection (2)(D) shall apply if the amount of
the NPM Adjustment applied pursuant to subsection (2)(A) to any
Settling State plus the amount of the NPM Adjustments reallocated
to such Settling State pursuant to subsection (2)(C) in any
individual year would either (i) exceed such Settling State's
Allocated Payment in that year, or (ii) if subsection (2)(F)
applies to the Settling State in question, exceed 65% of such
Settling State's Allocated Payment in that year. For each
Settling State that has an excess as described in the preceding
sentence, the excess amount of NPM Adjustment shall be further
reallocated among all other Settling States whose Allocated
Payments are subject to an NPM Adjustment and that do not have
such an excess, pro rata in proportion to their respective
Allocable Shares, and such other Settling States' Allocated
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Payments shall be further reduced accordingly. The provisions of
this subsection (2)(D) shall be repeatedly applied in any
individual year until either (i) the aggregate amount of NPM
Adjustments has been fully reallocated or (ii) the full amount of
the NPM Adjustments subject to reallocation under subsection
(2)(C) or (2)(D) cannot be fully reallocated in any individual
year as described in those subsections because (x) the Allocated
Payment in that year of each Settling State that is subject to an
NPM Adjustment and to which subsection (2)(F) does not apply has
been reduced to zero, and (y) the Allocated Payment in that year
of each Settling State to which subsection (2)(F) applies has
been reduced to 35% of such Allocated Payment.
(E) A "Qualifying Statute" means a Settling State's
statute, regulation, law and/or rule (applicable everywhere the
Settling State has authority to legislate) that effectively and
fully neutralizes the cost disadvantages that the Participating
Manufacturers experience vis- -vis Non-Participating
Manufacturers within such Settling State as a result of the
provisions of this Agreement. Each Participating Manufacturer
and each Settling State agree that the model statute in the form
set forth in Exhibit T (the "Model Statute"), if enacted without
modification or addition (except for particularized state
procedural or technical requirements) and not in conjunction with
any other legislative or regulatory proposal, shall constitute a
Qualifying Statute. Each Participating Manufacturer agrees to
support the enactment of such Model
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Statute if such Model Statute is introduced or proposed (i)
without modification or addition (except for particularized
procedural or technical requirements), and (ii) not in
conjunction with any other legislative proposal.
(F) If a Settling State (i) enacts the Model Statute
without any modification or addition (except for particularized
state procedural or technical requirements) and not in
conjunction with any other legislative or regulatory proposal,
(ii) uses its best efforts to keep the Model Statute in full
force and effect by, among other things, defending the Model
Statute fully in any litigation brought in state or federal court
within such Settling State (including litigating all available
appeals that may affect the effectiveness of the Model Statute),
and (iii) otherwise complies with subsection (2)(B), but a court
of competent jurisdiction nevertheless invalidates or renders
unenforceable the Model Statute with respect to such Settling
State, and but for such ruling the Settling State would have been
exempt from an NPM Adjustment under subsection (2)(B), then the
NPM Adjustment (including reallocations pursuant to subsections
(2)(C) and (2)(D)) shall still apply to such Settling State's
Allocated Payments but in any individual year shall not exceed
65% of the amount of such Allocated Payments.
(G) In the event a Settling State proposes and/or enacts
a statute, regulation, law and/or rule (applicable everywhere the
Settling State has authority to legislate) that is not the Model
Statute and asserts that such
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statute, regulation, law and/or rule is a Qualifying Statute, the
Firm shall be jointly retained by the Settling States and the
Original Participating Manufacturers for the purpose of
determining whether or not such statute, regulation, law and/or
rule constitutes a Qualifying Statute. The Firm shall make the
foregoing determination within 90 days of a written request to it
from the relevant Settling State (copies of which request the
Settling State shall also provide to all Participating
Manufacturers and the Independent Auditor), and the Firm shall
promptly thereafter provide written notice of such determination
to the relevant Settling State, NAAG, all Participating
Manufacturers and the Independent Auditor. The determination of
the Firm with respect to this issue shall be conclusive and
binding upon all parties, and shall be final and non-appealable;
provided, however, (i) that such determination shall be of no
force and effect with respect to a proposed statute, regulation,
law and/or rule that is thereafter enacted with any modification
or addition; and (ii) that the Settling State in which the
Qualifying Statute was enacted and any Participating Manufacturer
may at any time request that the Firm reconsider its
determination as to this issue in light of subsequent events
(including, without limitation, subsequent judicial review,
interpretation, modification and/or disapproval of a Settling
State's Qualifying Statute, and the manner and/or the effect of
enforcement of such Qualifying Statute). The Original
Participating Manufacturers shall severally pay their Relative
Market Shares of the reasonable fees and expenses of the Firm.
Only the
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Participating Manufacturers and Settling States, and their
respective counsel, shall be entitled to communicate with the
Firm with respect to the Firm's activities pursuant to this
subsection (2)(G).
(H) Except as provided in subsection (2)(F), in the
event a Qualifying Statute is enacted within a Settling State and
is thereafter invalidated or declared unenforceable by a court of
competent jurisdiction, otherwise rendered not in full force and
effect, or, upon reconsideration by the Firm pursuant to
subsection (2)(G) determined not to constitute a Qualifying
Statute, then such Settling State's Allocated Payments shall be
fully subject to an NPM Adjustment unless and until the
requirements of subsection (2)(B) have been once again satisfied.
(3) ALLOCATION OF NPM ADJUSTMENT AMONG ORIGINAL PARTICIPATING
MANUFACTURERS. The portion of the total amount of the NPM Adjustment to
which the Original Participating Manufacturers are entitled in any year
that can be applied in such year consistent with subsection IX(d)(2)
(the "Available NPM Adjustment") shall be allocated among them as
provided in this subsection IX(d)(3).
(A) The "Base NPM Adjustment" shall be determined for
each Original Participating Manufacturer in such year as follows:
(i) For those Original Participating
Manufacturers whose Relative Market Shares in the year
immediately preceding the year in which the NPM
Adjustment in question is applied exceed or are
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equal to their respective 1997 Relative Market Shares,
the Base NPM Adjustment shall equal 0 (zero).
(ii) For those Original Participating
Manufacturers whose Relative Market Shares in the year
immediately preceding the year in which the NPM
Adjustment in question is applied are less than their
respective 1997 Relative Market Shares, the Base NPM
Adjustment shall equal the result of (x) the difference
between such Original Participating Manufacturer's
Relative Market Share in such preceding year and its 1997
Relative Market Share multiplied by both (y) the number
of individual Cigarettes (expressed in thousands of
units) shipped in or to the United States, the District
of Columbia and Puerto Rico by all the Original
Participating Manufacturers in such preceding year
(determined in accordance with subsection II(mm)) and (z)
$20 per each thousand units of Cigarettes (as this number
is adjusted pursuant to subsection IX(d)(3)(C) below).
(iii) For those Original Participating
Manufacturers whose Base NPM Adjustment, if calculated
pursuant to subsection (ii) above, would exceed $300
million (as this number is adjusted pursuant to
subsection IX(d)(3)(C) below), the Base NPM Adjustment
shall equal $300 million (or such adjusted number, as
provided in subsection IX(d)(3)(C) below).
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(B) The share of the Available NPM Adjustment each
Original Participating Manufacturer is entitled to shall be
calculated as follows:
(i) If the Available NPM Adjustment the Original
Participating Manufacturers are entitled to in any year
is less than or equal to the sum of the Base NPM
Adjustments of all Original Participating Manufacturers
in such year, then such Available NPM Adjustment shall be
allocated among those Original Participating
Manufacturers whose Base NPM Adjustment is not equal to 0
(zero) pro rata in proportion to their respective Base
NPM Adjustments.
(ii) If the Available NPM Adjustment the Original
Participating Manufacturers are entitled to in any year
exceeds the sum of the Base NPM Adjustments of all
Original Participating Manufacturers in such year, then
(x) the difference between such Available NPM Adjustment
and such sum of the Base NPM Adjustments shall be
allocated among the Original Participating Manufacturers
pro rata in proportion to their Relative Market Shares
(the applicable Relative Market Shares to be those in the
year immediately preceding such year), and (y) each
Original Participating Manufacturer's share of such
Available NPM Adjustment shall equal the sum of (1) its
Base NPM Adjustment for such year, and (2) the amount
allocated to such Original Participating Manufacturer
pursuant to clause (x).
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(iii) If an Original Participating Manufacturer's
share of the Available NPM Adjustment calculated pursuant
to subsection IX(d)(3)(B)(i) or IX(d)(3)(B)(ii) exceeds
such Original Participating Manufacturer's payment amount
to which such NPM Adjustment applies (as such payment
amount has been determined pursuant to step B of clause
"Seventh" of subsection IX(j)), then (1) such Original
Participating Manufacturer's share of the Available NPM
Adjustment shall equal such payment amount, and (2) such
excess shall be reallocated among the other Original
Participating Manufacturers pro rata in proportion to
their Relative Market Shares.
(C) Adjustments:
(i) For calculations made pursuant to this
subsection IX(d)(3) (if any) with respect to payments due
in the year 2000, the number used in subsection
IX(d)(3)(A)(ii)(z) shall be $20 and the number used in
subsection IX(d)(3)(A)(iii) shall be $300 million. Each
year thereafter, both these numbers shall be adjusted
upward or downward by multiplying each of them by the
quotient produced by dividing (x) the average revenue per
Cigarette of all the Original Participating Manufacturers
in the year immediately preceding such year, by (y) the
average revenue per Cigarette of all the Original
Participating Manufacturers in the year immediately
preceding such immediately preceding year.
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(ii) For purposes of this subsection, the average
revenue per Cigarette of all the Original Participating
Manufacturers in any year shall equal (x) the aggregate
revenues of all the Original Participating Manufacturers
from sales of Cigarettes in the fifty United States, the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico after Federal excise
taxes and after payments pursuant to this Agreement and
the tobacco litigation Settlement Agreements with the
States of Florida, Mississippi, Minnesota and Texas (as
such revenues are reported to the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") for such year
(either independently by the Original Participating
Manufacturer or as part of consolidated financial
statements reported to the SEC by an Affiliate of the
Original Participating Manufacturers) or, in the case of
an Original Participating Manufacturer that does not
report income to the SEC, as reported in financial
statements prepared in accordance with United States
generally accepted accounting principles and audited by a
nationally recognized accounting firm), divided by (y)
the aggregate number of the individual Cigarettes shipped
in or to the United States, the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico by all the Original Participating
Manufacturers in such year (determined in accordance with
subsection II(mm)).
(D) In the event that in the year immediately preceding
the year in which the NPM Adjustment in question is applied both
(x) the Relative
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Market Share of Lorillard Tobacco Company (or of its successor)
("Lorillard") was less than or equal to 20.0000000%, and (y) the
number of individual Cigarettes shipped in or to the United
States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico by Lorillard
(determined in accordance with subsection II(mm)) (for purposes
of this subsection (D), "Volume") was less than or equal to 70
billion, Lorillard's and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Incorporated's (or its
successor's) ("Xxxxxx Xxxxxx") shares of the Available NPM
Adjustment calculated pursuant to subsections (3)(A)-(C) above
shall be further reallocated between Lorillard and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
as follows (this subsection (3)(D) shall not apply in the year in
which either of the two conditions specified in this sentence is
not satisfied):
(i) Notwithstanding subsections (A)-(C) of this
subsection (d)(3), but subject to further adjustment
pursuant to subsections (D)(ii) and (D)(iii) below,
Lorillard's share of the Available NPM Adjustment shall
equal its Relative Market Share of such Available NPM
Adjustment (the applicable Relative Market Share to be
that in the year immediately preceding the year in which
such NPM Adjustment is applied). The dollar amount of
the difference between the share of the Available NPM
Adjustment Lorillard is entitled to pursuant to the
preceding sentence and the share of the Available NPM
Adjustment it would be entitled to in the same year
pursuant to subsections (d)(3)(A)-(C) shall be
reallocated to Xxxxxx Xxxxxx and used to decrease or
increase, as the case may be,
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxx'x share of the Available NPM Adjustment in
such year calculated pursuant to subsections
(d)(3)(A)-(C).
(ii) In the event that in the year immediately
preceding the year in which the NPM Adjustment in
question is applied either (x) Lorillard's Relative
Market Share was greater than 15.0000000% (but did not
exceed 20.0000000%), or (y) Lorillard's Volume was
greater than 50 billion (but did not exceed 70 billion),
or both, Lorillard's share of the Available NPM
Adjustment calculated pursuant to subsection (d)(3)(D)(i)
shall be reduced by a percentage equal to the greater of
(0) 00.0000000% for each percentage point (or fraction
thereof) of excess of such Relative Market Share over
15.0000000% (if any), or (0) 0.0000000% for each billion
(or fraction thereof) of excess of such Volume over 50
billion (if any). The dollar amount by which Lorillard's
share of the Available NPM Adjustment is reduced in any
year pursuant to this subsection (D)(ii) shall be
reallocated to Xxxxxx Xxxxxx and used to increase Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx'x share of the Available NPM Adjustment in such
year.
(iii) In the event that in any year a
reallocation of the shares of the Available NPM
Adjustment between Lorillard and Xxxxxx Xxxxxx pursuant
to this subsection (d)(3)(D) results in Xxxxxx Xxxxxx'x
share of the Available NPM Adjustment in such year
exceeding the greater of (x) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx'x Relative
Market Share
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of such Available NPM Adjustment (the applicable Relative
Market Share to be that in the year immediately preceding
such year), or (y) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx'x share of the Available
NPM Adjustment in such year calculated pursuant to
subsections (d)(3)(A)-(C), Xxxxxx Xxxxxx'x share of the
Available NPM Adjustment in such year shall be reduced to
equal the greater of (x) or (y) above. In such instance,
the dollar amount by which Xxxxxx Xxxxxx'x share of the
Available NPM Adjustment is reduced pursuant to the
preceding sentence shall be reallocated to Lorillard and
used to increase Lorillard's share of the Available NPM
Adjustment in such year.
(iv) In the event that either Xxxxxx Xxxxxx or
Lorillard is treated as a Non-Participating Manufacturer
for purposes of this subsection IX(d)(3) pursuant to
subsection XVIII(w)(2)(A), this subsection (3)(D) shall
not be applied, and the Original Participating
Manufacturers' shares of the Available NPM Adjustment
shall be determined solely as described in subsections
(3)(A)-(C).
(4) NPM ADJUSTMENT FOR SUBSEQUENT PARTICIPATING
MANUFACTURERS. Subject to the provisions of subsection IX(i)(3),
a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer shall be entitled to an
NPM Adjustment with respect to payments due from such Subsequent
Participating Manufacturer in any year during which an NPM
Adjustment is applicable under subsection (d)(1) above to
payments due
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from the Original Participating Manufacturers. The amount of such NPM
Adjustment shall equal the product of (A) the NPM Adjustment Percentage
for such year multiplied by (B) the sum of the payments due in the year
in question from such Subsequent Participating Manufacturer that
correspond to payments due from Original Participating Manufacturers
pursuant to subsection IX(c) (as such payment amounts due from such
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer have been adjusted and allocated
pursuant to clauses "First" through "Fifth" of subsection IX(j)). The
NPM Adjustment to payments by each Subsequent Participating Manufacturer
shall be allocated and reallocated among the Settling States in a manner
consistent with subsection (d)(2) above.
(e) SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENTS. Beginning on April 15, 2004, and on April
15 of each year thereafter in perpetuity, in the event that the sum of the
Market Shares of the Participating Manufacturers that were Participating
Manufacturers during the entire calendar year immediately preceding the year in
which the payment in question would be due (the applicable Market Share to be
that for the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which the payment
in question would be due) equals or exceeds 99.0500000%, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Escrow Agent (to be
credited to the Subsection IX(e) Account) for the benefit of the Foundation its
Relative Market Share of the base amount of $300,000,000, as such payments are
modified in accordance with this subsection (e). Such payments shall be
utilized by the Foundation to fund the national public education functions of
the Foundation described in subsection VI(f)(1), in the manner described in and
subject to the provisions of subsections VI(g) and VI(h). The payments made by
the Original Participating
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Manufacturers pursuant to this subsection shall be subject to the Inflation
Adjustment, the Volume Adjustment, the Non-Settling States Reduction, and the
offset for miscalculated or disputed payments described in subsection XI(i).
(f) PAYMENT RESPONSIBILITY. The payment obligations of each
Participating Manufacturer pursuant to this Agreement shall be the several
responsibility only of that Participating Manufacturer. The payment obligations
of a Participating Manufacturer shall not be the obligation or responsibility of
any Affiliate of such Participating Manufacturer. The payment obligations of a
Participating Manufacturer shall not be the obligation or responsibility of any
other Participating Manufacturer. Provided, however, that no provision of this
Agreement shall waive or excuse liability under any state or federal fraudulent
conveyance or fraudulent transfer law. Any Participating Manufacturer whose
Market Share (or Relative Market Share) in any given year equals zero shall have
no payment obligations under this Agreement in the succeeding year.
(g) CORPORATE STRUCTURES. Due to the particular corporate structures
of X.X. Xxxxxxxx Tobacco Company ("Xxxxxxxx") and Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Tobacco
Corporation ("B&W") with respect to their non-domestic tobacco operations,
Xxxxxxxx and B&W shall be severally liable for their respective shares of each
payment due pursuant to this Agreement up to (and their liability hereunder
shall not exceed) the full extent of their assets used in and earnings derived
from, the manufacture and/or sale in the States of Tobacco Products intended for
domestic consumption, and no recourse shall be had against any of their other
assets or earnings to satisfy such obligations.
(h) ACCRUAL OF INTEREST. Except as expressly provided otherwise in
this Agreement, any payment due hereunder and not paid when due (or payments
requiring
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the accrual of interest under subsection XI(d)) shall accrue interest from and
including the date such payment is due until (but not including) the date paid
at the Prime Rate plus three percentage points.
(i) PAYMENTS BY SUBSEQUENT PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURERS.
(1) A Subsequent Participating Manufacturer shall have payment
obligations under this Agreement only in the event that its Market Share
in any calendar year exceeds 125 percent of its 1997 Market Share
(subject to the provisions of subsection (i)(4)). In the year following
any such calendar year, such Subsequent Participating Manufacturer shall
make payments corresponding to those due in that same following year
from the Original Participating Manufacturers pursuant to subsections
VI(c) (except for the payment due on March 31, 1999), IX(c)(1), IX(c)(2)
and IX(e). The amounts of such corresponding payments by a Subsequent
Participating Manufacturer are in addition to the corresponding payments
that are due from the Original Participating Manufacturers and shall be
determined as described in subsections (2) and (3) below. Such payments
by a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer shall (A) be due on the same
dates as the corresponding payments are due from Original Participating
Manufacturers; (B) be for the same purpose as such corresponding
payments; and (C) be paid, allocated and distributed in the same manner
as such corresponding payments.
(2) The base amount due from a Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer on any given date shall be determined by multiplying (A)
the corresponding base amount due on the same date from all of the
Original Participating Manufacturers
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(as such base amount is specified in the corresponding subsection of
this Agreement and is adjusted by the Volume Adjustment (except for the
provisions of subsection (B)(ii) of Exhibit E), but before such base
amount is modified by any other adjustments, reductions or offsets) by
(B) the quotient produced by dividing (i) the result of (x) such
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer's applicable Market Share (the
applicable Market Share being that for the calendar year immediately
preceding the year in which the payment in question is due) minus (y)
125 percent of its 1997 Market Share, by (ii) the aggregate Market
Shares of the Original Participating Manufacturers (the applicable
Market Shares being those for the calendar year immediately preceding
the year in which the payment in question is due).
(3) Any payment due from a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer
under subsections (1) and (2) above shall be subject (up to the full
amount of such payment) to the Inflation Adjustment, the Non-Settling
States Reduction, the NPM Adjustment, the offset for miscalculated or
disputed payments described in subsection XI(i), the Federal Tobacco
Legislation Offset, the Litigating Releasing Parties Offset and the
offsets for claims over described in subsections XII(a)(4)(B) and
XII(a)(8), to the extent that such adjustments, reductions or offsets
would apply to the corresponding payment due from the Original
Participating Manufacturers. Provided, however, that all adjustments
and offsets to which a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer is entitled
may only be applied against payments by such Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer, if any, that are due within 12 months after the date on
which the Subsequent Participating
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Manufacturer becomes entitled to such adjustment or makes the payment
that entitles it to such offset, and shall not be carried forward beyond
that time even if not fully used.
(4) For purposes of this subsection (i), the 1997 Market Share
(and 125 percent thereof) of those Subsequent Participating
Manufacturers that either (A) became a signatory to this Agreement more
than 60 days after the MSA Execution Date or (B) had no Market Share in
1997, shall equal zero.
(j) ORDER OF APPLICATION OF ALLOCATIONS, OFFSETS, REDUCTIONS AND
ADJUSTMENTS. The payments due under this Agreement shall be calculated as set
forth below. The "base amount" referred to in clause "First" below shall mean
(1) in the case of payments due from Original Participating Manufacturers, the
base amount referred to in the subsection establishing the payment obligation in
question; and (2) in the case of payments due from a Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer, the base amount referred to in subsection (i)(2) for such
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer. In the event that a particular
adjustment, reduction or offset referred to in a clause below does not apply to
the payment being calculated, the result of the clause in question shall be
deemed to be equal to the result of the immediately preceding clause. (If
clause "First" is inapplicable, the result of clause "First" will be the base
amount of the payment in question prior to any offsets, reductions or
adjustments.)
FIRST: the Inflation Adjustment shall be applied to the base amount of
the payment being calculated;
SECOND: the Volume Adjustment (other than the provisions of subsection
(B)(iii) of Exhibit E) shall be applied to the result of clause "First";
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THIRD: the result of clause "Second" shall be reduced by the Previously
Settled States Reduction;
FOURTH: the result of clause "Third" shall be reduced by the
Non-Settling States Reduction;
FIFTH: in the case of payments due under subsections IX(c)(1) and
IX(c)(2), the results of clause "Fourth" for each such payment due in the
calendar year in question shall be apportioned among the Settling States pro
rata in proportion to their respective Allocable Shares, and the resulting
amounts for each particular Settling State shall then be added together to form
such Settling State's Allocated Payment. In the case of payments due under
subsection IX(i) that correspond to payments due under subsections IX(c)(1) or
IX(c)(2), the results of clause "Fourth" for all such payments due from a
particular Subsequent Participating Manufacturer in the calendar year in
question shall be apportioned among the Settling States pro rata in proportion
to their respective Allocable Shares, and the resulting amounts for each
particular Settling State shall then be added together. (In the case of all
other payments made pursuant to this Agreement, this clause "Fifth" is
inapplicable.);
SIXTH: the NPM Adjustment shall be applied to the results of clause
"Fifth" pursuant to subsections IX(d)(1) and (d)(2) (or, in the case of payments
due from the Subsequent Participating Manufacturers, pursuant to subsection
IX(d)(4));
SEVENTH: in the case of payments due from the Original Participating
Manufacturers to which clause "Fifth" (and therefore clause "Sixth") does not
apply, the result of clause "Fourth" shall be allocated among the Original
Participating Manufacturers according to their Relative Market Shares. In the
case of payments due
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from the Original Participating Manufacturers to which clause "Fifth" applies:
(A) the Allocated Payments of all Settling States determined pursuant to clause
"Fifth" (prior to reduction pursuant to clause "Sixth") shall be added together;
(B) the resulting sum shall be allocated among the Original Participating
Manufacturers according to their Relative Market Shares and subsection (B)(iii)
of Exhibit E hereto (if such subsection is applicable); (C) the Available NPM
Adjustment (as determined pursuant to clause "Sixth") shall be allocated among
the Original Participating Manufacturers pursuant to subsection IX(d)(3); (D)
the respective result of step (C) above for each Original Participating
Manufacturer shall be subtracted from the respective result of step (B) above
for such Original Participating Manufacturer; and (E) the resulting payment
amount due from each Original Participating Manufacturer shall then be allocated
among the Settling States in proportion to the respective results of clause
"Sixth" for each Settling State. The offsets described in clauses "Eighth"
through "Twelfth" shall then be applied separately against each Original
Participating Manufacturer's resulting payment shares (on a Settling State by
Settling State basis) according to each Original Participating Manufacturer's
separate entitlement to such offsets, if any, in the calendar year in question.
(In the case of payments due from Subsequent Participating Manufacturers, this
clause "Seventh" is inapplicable.)
EIGHTH: the offset for miscalculated or disputed payments described in
subsection XI(i) (and any carry-forwards arising from such offset) shall be
applied to the results of clause "Seventh" (in the case of payments due from the
Original Participating Manufacturers) or to the results of clause "Sixth" (in
the case of payments due from Subsequent Participating Manufacturers);
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NINTH: the Federal Tobacco Legislation Offset (including any
carry-forwards arising from such offset) shall be applied to the results of
clause "Eighth";
TENTH: the Litigating Releasing Parties Offset (including any
carry-forwards arising from such offset) shall be applied to the results of
clause "Ninth";
ELEVENTH: the offset for claims over pursuant to subsection
XII(a)(4)(B) (including any carry-forwards arising from such offset) shall be
applied to the results of clause "Tenth";
TWELFTH: the offset for claims over pursuant to subsection XII(a)(8)
(including any carry-forwards arising from such offset) shall be applied to the
results of clause "Eleventh"; and
THIRTEENTH: in the case of payments to which clause "Fifth" applies,
the Settling States' allocated shares of the payments due from each
Participating Manufacturer (as such shares have been determined in step (E) of
clause "Seventh" in the case of payments from the Original Participating
Manufacturers or in clause "Sixth" in the case of payments from the Subsequent
Participating Manufacturers, and have been reduced by clauses "Eighth" through
"Twelfth") shall be added together to state the aggregate payment obligation of
each Participating Manufacturer with respect to the payments in question. (In
the case of a payment to which clause "Fifth" does not apply, the aggregate
payment obligation of each Participating Manufacturer with respect to the
payment in question shall be stated by the results of clause "Eighth.")
X. EFFECT OF FEDERAL TOBACCO-RELATED LEGISLATION
(a) If federal tobacco-related legislation is enacted on or before
November 30, 2002, and if such legislation provides for payment(s) by any
Original Participating
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Manufacturer (whether by settlement payment, tax or any other means), all or
part of which are actually made available to a Settling State ("Federal Funds"),
each Original Participating Manufacturer shall receive a continuing
dollar-for-dollar offset for any and all amounts that are paid by such Original
Participating Manufacturer pursuant to such legislation and actually made
available to such Settling State (except as described in subsections (b) and (c)
below). Such offset shall be applied against the applicable Original
Participating Manufacturer's share (determined as described in step E of clause
"Seventh" of subsection IX(j)) of such Settling State's Allocated Payment, up to
the full amount of such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of such
Allocated Payment (as such share had been reduced by adjustment, if any,
pursuant to the NPM Adjustment and has been reduced by offset, if any, pursuant
to the offset for miscalculated or disputed payments). Such offset shall be
made against such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of the first
Allocated Payment due after such Federal Funds are first available for receipt
by such Settling State. In the event that such offset would in any given year
exceed such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of such Allocated
Payment: (1) the offset to which such Original Participating Manufacturer is
entitled under this section in such year shall be the full amount of such
Original Participating Manufacturer's share of such Allocated Payment, and (2)
all amounts not offset by reason of subsection (1) shall carry forward and be
offset in the following year(s) until all such amounts have been offset.
(b) The offset described in subsection (a) shall apply only to that
portion of Federal Funds, if any, that are either unrestricted as to their use,
or restricted to any form of health care or to any use related to tobacco
(including, but not limited to, tobacco
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education, cessation, control or enforcement) (other than that portion of
Federal Funds, if any, that is specifically applicable to tobacco growers or
communities dependent on the production of tobacco or Tobacco Products).
Provided, however, that the offset described in subsection (a) shall not apply
to that portion of Federal Funds, if any, whose receipt by such Settling State
is conditioned upon or appropriately allocable to:
(1) the relinquishment of rights or benefits under this
Agreement (including the Consent Decree); or
(2) actions or expenditures by such Settling State, unless:
(A) such Settling State chooses to undertake such action
or expenditure;
(B) such actions or expenditures do not impose
significant constraints on public policy choices; or
(C) such actions or expenditures are both: (i) related
to health care or tobacco (including, but not limited to, tobacco
education, cessation, control or enforcement) and (ii) do not
require such Settling State to expend state matching funds in an
amount that is significant in relation to the amount of the
Federal Funds made available to such Settling State.
(c) Subject to the provisions of subsection IX(i)(3), Subsequent
Participating Manufacturers shall be entitled to the offset described in this
section X to the extent that they are required to pay Federal Funds that would
give rise to an offset under subsections (a) and (b) if paid by an Original
Participating Manufacturer.
(d) Nothing in this section X shall (1) reduce the payments to be made
to the Settling States under this Agreement other than those described in
subsection IX(c) (or
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corresponding payments under subsection IX(i)) of this Agreement; or (2) alter
the Allocable Share used to determine each Settling State's share of the
payments described in subsection IX(c) (or corresponding payments under
subsection IX(i)) of this Agreement. Nothing in this section X is intended to
or shall reduce the total amounts payable by the Participating Manufacturers to
the Settling States under this Agreement by an amount greater than the amount of
Federal Funds that the Settling States could elect to receive.
XI. CALCULATION AND DISBURSEMENT OF PAYMENTS
(a) INDEPENDENT AUDITOR TO MAKE ALL CALCULATIONS.
(1) Beginning with payments due in the year 2000, an Independent
Auditor shall calculate and determine the amount of all payments owed
pursuant to this Agreement, the adjustments, reductions and offsets
thereto (and all resulting carry-forwards, if any), the allocation of
such payments, adjustments, reductions, offsets and carry-forwards among
the Participating Manufacturers and among the Settling States, and shall
perform all other calculations in connection with the foregoing
(including, but not limited to, determining Market Share, Relative
Market Share, Base Aggregate Participating Manufacturer Market Share and
Actual Aggregate Participating Manufacturer Market Share). The
Independent Auditor shall promptly collect all information necessary
to make such calculations and determinations. Each Participating
Manufacturer and each Settling State shall provide the Independent
Auditor, as promptly as practicable, with information in its possession
or readily available to it necessary for the Independent Auditor to
perform such calculations. The Independent Auditor shall
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agree to maintain the confidentiality of all such
information, except that the Independent Auditor may provide such
information to Participating Manufacturers and the Settling States as
set forth in this Agreement. The Participating Manufacturers and the
Settling States agree to maintain the confidentiality of such
information.
(2) Payments due from the Original Participating Manufacturers
prior to January 1, 2000 (other than the first payment due pursuant to
subsection IX(b)) shall be based on the 1998 Relative Market Shares of
the Original Participating Manufacturers or, if the Original
Participating Manufacturers are unable to agree on such Relative Market
Shares, on their 1997 Relative Market Shares specified in Exhibit Q.
(b) IDENTITY OF INDEPENDENT AUDITOR. The Independent Auditor shall be
a major, nationally recognized, certified public accounting firm jointly
selected by agreement of the Original Participating Manufacturers and those
Attorneys General of the Settling States who are members of the NAAG executive
committee, who shall jointly retain the power to replace the Independent Auditor
and appoint its successor. Fifty percent of the costs and fees of the
Independent Auditor (but in no event more than $500,000 per annum), shall be
paid by the Fund described in Exhibit J hereto, and the balance of such costs
and fees shall be paid by the Original Participating Manufacturers, allocated
among them according to their Relative Market Shares. The agreement retaining
the Independent Auditor shall provide that the Independent Auditor shall perform
the functions specified for it in this Agreement, and that it shall do so in the
manner specified in this Agreement.
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(c) RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising
out of or relating to calculations performed by, or any determinations made by,
the Independent Auditor (including, without limitation, any dispute concerning
the operation or application of any of the adjustments, reductions, offsets,
carry-forwards and allocations described in subsection IX(j) or subsection
XI(i)) shall be submitted to binding arbitration before a panel of three neutral
arbitrators, each of whom shall be a former Article III federal judge. Each of
the two sides to the dispute shall select one arbitrator. The two arbitrators
so selected shall select the third arbitrator. The arbitration shall be
governed by the United States Federal Arbitration Act.
(d) GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO CALCULATION OF PAYMENTS.
(1) Not less than 90 days prior to the scheduled due date of any
payment due pursuant to this Agreement ("Payment Due Date"), the
Independent Auditor shall deliver to each other Notice Party a detailed
itemization of all information required by the Independent Auditor to
complete its calculation of (A) the amount due from each Participating
Manufacturer with respect to such payment, and (B) the portion of such
amount allocable to each entity for whose benefit such payment is to be
made. To the extent practicable, the Independent Auditor shall specify
in such itemization which Notice Party is requested to produce which
information. Each Participating Manufacturer and each Settling State
shall use its best efforts to promptly supply all of the required
information that is within its possession or is readily available to it
to the Independent Auditor, and in any event not less than 50 days prior
to such Payment Due Date. Such best efforts obligation shall be
continuing in the case of information that comes within the
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possession of, or becomes readily available to, any Settling State or
Participating Manufacturer after the date 50 days prior to such Payment
Due Date.
(2) Not less than 40 days prior to the Payment Due Date, the
Independent Auditor shall deliver to each other Notice Party (A)
detailed preliminary calculations ("Preliminary Calculations") of the
amount due from each Participating Manufacturer and of the amount
allocable to each entity for whose benefit such payment is to be made,
showing all applicable offsets, adjustments, reductions and
carry-forwards and setting forth all the information on which the
Independent Auditor relied in preparing such Preliminary Calculations,
and (B) a statement of any information still required by the Independent
Auditor to complete its calculations.
(3) Not less than 30 days prior to the Payment Due Date, any
Participating Manufacturer or any Settling State that disputes any
aspect of the Preliminary Calculations (including, but not limited to,
disputing the methodology that the Independent Auditor employed, or the
information on which the Independent Auditor relied, in preparing such
calculations) shall notify each other Notice Party of such dispute,
including the reasons and basis therefor.
(4) Not less than 15 days prior to the Payment Due Date, the
Independent Auditor shall deliver to each other Notice Party a detailed
recalculation (a "Final Calculation") of the amount due from each
Participating Manufacturer, the amount allocable to each entity for
whose benefit such payment is to be made, and the Account to which such
payment is to be credited, explaining any changes from
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the Preliminary Calculation. The Final Calculation may include
estimates of amounts in the circumstances described in subsection
(d)(5).
(5) The following provisions shall govern in the event that the
information required by the Independent Auditor to complete its
calculations is not in its possession by the date as of which the
Independent Auditor is required to provide either a Preliminary
Calculation or a Final Calculation.
(A) If the information in question is not readily
available to any Settling State, any Original Participating
Manufacturer or any Subsequent Participating Manufacturer, the
Independent Auditor shall employ an assumption as to the missing
information producing the minimum amount that is likely to be due
with respect to the payment in question, and shall set forth its
assumption as to the missing information in its Preliminary
Calculation or Final Calculation, whichever is at issue. Any
Original Participating Manufacturer, Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer or Settling State may dispute any such assumption
employed by the Independent Auditor in its Preliminary
Calculation in the manner prescribed in subsection (d)(3) or any
such assumption employed by the Independent Auditor in its Final
Calculation in the manner prescribed in subsection (d)(6). If
the missing information becomes available to the Independent
Auditor prior to the Payment Due Date, the Independent Auditor
shall promptly revise its Preliminary Calculation or Final
Calculation (whichever is applicable) and shall promptly provide
the revised calculation to each Notice Party, showing the newly
available
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information. If the missing information does not become
available to the Independent Auditor prior to the Payment Due
Date, the minimum amount calculated by the Independent Auditor
pursuant to this subsection (A) shall be paid on the Payment Due
Date, subject to disputes pursuant to subsections (d)(6) and
(d)(8) and without prejudice to a later final determination of
the correct amount. If the missing information becomes available
to the Independent Auditor after the Payment Due Date, the
Independent Auditor shall calculate the correct amount of the
payment in question and shall apply any overpayment or
underpayment as an offset or additional payment in the manner
described in subsection (i).
(B) If the information in question is readily available
to a Settling State, Original Participating Manufacturer or
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer, but such Settling State,
Original Participating Manufacturer or Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer does not supply such information to the Independent
Auditor, the Independent Auditor shall base the calculation in
question on its best estimate of such information, and shall show
such estimate in its Preliminary Calculation or Final
Calculation, whichever is applicable. Any Original Participating
Manufacturer, Subsequent Participating Manufacturer or Settling
State (except the entity that withheld the information) may
dispute such estimate employed by the Independent Auditor in its
Preliminary Calculation in the manner prescribed in subsection
(d)(3) or such estimate employed by the Independent Auditor in
its Final Calculation in the manner prescribed in
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subsection (d)(6). If the withheld information is not made
available to the Independent Auditor more than 30 days prior to
the Payment Due Date, the estimate employed by the Independent
Auditor (as revised by the Independent Auditor in light of any
dispute filed pursuant to the preceding sentence) shall govern
the amounts to be paid on the Payment Due Date, subject to
disputes pursuant to subsection (d)(6) and without prejudice to a
later final determination of the correct amount. In the event
that the withheld information subsequently becomes available, the
Independent Auditor shall calculate the correct amount and shall
apply any overpayment or underpayment as an offset or additional
payment in the manner described in subsection (i).
(6) Not less than five days prior to the Payment Due Date, each
Participating Manufacturer and each Settling State shall deliver to each
Notice Party a statement indicating whether it disputes the Independent
Auditor's Final Calculation and, if so, the disputed and undisputed
amounts and the basis for the dispute. Except to the extent a
Participating Manufacturer or a Settling State delivers a statement
indicating the existence of a dispute by such date, the amounts set
forth in the Independent Auditor's Final Calculation shall be paid on
the Payment Due Date. Provided, however, that (A) in the event that the
Independent Auditor revises its Final Calculation within five days of
the Payment Due Date as provided in subsection (5)(A) due to receipt of
previously missing information, a Participating Manufacturer or Settling
State may dispute such revision pursuant to the procedure set forth in
this subsection (6) at any time prior
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to the Payment Due Date; and (B) prior to the date four years after the
Payment Due Date, neither failure to dispute a calculation made by the
Independent Auditor nor actual agreement with any calculation or payment
to the Escrow Agent or to another payee shall waive any Participating
Manufacturer's or Settling State's rights to dispute any payment (or the
Independent Auditor's calculations with respect to any payment) after
the Payment Due Date. No Participating Manufacturer and no Settling
State shall have a right to raise any dispute with respect to any
payment or calculation after the date four years after such payment's
Payment Due Date.
(7) Each Participating Manufacturer shall be obligated to pay by
the Payment Due Date the undisputed portion of the total amount
calculated as due from it by the Independent Auditor's Final
Calculation. Failure to pay such portion shall render the Participating
Manufacturer liable for interest thereon as provided in subsection IX(h)
of this Agreement, in addition to any other remedy available under this
Agreement.
(8) As to any disputed portion of the total amount calculated to
be due pursuant to the Final Calculation, any Participating Manufacturer
that by the Payment Due Date pays such disputed portion into the
Disputed Payments Account (as defined in the Escrow Agreement) shall not
be liable for interest thereon even if the amount disputed was in fact
properly due and owing. Any Participating Manufacturer that by the
Payment Due Date does not pay such disputed portion into the Disputed
Payments Account shall be liable for interest as
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provided in subsection IX(h) if the amount disputed was in fact properly
due and owing.
(9) On the same date that it makes any payment pursuant to this
Agreement, each Participating Manufacturer shall deliver a notice to
each other Notice Party showing the amount of such payment and the
Account to which such payment is to be credited.
(10) On the first Business Day after the Payment Due Date, the
Escrow Agent shall deliver to each other Notice Party a statement
showing the amounts received by it from each Participating Manufacturer
and the Accounts credited with such amounts.
(e) GENERAL TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS. The Escrow Agent may disburse
amounts from an Account only if permitted, and only at such time as permitted,
by this Agreement and the Escrow Agreement. No amounts may be disbursed to a
Settling State other than funds credited to such Settling State's State-Specific
Account (as defined in the Escrow Agreement). The Independent Auditor, in
delivering payment instructions to the Escrow Agent, shall specify: the amount
to be paid; the Account or Accounts from which such payment is to be disbursed;
the payee of such payment (which may be an Account); and the Business Day on
which such payment is to be made by the Escrow Agent. Except as expressly
provided in subsection (f) below, in no event may any amount be disbursed from
any Account prior to Final Approval.
(f) DISBURSEMENTS AND CHARGES NOT CONTINGENT ON FINAL APPROVAL. Funds
may be disbursed from Accounts without regard to the occurrence of Final
Approval in the following circumstances and in the following manner:
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(1) PAYMENTS OF FEDERAL AND STATE TAXES. Federal, state, local
or other taxes imposed with respect to the amounts credited to the
Accounts shall be paid from such amounts. The Independent Auditor shall
prepare and file any tax returns required to be filed with respect to
the escrow. All taxes required to be paid shall be allocated to and
charged against the Accounts on a reasonable basis to be determined by
the Independent Auditor. Upon receipt of written instructions from the
Independent Auditor, the Escrow Agent shall pay such taxes and charge
such payments against the Account or Accounts specified in those
instructions.
(2) PAYMENTS TO AND FROM DISPUTED PAYMENTS ACCOUNT. The
Independent Auditor shall instruct the Escrow Agent to credit funds from
an Account to the Disputed Payments Account when a dispute arises as to
such funds, and shall instruct the Escrow Agent to credit funds from the
Disputed Payments Account to the appropriate payee when such dispute is
resolved with finality. The Independent Auditor shall provide the
Notice Parties not less than 10 Business Days prior notice before
instructing the Escrow Agent to disburse funds from the Disputed
Payments Account.
(3) PAYMENTS TO A STATE-SPECIFIC ACCOUNT. Promptly following
the occurrence of State-Specific Finality in any Settling State, such
Settling State and the Original Participating Manufacturers shall notify
the Independent Auditor of such occurrence. The Independent Auditor
shall promptly thereafter notify each Notice Party of such
State-Specific Finality and of the portions of the amounts in the
Subsection IX(b) Account (First), Subsection IX(b) Account (Subsequent),
Subsection IX(c)(1) Account and Subsection IX(c)(2) Account,
respectively (as
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such Accounts are defined in the Escrow Agreement), that are at such
time held in such Accounts for the benefit of such Settling State, and
which are to be transferred to the appropriate State-Specific Account
for such Settling State. If neither the Settling State in question nor
any Participating Manufacturer disputes such amounts or the occurrence
of such State-Specific Finality by notice delivered to each other Notice
Party not later than 10 Business Days after delivery by the Independent
Auditor of the notice described in the preceding sentence, the
Independent Auditor shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to make
such transfer. If the Settling State in question or any Participating
Manufacturer disputes such amounts or the occurrence of such
State-Specific Finality by notice delivered to each other Notice Party
not later than 10 Business Days after delivery by the Independent
Auditor of the notice described in the second sentence of this
subsection (f)(3), the Independent Auditor shall promptly instruct the
Escrow Agent to credit the amount disputed to the Disputed Payments
Account and the undisputed portion to the appropriate State-Specific
Account. No amounts may be transferred or credited to a State-Specific
Account for the benefit of any State as to which State-Specific Finality
has not occurred or as to which this Agreement has terminated.
(4) PAYMENTS TO PARTIES OTHER THAN PARTICULAR SETTLING STATES.
(A) Promptly following the occurrence of State-Specific
Finality in one Settling State, such Settling State and the
Original Participating Manufacturers shall notify the Independent
Auditor of such occurrence. The Independent Auditor shall
promptly thereafter notify each Notice
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Party of the occurrence of State-Specific Finality in at least
one Settling State and of the amounts held in the Subsection
VI(b) Account, Subsection VI(c) Account (First), and Subsection
VIII(c) Account (as such Accounts are defined in the Escrow
Agreement), if any. If neither any of the Settling States nor
any of the Participating Manufacturers disputes such amounts or
disputes the occurrence of State-Specific Finality in one
Settling State, by notice delivered to each Notice Party not
later than ten Business Days after delivery by the Independent
Auditor of the notice described in the preceding sentence, the
Independent Auditor shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to
disburse the funds held in such Accounts to the Foundation or to
the Fund specified in subsection VIII(c), as appropriate. If any
Settling State or Participating Manufacturer disputes such
amounts or the occurrence of such State-Specific Finality by
notice delivered to each other Notice Party not later than 10
Business Days after delivery by the Independent Auditor of the
notice described in the second sentence of this subsection
(4)(A), the Independent Auditor shall promptly instruct the
Escrow Agent to credit the amounts disputed to the Disputed
Payments Account and to disburse the undisputed portion to the
Foundation or to the Fund specified in subsection VIII(c), as
appropriate.
(B) The Independent Auditor shall instruct the Escrow
Agent to disburse funds on deposit in the Subsection VIII(b)
Account and Subsection IX(e) Account (as such Accounts are
defined in the Escrow Agreement) to NAAG or to the Foundation, as
appropriate, within 10
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Business Days after the date on which such amounts were credited
to such Accounts.
(C) Promptly following the occurrence of State-Specific
Finality in Settling States having aggregate Allocable Shares
equal to at least 80% of the total aggregate Allocable Shares
assigned to all States that were Settling States as of the MSA
Execution Date, the Settling States and the Original
Participating Manufacturers shall notify the Independent Auditor
of such occurrence. The Independent Auditor shall promptly
thereafter notify each Notice Party of the occurrence of such
State-Specific Finality and of the amounts held in the Subsection
VI(c) Account (Subsequent) (as such Account is defined in the
Escrow Agreement), if any. If neither any of the Settling States
nor any of the Participating Manufacturers disputes such amounts
or disputes the occurrence of such State-Specific Finality, by
notice delivered to each Notice Party not later than 10 Business
Days after delivery by the Independent Auditor of the notice
described in the preceding sentence, the Independent Auditor
shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to disburse the funds
held in such Account to the Foundation. If any Settling State or
Participating Manufacturer disputes such amounts or the
occurrence of such State-Specific Finality by notice delivered to
each other Notice Party not later than 10 Business Days after
delivery by the Independent Auditor of the notice described in
the second sentence of this subsection (4)(C), the Independent
Auditor shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to credit the
amounts disputed to the Disputed
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Payments Account and to disburse the undisputed portion to the
Foundation.
(5) TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS FOLLOWING TERMINATION.
(A) AS TO AMOUNTS HELD FOR SETTLING STATES. Promptly
upon the termination of this Agreement with respect to any
Settling State (whether or not as part of the termination of this
Agreement as to all Settling States) such State or any
Participating Manufacturer shall notify the Independent Auditor
of such occurrence. The Independent Auditor shall promptly
thereafter notify each Notice Party of such termination and of
the amounts held in the Subsection IX(b) Account (First), the
Subsection IX(b) Account (Subsequent), the Subsection IX(c)(1)
Account, the Subsection IX(c)(2) Account, and the State-Specific
Account for the benefit of such Settling State. If neither the
State in question nor any Participating Manufacturer disputes
such amounts or the occurrence of such termination by notice
delivered to each other Notice Party not later than 10 Business
Days after delivery by the Independent Auditor of the notice
described in the preceding sentence, the Independent Auditor
shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to transfer such amounts
to the Participating Manufacturers (on the basis of their
respective contributions of such funds). If the State in
question or any Participating Manufacturer disputes the amounts
held in the Accounts or the occurrence of such termination by
notice delivered to each other Notice Party not later than 10
Business Days after delivery by the Independent Auditor of the
notice described in the
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second sentence of this subsection (5)(A), the Independent
Auditor shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to transfer the
amount disputed to the Disputed Payments Account and the
undisputed portion to the Participating Manufacturers (on the
basis of their respective contributions of such funds).
(B) AS TO AMOUNTS HELD FOR OTHERS. If this Agreement is
terminated with respect to all of the Settling States, the
Original Participating Manufacturers shall promptly notify the
Independent Auditor of such occurrence. The Independent Auditor
shall promptly thereafter notify each Notice Party of such
termination and of the amounts held in the Subsection VI(b)
Account, the Subsection VI(c) Account (First), the Subsection
VIII(b) Account, the Subsection VIII(c) Account and the
Subsection IX(e) Account. If neither any such State nor any
Participating Manufacturer disputes such amounts or the
occurrence of such termination by notice delivered to each other
Notice Party not later than 10 Business Days after delivery by
the Independent Auditor of the notice described in the preceding
sentence, the Independent Auditor shall promptly instruct the
Escrow Agent to transfer such amounts to the Participating
Manufacturers (on the basis of their respective contributions of
such funds). If any such State or any Participating Manufacturer
disputes the amounts held in the Accounts or the occurrence of
such termination by notice delivered to each other Notice Party
not later than 10 Business Days after delivery by the Independent
Auditor of the notice described in the
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second sentence of this subsection (5)(B), the Independent
Auditor shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to credit the
amount disputed to the Disputed Payments Account and transfer the
undisputed portion to the Participating Manufacturers (on the
basis of their respective contribution of such funds).
(C) AS TO AMOUNTS HELD IN THE SUBSECTION VI(C) ACCOUNT
(SUBSEQUENT). If this Agreement is terminated with respect to
Settling States having aggregate Allocable Shares equal to more
than 20% of the total aggregate Allocable Shares assigned to
those States that were Settling States as of the MSA Execution
Date, the Original Participating Manufacturers shall promptly
notify the Independent Auditor of such occurrence. The
Independent Auditor shall promptly thereafter notify each Notice
Party of such termination and of the amounts held in the
Subsection VI(c) Account (Subsequent) (as defined in the Escrow
Agreement). If neither any such State with respect to which this
Agreement has terminated nor any Participating Manufacturer
disputes such amounts or the occurrence of such termination by
notice delivered to each other Notice Party not later than 10
Business Days after delivery by the Independent Auditor of the
notice described in the preceding sentence, the Independent
Auditor shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to transfer such
amounts to the Participating Manufacturers (on the basis of their
respective contributions of such funds). If any such State or
any Participating Manufacturer disputes the amounts held in the
Account or
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the occurrence of such termination by notice delivered to each
other Notice Party not later than 10 Business Days after delivery
by the Independent Auditor of the notice described in the second
sentence of this subsection (5)(C), the Independent Auditor shall
promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to credit the amount disputed
to the Disputed Payments Account and transfer the undisputed
portion to the Participating Manufacturers (on the basis of their
respective contribution of such funds).
(g) PAYMENTS TO BE MADE ONLY AFTER FINAL APPROVAL. Promptly following
the occurrence of Final Approval, the Settling States and the Original
Participating Manufacturers shall notify the Independent Auditor of such
occurrence. The Independent Auditor shall promptly thereafter notify each
Notice Party of the occurrence of Final Approval and of the amounts held in the
State-Specific Accounts. If neither any of the Settling States nor any of the
Participating Manufacturers disputes such amounts, disputes the occurrence of
Final Approval or claims that this Agreement has terminated as to any Settling
State for whose benefit the funds are held in a State-Specific Account, by
notice delivered to each Notice Party not later than 10 Business Days after
delivery by the Independent Auditor of such notice of Final Approval, the
Independent Auditor shall promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to disburse the
funds held in the State-Specific Accounts to the respective Settling States. If
any Notice Party disputes such amounts or the occurrence of Final Approval, or
claims that this Agreement has terminated as to any Settling State for whose
benefit the funds are held in a State-Specific Account, by notice delivered to
each other Notice Party not later than 10 Business Days after delivery by the
Independent Auditor of such notice of Final Approval, the Independent Auditor
shall
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promptly instruct the Escrow Agent to credit the amounts disputed to the
Disputed Payments Account and to disburse the undisputed portion to the
respective Settling States.
(h) APPLICABILITY TO SECTION XVII PAYMENTS. This section XI shall not
be applicable to payments made pursuant to section XVII; provided, however, that
the Independent Auditor shall be responsible for calculating Relative Market
Shares in connection with such payments, and the Independent Auditor shall
promptly provide the results of such calculation to any Original Participating
Manufacturer or Settling State that requests it do so.
(i) MISCALCULATED OR DISPUTED PAYMENTS.
(1) UNDERPAYMENTS.
(A) If information becomes available to the Independent
Auditor not later than four years after a Payment Due Date, and
such information shows that any Participating Manufacturer was
instructed to make an insufficient payment on such date
("original payment"), the Independent Auditor shall promptly
determine the additional payment owed by such Participating
Manufacturer and the allocation of such additional payment among
the applicable payees. The Independent Auditor shall then reduce
such additional payment (up to the full amount of such additional
payment) by any adjustments or offsets that were available to the
Participating Manufacturer in question against the original
payment at the time it was made (and have not since been used)
but which such Participating Manufacturer was unable to use
against such original
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payment because such adjustments or offsets were in excess of
such original payment (provided that any adjustments or offsets
used against such additional payment shall reduce on a
dollar-for-dollar basis any remaining carry-forward held by such
Participating Manufacturer with respect to such adjustment or
offset). The Independent Auditor shall then add interest at the
Prime Rate (calculated from the Payment Due Date in question) to
the additional payment (as reduced pursuant to the preceding
sentence), except that where the additional payment owed by a
Participating Manufacturer is the result of an underpayment by
such Participating Manufacturer caused by such Participating
Manufacturer's withholding of information as described in
subsection (d)(5)(B), the applicable interest rate shall be that
described in subsection IX(h). The Independent Auditor shall
promptly give notice of the additional payment owed by the
Participating Manufacturer in question (as reduced and/or
increased as described above) to all Notice Parties, showing the
new information and all calculations. Upon receipt of such
notice, any Participating Manufacturer or Settling State may
dispute the Independent Auditor's calculations in the manner
described in subsection (d)(3), and the Independent Auditor shall
promptly notify each Notice Party of any subsequent revisions to
its calculations. Not more than 15 days after receipt of such
notice (or, if the Independent Auditor revises its calculations,
not more than 15 days after receipt of the revisions), any
Participating Manufacturer and any Settling State may dispute the
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Independent Auditor's calculations in the manner prescribed in
subsection (d)(6). Failure to dispute the Independent Auditor's
calculations in this manner shall constitute agreement with the
Independent Auditor's calculations, subject to the limitations
set forth in subsection (d)(6). Payment of the undisputed
portion of an additional payment shall be made to the Escrow
Agent not more than 20 days after receipt of the notice described
in this subsection (A) (or, if the Independent Auditor revises
its calculations, not more than 20 days after receipt of the
revisions). Failure to pay such portion shall render the
Participating Manufacturer liable for interest thereon as
provided in subsection IX(h). Payment of the disputed portion
shall be governed by subsection (d)(8).
(B) To the extent a dispute as to a prior payment is
resolved with finality against a Participating Manufacturer: (i)
in the case where the disputed amount has been paid into the
Disputed Payments Account pursuant to subsection (d)(8), the
Independent Auditor shall instruct the Escrow Agent to transfer
such amount to the applicable payee Account(s); (ii) in the case
where the disputed amount has not been paid into the Disputed
Payments Account and the dispute was identified prior to the
Payment Due Date in question by delivery of a statement pursuant
to subsection (d)(6) identifying such dispute, the Independent
Auditor shall calculate interest on the disputed amount from the
Payment Due Date in question (the applicable interest rate to be
that provided in subsection IX(h)) and the allocation of such
amount and interest among the applicable
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payees, and shall provide notice of the amount owed (and the identity of
the payor and payees) to all Notice Parties; and (iii) in all other
cases, the procedure described in subsection (ii) shall apply, except
that the applicable interest rate shall be the Prime Rate.
(2) OVERPAYMENTS.
(A) If a dispute as to a prior payment is resolved with
finality in favor of a Participating Manufacturer where the
disputed amount has been paid into the Disputed Payments Account
pursuant to subsection (d)(8), the Independent Auditor shall
instruct the Escrow Agent to transfer such amount to such
Participating Manufacturer.
(B) If information becomes available to the Independent
Auditor not later than four years after a Payment Due Date
showing that a Participating Manufacturer made an overpayment on
such date, or if a dispute as to a prior payment is resolved with
finality in favor of a Participating Manufacturer where the
disputed amount has been paid but not into the Disputed Payments
Account, such Participating Manufacturer shall be entitled to a
continuing dollar-for-dollar offset as follows:
(i) offsets under this subsection (B) shall be
applied only against eligible payments to be made by such
Participating Manufacturer after the entitlement to the
offset arises. The eligible payments shall be: in the
case of offsets arising from payments under subsection
IX(b) or IX(c)(1), subsequent payments under any of such
subsections; in the case of offsets arising from
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payments under subsection IX(c)(2), subsequent payments
under such subsection or, if no subsequent payments are
to be made under such subsection, subsequent payments
under subsection IX(c)(1); in the case of offsets arising
from payments under subsection IX(e), subsequent payments
under such subsection or subsection IX(c); in the case of
offsets arising from payments under subsection VI(c),
subsequent payments under such subsection or, if no
subsequent payments are to be made under such subsection,
subsequent payments under any of subsection IX(c)(1),
IX(c)(2) or IX(e); in the case of offsets arising from
payments under subsection VIII(b), subsequent payments
under such subsection or, if no subsequent payments are
to be made under such subsection, subsequent payments
under either subsection IX(c)(1) or IX(c)(2); in the case
of offsets arising from payments under subsection
VIII(c), subsequent payments under either subsection
IX(c)(1) or IX(c)(2); and, in the case of offsets arising
from payments under subsection IX(i), subsequent payments
under such subsection.
(ii) in the case of offsets to be applied against
payments under subsection IX(c), the offset to be applied
shall be apportioned among the Settling States pro rata
in proportion to their respective shares of such
payments.
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(iii) the total amount of the offset to which a
Participating Manufacturer shall be entitled shall be the
full amount of the overpayment it made, together with
interest calculated from the time of the overpayment to
the Payment Due Date of the first eligible payment
against which the offset may be applied. The applicable
interest rate shall be the Prime Rate (except that, where
the overpayment is the result of a Settling State's
withholding of information as described in subsection
(d)(5)(B), the applicable interest rate shall be that
described in subsection IX(h)).
(iv) an offset under this subsection (B) shall be
applied up to the full amount of the Participating
Manufacturer's share (in the case of payments due from
Original Participating Manufacturers, determined as
described in the first sentence of clause "Seventh" of
subsection IX(j) (or, in the case of payments pursuant to
subsection IX(c), step D of such clause)) of the eligible
payment in question, as such payment has been adjusted
and reduced pursuant to clauses "First" through "Sixth"
of subsection IX(j), to the extent each such clause is
applicable to the payment in question. In the event that
the offset to which a Participating Manufacturer is
entitled under this subsection (B) would exceed such
Participating Manufacturer's share of the eligible
payment against which it is being applied, the offset
shall be the full amount of such Participating
Manufacturer's share of such eligible payment and all
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amounts not offset shall carry forward and be offset
against subsequent eligible payments until all such
amounts have been offset.
(j) PAYMENTS AFTER APPLICABLE CONDITION. To the extent that a payment
is made after the occurrence of all applicable conditions for the disbursement
of such payment to the payee(s) in question, the Independent Auditor shall
instruct the Escrow Agent to disburse such payment promptly following its
deposit.
XII. SETTLING STATES' RELEASE, DISCHARGE AND COVENANT
(a) RELEASE.
(1) Upon the occurrence of State-Specific Finality in a Settling
State, such Settling State shall absolutely and unconditionally release
and forever discharge all Released Parties from all Released Claims that
the Releasing Parties directly, indirectly, derivatively or in any other
capacity ever had, now have, or hereafter can, shall or may have.
(2) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this release and discharge
shall not apply to any defendant in a lawsuit settled pursuant to this
Agreement (other than a Participating Manufacturer) unless and until
such defendant releases the Releasing Parties (and delivers to the
Attorney General of the applicable Settling State a copy of such
release) from any and all Claims of such defendant relating to the
prosecution of such lawsuit.
(3) Each Settling State (for itself and for the Releasing
Parties) further covenants and agrees that it (and the Releasing
Parties) shall not after the occurrence of State-Specific Finality xxx
or seek to establish civil liability against
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any Released Party based, in whole or in part, upon any of the Released
Claims, and further agrees that such covenant and agreement shall be a
complete defense to any such civil action or proceeding.
(4) (A) Each Settling State (for itself and for the Releasing
Parties) further agrees that, if a Released Claim by a Releasing Party
against any person or entity that is not a Released Party (a
"non-Released Party") results in or in any way gives rise to a
claim-over (on any theory whatever other than a claim based on an
express written indemnity agreement) by such non-Released Party against
any Released Party (and such Released Party gives notice to the
applicable Settling State within 30 days of the service of such
claim-over (or within 30 days after the MSA Execution Date, whichever is
later) and prior to entry into any settlement of such claim-over), the
Releasing Party: (i) shall reduce or credit against any judgment or
settlement such Releasing Party may obtain against such non-Released
Party the full amount of any judgment or settlement such non-Released
Party may obtain against the Released Party on such claim-over; and (ii)
shall, as part of any settlement with such non-Released Party, obtain
from such non-Released Party for the benefit of such Released Party a
satisfaction in full of such non-Released Party's judgment or settlement
against the Released Party.
(B) Each Settling State further agrees that in the event that
the provisions of subsection (4)(A) do not fully eliminate any and all
liability of any Original Participating Manufacturer (or of any person
or entity that is a Released Party by virtue of its relation to any
Original Participating Manufacturer) with respect to
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claims-over (on any theory whatever other than a claim based on an
express written indemnity agreement) by any non-Released Party to
recover in whole or in part any liability (whether direct or indirect,
or whether by way of settlement (to the extent that such Released Party
has given notice to the applicable Settling State within 30 days of the
service of such claim-over (or within 30 days after the MSA Execution
Date, whichever is later) and prior to entry into any settlement of such
claim-over), judgment or otherwise) of such non-Released Party to any
Releasing Party arising out of any Released Claim, such Original
Participating Manufacturer shall receive a continuing dollar-for-dollar
offset for any amounts paid by such Original Participating Manufacturer
(or by any person or entity that is a Released Party by virtue of its
relation to such Original Participating Manufacturer) on any such
liability against such Original Participating Manufacturer's share
(determined as described in step E of clause "Seventh" of subsection
IX(j)) of the applicable Settling State's Allocated Payment, up to the
full amount of such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of such
Allocated Payment each year, until all such amounts paid on such
liability have been offset. In the event that the offset under this
subsection (4) with respect to a particular Settling State would in any
given year exceed such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of
such Settling State's Allocated Payment (as such share had been reduced
by adjustment, if any, pursuant to the NPM Adjustment, and has been
reduced by offsets, if any, pursuant to the offset for miscalculated or
disputed payments, the Federal Tobacco Legislation Offset and the
Litigating Releasing Parties Offset): (i) the offset to which such
Original Participating
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Manufacturer is entitled under this subsection in such year shall be the
full amount of such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of such
Allocated Payment; and (ii) all amounts not offset by reason of
subsection (i) shall carry forward and be offset in the following
year(s) until all such amounts have been offset.
(C) Each Settling State further agrees that, subject to the
provisions of section IX(i)(3), each Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer shall be entitled to the offset described in subsection (B)
above to the extent that it (or any person or entity that is a Released
Party by virtue of its relationship with such Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer) has paid on liability that would give rise to an offset
under such subsection if paid by an Original Participating Manufacturer.
(5) This release and covenant shall not operate to interfere
with a Settling State's ability to enforce as against any Participating
Manufacturer the provisions of this Agreement, or with the Court's
ability to enter the Consent Decree or to maintain continuing
jurisdiction to enforce such Consent Decree pursuant to the terms
thereof. Provided, however, that neither subsection III(a) or III(r) of
this Agreement nor subsection V(A) or V(I) of the Consent Decree shall
create a right to challenge the continuation, after the MSA Execution
Date, of any advertising content, claim or slogan (other than use of a
Cartoon) that was not unlawful prior to the MSA Execution Date.
(6) The Settling States do not purport to waive or release any
claims on behalf of Indian tribes.
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(7) The Settling States do not waive or release any criminal
liability based on federal, state or local law.
(8) Notwithstanding the foregoing (and the definition of
Released Parties), this release and covenant shall not apply to
retailers, suppliers or distributors to the extent of any liability
arising from the sale or distribution of Tobacco Products of, or the
supply of component parts of Tobacco Products to, any non-Released
Party.
(A) Each Settling State (for itself and for the
Releasing Parties) agrees that, if a claim by a Releasing Party
against a retailer, supplier or distributor that would be a
Released Claim but for the operation of the preceding sentence
results in or in any way gives rise to a claim-over (on any
theory whatever) by such retailer, supplier or distributor
against any Released Party (and such Released Party gives notice
to the applicable Settling State within 30 days of the service of
such claim-over (or within 30 days after the MSA Execution Date,
whichever is later) and prior to entry into any settlement of
such claim-over), the Releasing Party: (i) shall reduce or
credit against any judgment or settlement such Releasing Party
may obtain against such retailer, supplier or distributor the
full amount of any judgment or settlement such retailer, supplier
or distributor may obtain against the Released Party on such
claim-over; and (ii) shall, as part of any settlement with such
retailer, supplier or distributor, obtain from such retailer,
supplier or distributor for the benefit of such Released
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Party a satisfaction in full of such retailer's, supplier's or
distributor's judgment or settlement against the Released Party.
(B) Each Settling State further agrees that in the event
that the provisions of subsection (8)(A) above do not fully
eliminate any and all liability of any Original Participating
Manufacturer (or any person or entity that is a Released Party by
virtue of its relationship to an Original Participating
Manufacturer) with respect to claims-over (on any theory
whatever) by any such retailer, supplier or distributor to
recover in whole or in part any liability (whether direct or
indirect, or whether by way of settlement (to the extent that
such Released Party has given notice to the applicable Settling
State within 30 days of the service of such claim-over (or within
30 days after the MSA Execution Date, whichever is later) and
prior to entry into any settlement of such claim-over), judgment
or otherwise) of such retailer, supplier or distributor to any
Releasing Party arising out of any claim that would be a Released
Claim but for the operation of the first sentence of this
subsection (8), such Original Participating Manufacturer shall
receive a continuing dollar-for-dollar offset for any amounts
paid by such Original Participating Manufacturer (or by any
person or entity that is a Released Party by virtue of its
relation to such Original Participating Manufacturer) on any such
liability against such Original Participating Manufacturer's
share (determined as described in step E of clause "Seventh" of
subsection IX(j)) of the applicable Settling State's Allocated
Payment, up to the full amount of such Original
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Participating Manufacturer's share of such Allocated Payment each
year, until all such amounts paid on such liability have been
offset. In the event that the offset under this subsection (8)
with respect to a particular Settling State would in any given
year exceed such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of
such Settling State's Allocated Payment (as such share had been
reduced by adjustment, if any, pursuant to the NPM Adjustment,
and has been reduced by offsets, if any, pursuant to the offset
for miscalculated or disputed payments, the Federal Tobacco
Legislation Offset, the Litigating Releasing Parties Offset and
the offset for claims-over under subsection XII(a)(4)(B)): (i)
the offset to which such Original Participating Manufacturer is
entitled under this subsection in such year shall be the full
amount of such Original Participating Manufacturer's share of
such Allocated Payment; and (ii) all amounts not offset by reason
of clause (i) shall carry forward and be offset in the following
year(s) until all such amounts have been offset.
(C) Each Settling State further agrees that, subject to
the provisions of subsection IX(i)(3), each Subsequent
Participating Manufacturer shall be entitled to the offset
described in subsection (B) above to the extent that it (or any
person or entity that is a Released Party by virtue of its
relationship with such Subsequent Participating Manufacturer) has
paid on liability that would give rise to an offset under such
subsection if paid by an Original Participating Manufacturer.
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(9) Notwithstanding any provision of law, statutory or
otherwise, which provides that a general release does not extend to
claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in its favor
at the time of executing the release, which if known by it must have
materially affected its settlement with the debtor, the releases set
forth in this section XII release all Released Claims against the
Released Parties, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseen,
suspected or unsuspected, that the Releasing Parties may have against
the Released Parties, and the Releasing Parties understand and
acknowledge the significance and consequences of waiver of any such
provision and hereby assume full responsibility for any injuries,
damages or losses that the Releasing Parties may incur.
(b) RELEASED CLAIMS AGAINST RELEASED PARTIES. If a Releasing Party (or
any person or entity enumerated in subsection II(pp), without regard to the
power of the Attorney General to release claims of such person or entity)
nonetheless attempts to maintain a Released Claim against a Released Party, such
Released Party shall give written notice of such potential claim to the Attorney
General of the applicable Settling State within 30 days of receiving notice of
such potential claim (or within 30 days after the MSA Execution Date, whichever
is later) (unless such potential claim is being maintained by such Settling
State). The Released Party may offer the release and covenant as a complete
defense. If it is determined at any point in such action that the release of
such claim is unenforceable or invalid for any reason (including, but not
limited to, lack of authority to release such claim), the following provisions
shall apply:
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(1) The Released Party shall take all ordinary and reasonable
measures to defend the action fully. The Released Party may settle or
enter into a stipulated judgment with respect to the action at any time
in its sole discretion, but in such event the offset described in
subsection (b)(2) or (b)(3) below shall apply only if the Released Party
obtains the relevant Attorney General's consent to such settlement or
stipulated judgment, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
The Released Party shall not be entitled to the offset described in
subsection (b)(2) or (b)(3) below if such Released Party failed to take
ordinary and reasonable measures to defend the action fully.
(2) The following provisions shall apply where the Released
Party is an Original Participating Manufacturer (or any person or entity
that is a Released Party by virtue of its relationship with an Original
Participating Manufacturer):
(A) In the event of a settlement or stipulated judgment,
the settlement or stipulated amount shall give rise to a
continuing offset as such amount is actually paid against the
full amount of such Original Participating Manufacturer's share
(determined as described in step E of clause "Seventh" of
subsection IX(j)) of the applicable Settling State's Allocated
Payment until such time as the settlement or stipulated amount is
fully credited on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
(B) Judgments (other than a default judgment) against a
Released Party in such an action shall, upon payment of such
judgment, give rise to an immediate and continuing offset against
the full amount of such Original Participating Manufacturer's
share (determined as described in
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subsection (A)) of the applicable Settling State's Allocated
Payment, until such time as the judgment is fully credited on a
dollar-for-dollar basis.
(C) Each Settling State reserves the right to intervene
in such an action (unless such action was brought by the Settling
State) to the extent authorized by applicable law in order to
protect the Settling State's interest under this Agreement. Each
Participating Manufacturer agrees not to oppose any such
intervention.
(D) In the event that the offset under this subsection
(b)(2) with respect to a particular Settling State would in any
given year exceed such Original Participating Manufacturer's
share of such Settling State's Allocated Payment (as such share
had been reduced by adjustment, if any, pursuant to the NPM
Adjustment, and has been reduced by offsets, if any, pursuant to
the Federal Tobacco Legislation Offset and the offset for
miscalculated or disputed payments): (i) the offset to which
such Original Participating Manufacturer is entitled under this
subsection (2) in such year shall be the full amount of such
Original Participating Manufacturer's share of such Allocated
Payment; and (ii) all amounts not offset by reason of clause (i)
shall carry forward and be offset in the following year(s) until
all such amounts have been offset.
(3) The following provisions shall apply where the Released
Party is a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer (or any person or
entity that is a Released Party by virtue of its relationship with a
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer): Subject to the provisions of
subsection IX(i)(3), each Subsequent Participating
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Manufacturer shall be entitled to the offset as described in subsections
(2)(A)-(C) above against payments it otherwise would owe under section
IX(i) to the extent that it (or any person or entity that is a Released
Party by virtue of its relationship with such Subsequent Participating
Manufacturer) has paid on a settlement, stipulated judgment or judgment
that would give rise to an offset under such subsections if paid by an
Original Participating Manufacturer.
XIII. CONSENT DECREES AND DISMISSAL OF CLAIMS
(a) Within 10 days after the MSA Execution Date (or, as to any Settling
State identified in the Additional States provision of Exhibit D, concurrently
with the filing of its lawsuit), each Settling State and each Participating
Manufacturer that is a party in any of the lawsuits identified in Exhibit D
shall jointly move for a stay of all proceedings in such Settling State's
lawsuit with respect to the Participating Manufacturers and all other Released
Parties (except any proceeding seeking public disclosure of documents pursuant
to subsection IV(b)). Such stay of a Settling State's lawsuit shall be
dissolved upon the earlier of the occurrence of State-Specific Finality or
termination of this Agreement with respect to such Settling State pursuant to
subsection XVIII(u)(1).
(b) Not later than December 11, 1998 (or, as to any Settling State
identified in the Additional States provision of Exhibit D, concurrently with
the filing of its lawsuit):
(1) each Settling State that is a party to a lawsuit identified
in Exhibit D and each Participating Manufacturer will:
(A) tender this Agreement to the Court in such Settling
State for its approval; and
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(B) tender to the Court in such Settling State for entry
a consent decree conforming to the model consent decree attached
hereto as Exhibit L (revisions or changes to such model consent
decree shall be limited to the extent required by state
procedural requirements to reflect accurately the factual setting
of the case in question, but shall not include any substantive
revision to the duties or obligations of any Settling State or
Participating Manufacturer, except by agreement of all Original
Participating Manufacturers); and
(2) each Settling State shall seek entry of an order of
dismissal of claims dismissing with prejudice all claims against the
Participating Manufacturers and any other Released Party in such
Settling State's action identified in Exhibit D. Provided, however,
that the Settling State is not required to seek entry of such an order
in such Settling State's action against such a Released Party (other
than a Participating Manufacturer) unless and until such Released Party
has released the Releasing Parties (and delivered to the Attorney
General of such Settling State a copy of such release) (which release
shall be effective upon the occurrence of State-Specific Finality in
such Settling State, and shall recite that in the event this Agreement
is terminated with respect to such Settling State pursuant to subsection
XVIII(u)(1) the Released Party agrees that the order of dismissal shall
be null and void and of no effect) from any and all Claims of such
Released Party relating to the prosecution of such action as provided in
subsection XII(a)(2).
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XIV. PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURERS' DISMISSAL OF RELATED LAWSUITS
(a) Upon State-Specific Finality in a Settling State, each
Participating Manufacturer will dismiss without prejudice (and without costs and
fees) the lawsuit(s) listed in Exhibit M pending in such Settling State in which
the Participating Manufacturer is a plaintiff. Within 10 days after the MSA
Execution Date, each Participating Manufacturer and each Settling State that is
a party in any of the lawsuits listed in Exhibit M shall jointly move for a stay
of all proceedings in such lawsuit. Such stay of a lawsuit against a Settling
State shall be dissolved upon the earlier of the occurrence of State-Specific
Finality in such Settling State or termination of this Agreement with respect to
such Settling State pursuant to subsection XVIII(u)(1).
(b) Upon State-Specific Finality in a Settling State, each
Participating Manufacturer will release and discharge any and all monetary
Claims against such Settling State and any of such Settling State's officers,
employees, agents, administrators, representatives, officials acting in their
official capacity, agencies, departments, commissions, divisions and counsel
relating to or in connection with the lawsuit(s) commenced by the Attorney
General of such Settling State identified in Exhibit D.
(c) Upon State-Specific Finality in a Settling State, each
Participating Manufacturer will release and discharge any and all monetary
Claims against all subdivisions (political or otherwise, including, but not
limited to, municipalities, counties, parishes, villages, unincorporated
districts and hospital districts) of such Settling State, and any of their
officers, employees, agents, administrators, representatives, officials acting
in their official capacity, agencies, departments,
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commissions, divisions and counsel arising out of Claims that have been waived
and released with continuing full force and effect pursuant to section XII of
this Agreement.
XV. VOLUNTARY ACT OF THE PARTIES
The Settling States and the Participating Manufacturers acknowledge and
agree that this Agreement is voluntarily entered into by each Settling State and
each Participating Manufacturer as the result of arm's-length negotiations, and
each Settling State and each Participating Manufacturer was represented by
counsel in deciding to enter into this Agreement. Each Participating
Manufacturer further acknowledges that it understands that certain provisions of
this Agreement may require it to act or refrain from acting in a manner that
could otherwise give rise to state or federal constitutional challenges and
that, by voluntarily consenting to this Agreement, it (and the Tobacco-Related
Organizations (or any trade associations formed or controlled by any
Participating Manufacturer)) waives for purposes of performance of this
Agreement any and all claims that the provisions of this Agreement violate the
state or federal constitutions. Provided, however, that nothing in the
foregoing shall constitute a waiver as to the entry of any court order (or any
interpretation thereof) that would operate to limit the exercise of any
constitutional right except to the extent of the restrictions, limitations or
obligations expressly agreed to in this Agreement or the Consent Decree.
XVI. CONSTRUCTION
(a) No Settling State or Participating Manufacturer shall be considered
the drafter of this Agreement or any Consent Decree, or any provision of either,
for the purpose of any statute, case law or rule of interpretation or
construction that would or might cause any provision to be construed against the
drafter.
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(b) Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as approval by the
Settling States of any Participating Manufacturer's business organizations,
operations, acts or practices, and no Participating Manufacturer may make any
representation to the contrary.
XVII. RECOVERY OF COSTS AND ATTORNEYS' FEES
(a) The Original Participating Manufacturers agree that, with respect
to any Settling State in which the Court has approved this Agreement and the
Consent Decree, they shall severally reimburse the following "Governmental
Entities": (1) the office of the Attorney General of such Settling State; (2)
the office of the governmental prosecuting authority for any political
subdivision of such Settling State with a lawsuit pending against any
Participating Manufacturer as of July 1, 1998 (as identified in Exhibit N) that
has released such Settling State and such Participating Manufacturer(s) from any
and all Released Claims (a "Litigating Political Subdivision"); and (3) other
appropriate agencies of such Settling State and such Litigating Political
Subdivision, for reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with the
litigation or resolution of claims asserted against the Participating
Manufacturers in the actions set forth in Exhibits D, M and N; provided that
such costs and expenses are of the same nature as costs and expenses for which
the Original Participating Manufacturers would reimburse their own counsel or
agents (but not including costs and expenses relating to lobbying activities).
(b) The Original Participating Manufacturers further agree severally to
pay the Governmental Entities in any Settling State in which State-Specific
Finality has occurred an amount sufficient to compensate such Governmental
Entities for time reasonably expended by attorneys and paralegals employed in
such offices in connection with the
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litigation or resolution of claims asserted against or by the Participating
Manufacturers in the actions identified in Exhibits D, M and N (but not
including time relating to lobbying activities), such amount to be calculated
based upon hourly rates equal to the market rate in such Settling State for
private attorneys and paralegals of equivalent experience and seniority.
(c) Such Governmental Entities seeking payment pursuant to subsection
(a) and/or (b) shall provide the Original Participating Manufacturers with an
appropriately documented statement of all costs, expenses and attorney and
paralegal time for which payment is sought, and, solely with respect to payments
sought pursuant to subsection (b), shall do so no earlier than the date on which
State-Specific Finality occurs in such Settling State. All amounts to be paid
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) shall be subject to reasonable verification
if requested by any Original Participating Manufacturer; provided, however, that
nothing contained in this subsection (c) shall constitute, cause, or require the
performance of any act that would constitute any waiver (in whole or in part) of
any attorney-client privilege, work product protection or common interest/joint
prosecution privilege. All such amounts to be paid pursuant to subsections (a)
and (b) shall be subject to an aggregate cap of $150 million for all Settling
States, shall be paid promptly following submission of the appropriate
documentation (and the completion of any verification process), shall be paid
separately and apart from any other amounts due pursuant to this Agreement, and
shall be paid severally by each Original Participating Manufacturer according to
its Relative Market Share. All amounts to be paid pursuant to subsection (b)
shall be paid to such Governmental Entities in the order in which State-
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Specific Finality has occurred in such Settling States (subject to the $150
million aggregate cap).
(d) The Original Participating Manufacturers agree that, upon the
occurrence of State-Specific Finality in a Settling State, they will severally
pay reasonable attorneys' fees to the private outside counsel, if any, retained
by such Settling State (and each Litigating Political Subdivision, if any,
within such Settling State) in connection with the respective actions identified
in Exhibits D, M and N and who are designated in Exhibit S for each Settling
State by the relevant Attorney General (and for each Litigating Political
Subdivision, as later certified in writing to the Original Participating
Manufacturers by the relevant governmental prosecuting authority of each
Litigating Political Subdivision) as having been retained by and having
represented such Settling State (or such Litigating Political Subdivision), in
accordance with the terms described in the Model Fee Payment Agreement attached
as Exhibit O.
XVIII. MISCELLANEOUS
(a) EFFECT OF CURRENT OR FUTURE LAW. If any current or future law
includes obligations or prohibitions applying to Tobacco Product Manufacturers
related to any of the provisions of this Agreement, each Participating
Manufacturer shall comply with this Agreement unless compliance with this
Agreement would violate such law.
(b) LIMITED MOST-FAVORED NATION PROVISION.
(1) If any Participating Manufacturer enters into any future
settlement agreement of other litigation comparable to any of the
actions identified in Exhibit D brought by a non-foreign governmental
plaintiff other than the federal government ("Future Settlement
Agreement"):
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(A) before October 1, 2000, on overall terms more
favorable to such governmental plaintiff than the overall terms
of this Agreement (after due consideration of relevant
differences in population or other appropriate factors), then,
unless a majority of the Settling States determines that the
overall terms of the Future Settlement Agreement are not more
favorable than the overall terms of this Agreement, the overall
terms of this Agreement will be revised so that the Settling
States will obtain treatment with respect to such Participating
Manufacturer at least as relatively favorable as the overall
terms provided to any such governmental plaintiff; provided,
however, that as to economic terms this Agreement shall not be
revised based on any such Future Settlement Agreement if such
Future Settlement Agreement is entered into after: (i) the
impaneling of the jury (or, in the event of a non-jury trial, the
commencement of trial) in such litigation or any severed or
bifurcated portion thereof; or (ii) any court order or judicial
determination relating to such litigation that (x) grants
judgment (in whole or in part) against such Participating
Manufacturer; or (y) grants injunctive or other relief that
affects the assets or on-going business activities of such
Participating Manufacturer in a manner other than as expressly
provided for in this Agreement; or
(B) on or after October 1, 2000, on terms more favorable
to such governmental plaintiff than the terms of this Agreement
(after due consideration of relevant differences in population or
other appropriate
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factors), and such Future Settlement Agreement includes terms
that provide for the implementation of non-economic
tobacco-related public health measures different from those
contained in this Agreement, then this Agreement shall be revised
to include terms comparable to such non-economic terms, unless a
majority of the Settling States elects against such revision.
(2) If any Settling State resolves Claims against any
Non-Participating Manufacturer after the MSA Execution Date comparable
to any Released Claim, and such resolution includes overall terms that
are more favorable to such Non-Participating Manufacturer than the terms
of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any terms that relate
to the marketing or distribution of Tobacco Products and any term that
provides for a lower settlement cost on a per pack sold basis), then the
overall terms of this Agreement will be revised so that the Original
Participating Manufacturers will obtain, with respect to that Settling
State, overall terms at least as relatively favorable (taking into
account, among other things, all payments previously made by the
Original Participating Manufacturers and the timing of any payments) as
those obtained by such Non-Participating Manufacturer pursuant to such
resolution of Claims. The foregoing shall include but not be limited:
(a) to the treatment by any Settling State of a Future Affiliate, as
that term is defined in agreements between any of the Settling States
and Brooke Group Ltd., Xxxxxxx & Xxxxx Inc. and/or Xxxxxxx Group, Inc.
("Xxxxxxx"), whether or not such Future Affiliate is merged with, or its
operations combined with, Xxxxxxx or any Affiliate thereof; and (b) to
any application of the
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terms of any such agreement (including any terms subsequently negotiated
pursuant to any such agreement) to a brand of Cigarettes (or
tobacco-related assets) as a result of the purchase by or sale to
Xxxxxxx of such brand or assets or as a result of any combination of
ownership among Xxxxxxx and any entity that manufactures Tobacco
Products. Provided, however, that revision of this Agreement pursuant
to this subsection (2) shall not be required by virtue of the subsequent
entry into this Agreement by a Tobacco Product Manufacturer that has not
become a Participating Manufacturer as of the MSA Execution Date.
Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection XVIII(j), the provisions of
this subsection XVIII(b)(2) may be waived by (and only by) unanimous
agreement of the Original Participating Manufacturers.
(3) The parties agree that if any term of this Agreement is
revised pursuant to subsection (b)(l) or (b)(2) above and the substance
of such term before it was revised was also a term of the Consent
Decree, each affected Settling State and each affected Participating
Manufacturer shall jointly move the Court to amend the Consent Decree to
conform the terms of the Consent Decree to the revised terms of the
Agreement.
(4) If at any time any Settling State agrees to relieve, in any
respect, any Participating Manufacturer's obligation to make the
payments as provided in this Agreement, then, with respect to that
Settling State, the terms of this Agreement shall be revised so that the
other Participating Manufacturers receive terms as relatively favorable.
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(c) TRANSFER OF TOBACCO BRANDS. No Original Participating Manufacturer
may sell or otherwise transfer or permit the sale or transfer of any of its
Cigarette brands, Brand Names, Cigarette product formulas or Cigarette
businesses (other than a sale or transfer of Cigarette brands or Brand Names to
be sold, product formulas to be used, or Cigarette businesses to be conducted,
by the acquiror or transferee exclusively outside of the States) to any person
or entity unless such person or entity is an Original Participating Manufacturer
or prior to the sale or acquisition agrees to assume the obligations of an
Original Participating Manufacturer with respect to such Cigarette brands, Brand
Names, Cigarette product formulas or businesses. No Participating Manufacturer
may sell or otherwise transfer any of its Cigarette brands, Brand Names,
Cigarette product formulas or Cigarette businesses (other than a sale or
transfer of Cigarette brands or Brand Names to be sold, Cigarette product
formulas to be used, or businesses to be conducted, by the acquiror or
transferee exclusively outside of the States) to any person or entity unless
such person or entity is or becomes prior to the sale or acquisition a
Participating Manufacturer. In the event of any such sale or transfer of a
Cigarette brand, Brand Name, Cigarette product formula or Cigarette business by
a Participating Manufacturer to a person or entity that within 180 days prior to
such sale or transfer was a Non-Participating Manufacturer, the Participating
Manufacturer shall certify to the Settling States that it has determined that
such person or entity has the capability to perform the obligations under this
Agreement. Such certification shall not survive beyond one year following the
date of any such transfer. Each Original Participating Manufacturer certifies
and represents that, except as provided in Exhibit R, it (or a wholly owned
Affiliate) exclusively owns and controls in the States the Brand Names of those
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Cigarettes that it currently manufactures for sale (or sells) in the States and
that it has the capacity to enter into an effective agreement concerning the
sale or transfer of such Brand Names pursuant to this subsection XVIII(c).
Nothing in this Agreement is intended to create any right for a State to obtain
any Cigarette product formula that it would not otherwise have under applicable
law.
(d) PAYMENTS IN SETTLEMENT. All payments to be made by the
Participating Manufacturers pursuant to this Agreement are in settlement of all
of the Settling States' antitrust, consumer protection, common law negligence,
statutory, common law and equitable claims for monetary, restitutionary,
equitable and injunctive relief alleged by the Settling States with respect to
the year of payment or earlier years, except that no part of any payment under
this Agreement is made in settlement of an actual or potential liability for a
fine, penalty (civil or criminal) or enhanced damages or is the cost of a
tangible or intangible asset or other future benefit.
(e) NO DETERMINATION OR ADMISSION. This Agreement is not intended to
be and shall not in any event be construed or deemed to be, or represented or
caused to be represented as, an admission or concession or evidence of (1) any
liability or any wrongdoing whatsoever on the part of any Released Party or that
any Released Party has engaged in any of the activities barred by this
Agreement; or (2) personal jurisdiction over any person or entity other than the
Participating Manufacturers. Each Participating Manufacturer specifically
disclaims and denies any liability or wrongdoing whatsoever with respect to the
claims and allegations asserted against it by the Attorneys General of the
Settling States and the Litigating Political Subdivisions. Each Participating
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Manufacturer has entered into this Agreement solely to avoid the further
expense, inconvenience, burden and risk of litigation.
(f) NON-ADMISSIBILITY. The settlement negotiations resulting in this
Agreement have been undertaken by the Settling States and the Participating
Manufacturers in good faith and for settlement purposes only, and no evidence of
negotiations or discussions underlying this Agreement shall be offered or
received in evidence in any action or proceeding for any purpose. Neither this
Agreement nor any public discussions, public statements or public comments with
respect to this Agreement by any Settling State or Participating Manufacturer or
its agents shall be offered or received in evidence in any action or proceeding
for any purpose other than in an action or proceeding arising under or relating
to this Agreement.
(g) REPRESENTATIONS OF PARTIES. Each Settling State and each
Participating Manufacturer hereby represents that this Agreement has been duly
authorized and, upon execution, will constitute a valid and binding contractual
obligation, enforceable in accordance with its terms, of each of them. The
signatories hereto on behalf of their respective Settling States expressly
represent and warrant that they have the authority to settle and release all
Released Claims of their respective Settling States and any of their respective
Settling States' past, present and future agents, officials acting in their
official capacities, legal representatives, agencies, departments, commissions
and divisions, and that such signatories are aware of no authority to the
contrary. It is recognized that the Original Participating Manufacturers are
relying on the foregoing representation and warranty in making the payments
required by and in otherwise performing under this Agreement. The Original
Participating Manufacturers shall have the right to terminate
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this Agreement pursuant to subsection XVIII(u) as to any Settling State as to
which the foregoing representation and warranty is breached or not effectively
given.
(h) OBLIGATIONS SEVERAL, NOT JOINT. All obligations of the
Participating Manufacturers pursuant to this Agreement (including, but not
limited to, all payment obligations) are intended to be, and shall remain,
several and not joint.
(i) HEADINGS. The headings of the sections and subsections of this
Agreement are not binding and are for reference only and do not limit, expand or
otherwise affect the contents or meaning of this Agreement.
(j) AMENDMENT AND WAIVER. This Agreement may be amended by a written
instrument executed by all Participating Manufacturers affected by the amendment
and by all Settling States affected by the amendment. The terms of any such
amendment shall not be enforceable in any Settling State that is not a signatory
to such amendment. The waiver of any rights conferred hereunder shall be
effective only if made by written instrument executed by the waiving party or
parties. The waiver by any party of any breach of this Agreement shall not be
deemed to be or construed as a waiver of any other breach, whether prior,
subsequent or contemporaneous, nor shall such waiver be deemed to be or
construed as a waiver by any other party.
(k) NOTICES. All notices or other communications to any party to this
Agreement shall be in writing (including, but not limited to, facsimile, telex,
telecopy or similar writing) and shall be given at the addresses specified in
Exhibit P (as it may be amended to reflect any additional Participating
Manufacturer that becomes a party to this Agreement after the MSA Execution
Date). Any Settling State or Participating Manufacturer may change or add the
name and address of the persons designated to
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receive notice on its behalf by notice given (effective upon the giving of such
notice) as provided in this subsection.
(l) COOPERATION. Each Settling State and each Participating
Manufacturer agrees to use its best efforts and to cooperate with each other to
cause this Agreement and the Consent Decrees to become effective, to obtain all
necessary approvals, consents and authorizations, if any, and to execute all
documents and to take such other action as may be appropriate in connection
herewith. Consistent with the foregoing, each Settling State and each
Participating Manufacturer agrees that it will not directly or indirectly assist
or encourage any challenge to this Agreement or any Consent Decree by any other
person, and will support the integrity and enforcement of the terms of this
Agreement and the Consent Decrees. Each Settling State shall use its best
efforts to cause State-Specific Finality to occur as to such Settling State.
(m) DESIGNEES TO DISCUSS DISPUTES. Within 14 days after the MSA
Execution Date, each Settling State's Attorney General and each Participating
Manufacturer shall provide written notice of its designation of a senior
representative to discuss with the other signatories to this Agreement any
disputes and/or other issues that may arise with respect to this Agreement.
Each Settling State's Attorney General shall provide such notice of the name,
address and telephone number of the person it has so designated to each
Participating Manufacturer and to NAAG. Each Participating Manufacturer shall
provide such notice of the name, address and telephone number of the person it
has so designated to each Settling State's Attorney General, to NAAG and to each
other Participating Manufacturer.
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(n) GOVERNING LAW. This Agreement (other than the Escrow Agreement)
shall be governed by the laws of the relevant Settling State, without regard to
the conflict of law rules of such Settling State. The Escrow Agreement shall be
governed by the laws of the State in which the Escrow Court is located, without
regard to the conflict of law rules of such State.
(o) SEVERABILITY.
(1) Sections VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XVI, XVIII(b),
(c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (o), (p), (r), (s), (u), (w), (z), (bb),
(dd), and Exhibits A, B, and E hereof ("Nonseverable Provisions") are
not severable, except to the extent that severance of section VI is
permitted by Settling States pursuant to subsection VI(i) hereof. The
remaining terms of this Agreement are severable, as set forth herein.
(2) If a court materially modifies, renders unenforceable, or
finds to be unlawful any of the Nonseverable Provisions, the NAAG
executive committee shall select a team of Attorneys General (the
"Negotiating Team") to attempt to negotiate an equivalent or comparable
substitute term or other appropriate credit or adjustment (a "Substitute
Term") with the Original Participating Manufacturers. In the event that
the court referred to in the preceding sentence is located in a Settling
State, the Negotiating Team shall include the Attorney General of such
Settling State. The Original Participating Manufacturers shall have no
obligation to agree to any Substitute Term. If any Original
Participating Manufacturer does not agree to a Substitute Term, this
Agreement shall be terminated in all Settling States affected by the
court's ruling. The Negotiating
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Team shall submit any proposed Substitute Term negotiated by the
Negotiating Team and agreed to by all of the Original Participating
Manufacturers to the Attorneys General of all of the affected Settling
States for their approval. If any affected Settling State does not
approve the proposed Substitute Term, this Agreement in such Settling
State shall be terminated.
(3) If a court materially modifies, renders unenforceable, or
finds to be unlawful any term of this Agreement other than a
Nonseverable Provision:
(A) The remaining terms of this Agreement shall remain
in full force and effect.
(B) Each Settling State whose rights or obligations
under this Agreement are affected by the court's decision in
question (the "Affected Settling State") and the Participating
Manufacturers agree to negotiate in good faith a Substitute Term.
Any agreement on a Substitute Term reached between the
Participating Manufacturers and the Affected Settling State shall
not modify or amend the terms of this Agreement with regard to
any other Settling State.
(C) If the Affected Settling State and the Participating
Manufacturers are unable to agree on a Substitute Term, then they
will submit the issue to non-binding mediation. If mediation
fails to produce agreement to a Substitute Term, then that term
shall be severed and the remainder of this Agreement shall remain
in full force and effect.
(4) If a court materially modifies, renders unenforceable, or
finds to be unlawful any portion of any provision of this Agreement, the
remaining portions
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of such provision shall be unenforceable with respect to the affected
Settling State unless a Substitute Term is arrived at pursuant to
subsection (o)(2) or (o)(3) hereof, whichever is applicable.
(p) INTENDED BENEFICIARIES. No portion of this Agreement shall provide
any rights to, or be enforceable by, any person or entity that is not a Settling
State or a Released Party. No Settling State may assign or otherwise convey any
right to enforce any provision of this Agreement.
(q) COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts.
Facsimile or photocopied signatures shall be considered as valid signatures as
of the date affixed, although the original signature pages shall thereafter be
appended.
(r) APPLICABILITY. The obligations and duties of each Participating
Manufacturer set forth herein are applicable only to actions taken (or omitted
to be taken) within the States. This subsection (r) shall not be construed as
extending the territorial scope of any obligation or duty set forth herein whose
scope is otherwise limited by the terms hereof.
(s) PRESERVATION OF PRIVILEGE. Nothing contained in this Agreement or
any Consent Decree, and no act required to be performed pursuant to this
Agreement or any Consent Decree, is intended to constitute, cause or effect any
waiver (in whole or in part) of any attorney-client privilege, work product
protection or common interest/joint defense privilege, and each Settling State
and each Participating Manufacturer agrees that it shall not make or cause to be
made in any forum any assertion to the contrary.
(t) NON-RELEASE. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this
Agreement, nothing in this Agreement shall limit, prejudice or otherwise
interfere with the rights of any Settling State or any Participating
Manufacturer to pursue any and all rights and
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remedies it may have against any Non-Participating Manufacturer or other
non-Released Party.
(u) TERMINATION.
(1) Unless otherwise agreed to by each of the Original
Participating Manufacturers and the Settling State in question, in the
event that (A) State-Specific Finality in a Settling State does not
occur in such Settling State on or before December 31, 2001; or (B) this
Agreement or the Consent Decree has been disapproved by the Court (or,
in the event of an appeal from or review of a decision of the Court to
approve this Agreement and the Consent Decree, by the court hearing such
appeal or conducting such review), and the time to Appeal from such
disapproval has expired, or, in the event of an Appeal from such
disapproval, the Appeal has been dismissed or the disapproval has been
affirmed by the court of last resort to which such Appeal has been taken
and such dismissal or disapproval has become no longer subject to
further Appeal (including, without limitation, review by the United
States Supreme Court); or (C) this Agreement is terminated in a Settling
State for whatever reason (including, but not limited to, pursuant to
subsection XVIII(o) of this Agreement), then this Agreement and all of
its terms (except for the non-admissibility provisions hereof, which
shall continue in full force and effect) shall be canceled and
terminated with respect to such Settling State, and it and all orders
issued by the courts in such Settling State pursuant hereto shall become
null and void and of no effect.
(2) If this Agreement is terminated with respect to a Settling
State for whatever reason, then (A) the applicable statute of limitation
or any similar time
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requirement shall be tolled from the date such Settling State signed
this Agreement until the later of the time permitted by applicable law
or for one year from the date of such termination, with the effect that
the parties shall be in the same position with respect to the statute of
limitation as they were at the time such Settling State filed its
action, and (B) the parties shall jointly move the Court for an order
reinstating the actions and claims dismissed pursuant to sections XIII
and XIV hereof, with the effect that the parties shall be in the same
position with respect to those actions and claims as they were at the
time the action or claim was stayed or dismissed.
(v) FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS. Upon the occurrence of
State-Specific Finality in a Settling State, each Participating Manufacturer
will withdraw in writing any and all requests for information, administrative
applications, and proceedings brought or caused to be brought by such
Participating Manufacturer pursuant to such Settling State's freedom of
information law relating to the subject matter of the lawsuits identified in
Exhibit D.
(w) BANKRUPTCY. The following provisions shall apply if a
Participating Manufacturer both enters Bankruptcy and at any time thereafter is
not timely performing its financial obligations as required under this
Agreement:
(1) In the event that both a number of Settling States equal to
at least 75% of the total number of Settling States and Settling States
having aggregate Allocable Shares equal to at least 75% of the total
aggregate Allocable Shares assigned to all Settling States deem (by
written notice to the Participating Manufacturers other than the
bankrupt Participating Manufacturer) that the
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financial obligations of this Agreement have been terminated and
rendered null and void as to such bankrupt Participating Manufacturer
(except as provided in subsection (A) below) due to a material breach by
such Participating Manufacturer, whereupon, with respect to all Settling
States:
(A) all agreements, all concessions, all reductions of
Releasing Parties' Claims, and all releases and covenants not to
xxx, contained in this Agreement shall be null and void as to
such Participating Manufacturer. Provided, however, that (i) all
reductions of Releasing Parties' Claims, and all releases and
covenants not to xxx, contained in this Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect as to all persons or entities (other than
the bankrupt Participating Manufacturer itself or any person or
entity that, as a result of the Bankruptcy, obtains domestic
tobacco assets of such Participating Manufacturer (unless such
person or entity is itself a Participating Manufacturer)) who
(but for the first sentence of this subsection (A)) would
otherwise be Released Parties by virtue of their relationship
with the bankrupt Participating Manufacturer; and (ii) in the
event a Settling State asserts any Released Claim against a
bankrupt Participating Manufacturer after the termination of this
Agreement with respect to such Participating Manufacturer as
described in this subsection (1) and receives a judgment,
settlement or distribution arising from such Released Claim, then
the amount of any payments such Settling State has previously
received from such Participating Manufacturer under this
Agreement shall be applied against the amount of any such
judgment,
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settlement or distribution (provided that in no event shall such
Settling State be required to refund any payments previously
received from such Participating Manufacturer pursuant to this
Agreement);
(B) the Settling States shall have the right to assert
any and all claims against such Participating Manufacturer in the
Bankruptcy or otherwise without regard to any limits otherwise
provided in this Agreement (subject to any and all defenses
against such claims);
(C) the Settling States may exercise all rights provided
under the federal Bankruptcy Code (or other applicable bankruptcy
law) with respect to their Claims against such Participating
Manufacturer, including the right to initiate and complete police
and regulatory actions against such Participating Manufacturer
pursuant to the exceptions to the automatic stay set forth in
section 362(b) of the Bankruptcy Code (provided, however, that
such Participating Manufacturer may contest whether the Settling
State's action constitutes a police and regulatory action); and
(D) to the extent that any Settling State is pursuing a
police and regulatory action against such Participating
Manufacturer as described in subsection (1)(C), such
Participating Manufacturer shall not request or support a request
that the Bankruptcy court utilize the authority provided under
section 105 of the Bankruptcy Code to impose a discretionary stay
on the Settling State's action. The Participating Manufacturers
further agree that they will not request, seek or support relief
from the terms of this Agreement in any proceeding before any
court of law (including the
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federal bankruptcy courts) or an administrative agency or through
legislative action, including (without limitation) by way of
joinder in or consent to or acquiescence in any such pleading or
instrument filed by another.
(2) Whether or not the Settling States exercise the option set
forth in subsection (1) (and whether or not such option, if exercised,
is valid and enforceable):
(A) In the event that the bankrupt Participating
Manufacturer is an Original Participating Manufacturer, such
Participating Manufacturer shall continue to be treated as an
Original Participating Manufacturer for all purposes under this
Agreement except (i) such Participating Manufacturer shall be
treated as a Non-Participating Manufacturer (and not as an
Original Participating Manufacturer or Participating
Manufacturer) for all purposes with respect to subsections
IX(d)(1), IX(d)(2) and IX(d)(3) (including, but not limited to,
that the Market Share of such Participating Manufacturer shall
not be included in Base Aggregate Participating Manufacturer
Market Share or Actual Aggregate Participating Manufacturer
Market Share, and that such Participating Manufacturer's volume
shall not be included for any purpose under subsection
IX(d)(1)(D)); (ii) such Participating Manufacturer's Market Share
shall not be included as that of a Participating Manufacturer for
the purpose of determining whether the trigger percentage
specified in subsection IX(e) has been achieved (provided that
such Participating Manufacturer shall be
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treated as an Original Participating Manufacturer for all other
purposes with respect to such subsection); (iii) for purposes of
subsection (B)(iii) of Exhibit E, such Participating Manufacturer
shall continue to be treated as an Original Participating
Manufacturer, but its operating income shall be recalculated by
the Independent Auditor to reflect what such income would have
been had such Participating Manufacturer made the payments that
would have been due under this Agreement but for the Bankruptcy;
(iv) for purposes of subsection XVIII(c), such Participating
Manufacturer shall not be treated as an Original Participating
Manufacturer or as a Participating Manufacturer to the extent
that after entry into Bankruptcy it becomes the acquiror or
transferee of Cigarette brands, Brand Names, Cigarette product
formulas or Cigarette businesses of any Participating
Manufacturer (provided that such Participating Manufacturer shall
continue to be treated as an Original Participating Manufacturer
and Participating Manufacturer for all other purposes under such
subsection); and (v) as to any action that by the express terms
of this Agreement requires the unanimous agreement of all
Original Participating Manufacturers.
(B) In the event that the bankrupt Participating
Manufacturer is a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer, such
Participating Manufacturer shall continue to be treated as a
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer for all purposes under this
Agreement except (i) such Participating Manufacturer shall be
treated as a Non-Participating Manufacturer (and
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not as a Subsequent Participating Manufacturer or Participating
Manufacturer) for all purposes with respect to subsections
IX(d)(1), (d)(2) and (d)(4) (including, but not limited to, that
the Market Share of such Participating Manufacturer shall not be
included in Base Aggregate Participating Manufacturer Market
Share or Actual Aggregate Participating Manufacturer Market
Share, and that such Participating Manufacturer's volume shall
not be included for any purpose under subsection IX(d)(1)(D));
(ii) such Participating Manufacturer's Market Share shall not be
included as that of a Participating Manufacturer for the purpose
of determining whether the trigger percentage specified in
subsection IX(e) has been achieved (provided that such
Participating Manufacturer shall be treated as a Subsequent
Participating Manufacturer for all other purposes with respect to
such subsection); and (iii) for purposes of subsection XVIII(c),
such Participating Manufacturer shall not be treated as a
Subsequent Participating Manufacturer or as a Participating
Manufacturer to the extent that after entry into Bankruptcy it
becomes the acquiror or transferee of Cigarette brands, Brand
Names, Cigarette product formulas or Cigarette businesses of any
Participating Manufacturer (provided that such Participating
Manufacturer shall continue to be treated as a Subsequent
Participating Manufacturer and Participating Manufacturer for all
other purposes under such subsection).
(C) Revision of this Agreement pursuant to subsection
XVIII(b)(2) shall not be required by virtue of any resolution on
an
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involuntary basis in the Bankruptcy of Claims against the
bankrupt Participating Manufacturer.
(x) NOTICE OF MATERIAL TRANSFERS. Each Participating Manufacturer
shall provide notice to each Settling State at least 20 days before consummating
a sale, transfer of title or other disposition, in one transaction or series of
related transactions, of assets having a fair market value equal to five percent
or more (determined in accordance with United States generally accepted
accounting principles) of the consolidated assets of such Participating
Manufacturer.
(y) ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement (together with any agreements
expressly contemplated hereby and any other contemporaneous written agreements)
embodies the entire agreement and understanding between and among the Settling
States and the Participating Manufacturers relating to the subject matter hereof
and supersedes (l) all prior agreements and understandings relating to such
subject matter, whether written or oral, and (2) all purportedly contemporaneous
oral agreements and understandings relating to such subject matter.
(z) BUSINESS DAYS. Any obligation hereunder that, under the terms of
this Agreement, is to be performed on a day that is not a Business Day shall be
performed on the first Business Day thereafter.
(aa) SUBSEQUENT SIGNATORIES. With respect to a Tobacco Product
Manufacturer that signs this Agreement after the MSA Execution Date, the timing
of obligations under this Agreement (other than payment obligations, which shall
be governed by subsection II(jj)) shall be negotiated to provide for the
institution of such obligations on a schedule
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not more favorable to such subsequent signatory than that applicable to the
Original Participating Manufacturers.
(bb) DECIMAL PLACES. Any figure or percentage referred to in this
Agreement shall be carried to seven decimal places.
(cc) REGULATORY AUTHORITY. Nothing in section III of this Agreement is
intended to affect the legislative or regulatory authority of any local or State
government.
(dd) SUCCESSORS. In the event that a Participating Manufacturer ceases
selling a brand of Tobacco Products in the States that such Participating
Manufacturer owned in the States prior to July 1, 1998, and an Affiliate of such
Participating Manufacturer thereafter and after the MSA Execution Date
intentionally sells such brand in the States, such Affiliate shall be considered
to be the successor of such Participating Manufacturer with respect to such
brand. Performance by any such successor of the obligations under this
Agreement with respect to the sales of such brand shall be subject to
court-ordered specific performance.
(ee) EXPORT PACKAGING. Each Participating Manufacturer shall place a
visible indication on each pack of Cigarettes it manufactures for sale outside
of the fifty United States and the District of Columbia that distinguishes such
pack from packs of Cigarettes it manufactures for sale in the fifty United
States and the District of Columbia.
(ff) ACTIONS WITHIN GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES OF SETTLING STATES. To the
extent that any provision of this Agreement expressly prohibits, restricts, or
requires any action to be taken "within" any Settling State or the Settling
States, the relevant prohibition, restriction, or requirement applies within the
geographic boundaries of the applicable
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Settling State or Settling States, including, but not limited to, Indian country
or Indian trust land within such geographic boundaries.
(gg) NOTICE TO AFFILIATES. Each Participating Manufacturer shall give
notice of this Agreement to each of its Affiliates.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Settling State and each Participating
Manufacturer, through their fully authorized representatives, have agreed to
this Agreement.
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STATE OF ALABAMA
By:
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Xxx Xxxxx, Jr.
Governor
Date:
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By:
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Xxxx Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF ALASKA
By:
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Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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AMERICAN SAMOA
By:
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Governor
Date:
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By:
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Toetagata Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF ARIZONA
By:
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Xxxxx Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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By:
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Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Director
Arizona Health Care Cost
Containment System
Date:
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STATE OF ARKANSAS
By:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
By:
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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By:
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Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Director
California Department of Health Services
Date:
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STATE OF COLORADO
By:
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Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT
By:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF DELAWARE
By:
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M. Xxxx Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
By:
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Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Corporation Counsel
Date:
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By:
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Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Jr.
Mayor
Date:
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STATE OF GEORGIA
By:
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Xxxx Xxxxxx
Governor
Date:
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By:
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Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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GUAM
By:
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Xxxx X.X. Xxxxxxxxx
Governor
Date:
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By:
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Xxx Xxxx
Acting Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF HAWAII
By:
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF IDAHO
By:
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF ILLINOIS
By:
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Xxx Xxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF INDIANA
By:
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Xxxxx X. X'Xxxxxx
Governor
Date:
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By:
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF IOWA
By:
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Xxx Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF KANSAS
By:
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Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
By:
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx "Ben" Xxxxxxxx III
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF LOUISIANA
By:
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Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF MAINE
By:
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF MARYLAND
By:
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J. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xx.
Attorney General
Date:
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
By:
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Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
By:
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Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF MISSOURI
By:
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Xxxxxxxx X. (Xxx) Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF MONTANA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF NEBRASKA
By:
------------------------------
Xxx Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
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STATE OF NEVADA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx Xxx Del Papa
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF NEW MEXICO
By:
------------------------------
Xxx Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF NEW YORK
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Governor
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx Xxxxx
(Acting) Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF OHIO
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
By:
------------------------------
W.A. Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF OREGON
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date: __________________
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO
By:
------------------------------
Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Governor
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF TENNESSEE
By:
------------------------------
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF UTAH
By:
------------------------------
Xxx Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF VERMONT
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF THE UNITED
STATES
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF WASHINGTON
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. XxXxxx Xx.
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF WISCONSIN
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Governor
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
STATE OF WYOMING
By:
------------------------------
Xxx Xxxxxxxx
Governor
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Attorney General
Date:
----------------------------
XXXXXX XXXXXX INCORPORATED
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
General Counsel
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Counsel
Date:
----------------------------
X.X. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Executive Vice President and
General Counsel
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Counsel
Date:
----------------------------
XXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX TOBACCO
CORPORATION
By:
------------------------------
F. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Vice President and General Counsel
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Counsel
Date:
----------------------------
LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
General Counsel
Date:
----------------------------
By:
------------------------------
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Counsel
Date:
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EXHIBIT A
STATE ALLOCATION PERCENTAGES
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State Percentage
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Alabama 1.6161308%
Alaska 0.3414187%
Arizona 1.4738845%
Arkansas 0.8280661%
California 12.7639554%
Colorado 1.3708614%
Connecticut 1.8565373%
Delaware 0.3954695%
D.C. 0.6071183%
Florida 0.0000000%
Georgia 2.4544575%
Hawaii 0.6018650%
Idaho 0.3632632%
Illinois 4.6542472%
Indiana 2.0398033%
Iowa 0.8696670%
Kansas 0.8336712%
Kentucky 1.7611586%
Louisiana 2.2553531%
Maine 0.7693505%
Maryland 2.2604570%
Massachusetts 4.0389790%
Michigan 4.3519476%
Minnesota 0.0000000%
Mississippi 0.0000000%
Missouri 2.2746011%
Montana 0.4247591%
Nebraska 0.5949833%
Nevada 0.6099351%
New Hampshire 0.6659340%
New Jersey 3.8669963%
New Mexico 0.5963897%
New York 12.7620310%
North Carolina 2.3322850%
North Dakota 0.3660138%
Ohio 5.0375098%
Oklahoma 1.0361370%
Oregon 1.1476582%
Pennsylvania 5.7468588%
Rhode Island 0.7189054%
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 0.0000000%
Xxxxx Xxxxxx 0.3489458%
Tennessee 2.4408945%
Texas 0.0000000%
Utah 0.4448869%
Vermont 0.4111851%
Virginia 2.0447451%
Washington 2.0532582%
West Virginia 0.8864604%
Wisconsin 2.0720390%
Wyoming 0.2483449%
American Samoa 0.0152170%
N. Mariana Isld. 0.0084376%
Guam 0.0219371%
U.S. Virgin Isld. 0.0173593%
Puerto Rico 1.1212774%
Total 100.0000000%
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF ESCROW AGREEMENT
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This Escrow Agreement is entered into as of _______________, 1998 by the
undersigned State officials (on behalf of their respective Settling States), the
undersigned Participating Manufacturers and ____________________ as escrow agent
(the "Escrow Agent").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Settling States and the Participating Manufacturers have
entered into a settlement agreement entitled the "Master Settlement Agreement"
(the "Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, the Agreement requires the Settling States and the
Participating Manufacturers to enter into this Escrow Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT OF ESCROW AGENT.
The Settling States and the Participating Manufacturers hereby appoint
______________________ to serve as Escrow Agent under this Agreement on the
terms and conditions set forth herein, and the Escrow Agent, by its execution
hereof, hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the duties and
obligations of the Escrow Agent set forth herein. The Settling States and the
Participating Manufacturers agree that the Escrow Agent appointed under the
terms of this Escrow Agreement shall be the Escrow Agent as defined in, and for
all purposes of, the Agreement.
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS.
(a) Capitalized terms used in this Escrow Agreement and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning given to such terms in the
Agreement.
(b) "Escrow Court" means the court of the State of New York
to which the Agreement is presented for approval, or such other court as agreed
to by the Original Participating Manufacturers and a majority of those Attorneys
General who are both the Attorney General of a Settling State and a member of
the NAAG executive committee at the time in question.
SECTION 3. ESCROW AND ACCOUNTS.
(a) All funds received by the Escrow Agent pursuant to the
terms of the Agreement shall be held and disbursed in accordance with the terms
of this Escrow Agreement. Such funds and any earnings thereon shall constitute
the "Escrow" and shall
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be held by the Escrow Agent separate and apart from all other funds and accounts
of the Escrow Agent, the Settling States and the Participating Manufacturers.
(b) The Escrow Agent shall allocate the Escrow among the following separate
accounts (each an "Account" and collectively the "Accounts"):
Subsection VI(b) Account
Subsection VI(c) Account (First)
Subsection VI(c) Account (Subsequent)
Subsection VIII(b) Account
Subsection VIII(c) Account
Subsection IX(b) Account (First)
Subsection IX(b) Account (Subsequent)
Subsection IX(c)(1) Account
Subsection IX(c)(2) Account
Subsection IX(e) Account
Disputed Payments Account
State-Specific Accounts with respect to each Settling State in
which State-Specific Finality occurs.
(c) All amounts credited to an Account shall be retained in such
Account until disbursed therefrom in accordance with the provisions of this
Escrow Agreement pursuant to (i) written instructions from the Independent
Auditor; or (ii) written instructions from all of the following: all of the
Original Participating Manufacturers; all of the Subsequent Participating
Manufacturers that contributed to such amounts in such Account; and all of the
Settling States (collectively, the "Escrow Parties"). In the event of a
conflict, instructions pursuant to clause (ii) shall govern over instructions
pursuant to clause (i).
(d) On the first Business Day after the date any payment is due under
the Agreement, the Escrow Agent shall deliver to each other Notice Party a
written statement showing the amount of such payment (or indicating that no
payment was made, if such is the case), the source of such payment, the Account
or Accounts to which such payment has been credited, and the payment
instructions received by the Escrow Agent from the Independent Auditor with
respect to such payment.
(e) The Escrow Agent shall comply with all payment instructions
received from the Independent Auditor unless before 11:00 a.m. (New York City
time) on the scheduled date of payment it receives written instructions to the
contrary from all of the Escrow Parties, in which event it shall comply with
such instructions.
(f) On the first Business Day after disbursing any funds from an
Account, the Escrow Agent shall deliver to each other Notice Party a written
statement showing the amount disbursed, the date of such disbursement and the
payee of the disbursed funds.
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SECTION 4. FAILURE OF ESCROW AGENT TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS.
In the event that the Escrow Agent fails to receive any written
instructions contemplated by this Escrow Agreement, the Escrow Agent shall be
fully protected in refraining from taking any action required under any section
of this Escrow Agreement other than Section 5 until such written instructions
are received by the Escrow Agent.
SECTION 5. INVESTMENT OF FUNDS BY ESCROW AGENT.
The Escrow Agent shall invest and reinvest all amounts from time to time
credited to the Accounts in either (i) direct obligations of, or obligations the
principal and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United
States of America; (ii) repurchase agreements fully collateralized by securities
described in clause (i) above; (iii) money market accounts maturing within 30
days of the acquisition thereof and issued by a bank or trust company organized
under the laws of the United States of America or of any of the 50 States
thereof (a "United States Bank") and having combined capital, surplus and
undistributed profits in excess of $500,000,000; or (iv) demand deposits with
any United States Bank having combined capital, surplus and undistributed
profits in excess of $500,000,000. To the extent practicable, monies credited
to any Account shall be invested in such a manner so as to be available for use
at the times when monies are expected to be disbursed by the Escrow Agent and
charged to such Account. Obligations purchased as an investment of monies
credited to any Account shall be deemed at all times to be a part of such
Account and the income or interest earned, profits realized or losses suffered
with respect to such investments (including, without limitation, any penalty for
any liquidation of an investment required to fund a disbursement to be charged
to such Account), shall be credited or charged, as the case may be, to, such
Account and shall be for the benefit of, or be borne by, the person or entity
entitled to payment from such Account. In choosing among the investment options
described in clauses (i) through (iv) above, the Escrow Agent shall comply with
any instructions received from time to time from all of the Escrow Parties. In
the absence of such instructions, the Escrow Agent shall invest such sums in
accordance with clause (i) above. With respect to any amounts credited to a
State-Specific Account, the Escrow Agent shall invest and reinvest all amounts
credited to such Account in accordance with the law of the applicable Settling
State to the extent such law is inconsistent with this Section 5.
SECTION 6. SUBSTITUTE FORM W-9; QUALIFIED SETTLEMENT FUND.
Each signatory to this Escrow Agreement shall provide the Escrow Agent
with a correct taxpayer identification number on a substitute Form W-9 or if it
does not have such a number, a statement evidencing its status as an entity
exempt from back-up withholding, within 30 days of the date hereof (and, if it
supplies a Form W-9, indicate thereon that it is not subject to backup
withholding). The escrow established pursuant to this Escrow Agreement is
intended to be treated as a Qualified Settlement Fund for federal tax purposes
pursuant to Treas. Reg. Section 1.468X-x. The Escrow Agent shall comply
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with all applicable tax filing, payment and reporting requirements, including,
without limitation, those imposed under Treas. Reg. Section 1.468B, and if
requested to do so shall join in the making of the relation-back election under
such regulation.
SECTION 7. DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF ESCROW AGENT.
The Escrow Agent shall have no duty or obligation hereunder other than
to take such specific actions as are required of it from time to time under the
provisions of this Escrow Agreement, and it shall incur no liability hereunder
or in connection herewith for anything whatsoever other than any liability
resulting from its own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Escrow Agent
shall not be bound in any way by any agreement or contract between the
Participating Manufacturers and the Settling States (whether or not the Escrow
Agent has knowledge thereof) other than this Escrow Agreement, and the only
duties and responsibilities of the Escrow Agent shall be the duties and
obligations specifically set forth in this Escrow Agreement.
SECTION 8. INDEMNIFICATION OF ESCROW AGENT.
The Participating Manufacturers shall indemnify, hold harmless and
defend the Escrow Agent from and against any and all losses, claims, liabilities
and reasonable expenses, including the reasonable fees of its counsel, which it
may suffer or incur in connection with the performance of its duties and
obligations under this Escrow Agreement, except for those losses, claims,
liabilities and expenses resulting solely and directly from its own gross
negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 9. RESIGNATION OF ESCROW AGENT.
The Escrow Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof
to the other parties hereto, but such resignation shall not become effective
until a successor Escrow Agent, selected by the Original Participating
Manufacturers and the Settling States, shall have been appointed and shall have
accepted such appointment in writing. If an instrument of acceptance by a
successor Escrow Agent shall not have been delivered to the resigning Escrow
Agent within 90 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the
resigning Escrow Agent may, at the expense of the Participating Manufacturers
(to be shared according to their pro rata Market Shares), petition the Escrow
Court for the appointment of a successor Escrow Agent.
SECTION 10. ESCROW AGENT FEES AND EXPENSES.
The Participating Manufacturers shall pay to the Escrow Agent its fees
as set forth in Appendix A hereto as amended from time to time by agreement of
the Original Participating Manufacturers and the Escrow Agent. The
Participating Manufacturers shall pay to the Escrow Agent its reasonable fees
and expenses, including all reasonable expenses, charges, counsel fees, and
other disbursements incurred by it or by its attorneys, agents and employees in
the performance of its duties and obligations under
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this Escrow Agreement. Such fees and expenses shall be shared by the
Participating Manufacturers according to their pro rata Market Shares.
SECTION 11. NOTICES.
All notices, written instructions or other communications to any party
or other person hereunder shall be given in the same manner as, shall be given
to the same person as, and shall be effective at the same time as provided in
subsection XVIII(k) of the Agreement.
SECTION 12. SETOFF; REIMBURSEMENT.
The Escrow Agent acknowledges that it shall not be entitled to set off
against any funds in, or payable from, any Account to satisfy any liability of
any Participating Manufacturer. Each Participating Manufacturer that pays more
than its pro rata Market Share of any payment that is made by the Participating
Manufacturers to the Escrow Agent pursuant to Section 8, 9 or 10 hereof shall be
entitled to reimbursement of such excess from the other Participating
Manufacturers according to their pro rata Market Shares of such excess.
SECTION 13. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES; SUCCESSORS.
No persons or entities other than the Settling States, the Participating
Manufacturers and the Escrow Agent are intended beneficiaries of this Escrow
Agreement, and only the Settling States, the Participating Manufacturers and the
Escrow Agent shall be entitled to enforce the terms of this Escrow Agreement.
Pursuant to the Agreement, the Settling States have designated NAAG and the
Foundation as recipients of certain payments; for all purposes of this Escrow
Agreement, the Settling States shall be the beneficiaries of such payments
entitled to enforce payment thereof. The provisions of this Escrow Agreement
shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and, in the
case of the Escrow Agent and Participating Manufacturers, their respective
successors. Each reference herein to the Escrow Agent or to a Participating
Manufacturer shall be construed as a reference to its successor, where
applicable.
SECTION 14. GOVERNING LAW.
This Escrow Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed
by the laws of the State in which the Escrow Court is located, without regard to
the conflicts of law rules of such state.
SECTION 15. JURISDICTION AND VENUE.
The parties hereto irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the
continuing exclusive jurisdiction of the Escrow Court for purposes of any suit,
action or proceeding seeking to interpret or enforce any provision of, or based
on any right arising out of, this Escrow Agreement, and the parties hereto agree
not to commence any such suit, action or
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proceeding except in the Escrow Court. The parties hereto hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any such suit,
action or proceeding in the Escrow Court and hereby further irrevocably waive
and agree not to plead or claim in the Escrow Court that any such suit, action
or proceeding has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
SECTION 16. AMENDMENTS.
This Escrow Agreement may be amended only by written instrument executed
by all of the parties hereto that would be affected by the amendment. The
waiver of any rights conferred hereunder shall be effective only if made in a
written instrument executed by the waiving party. The waiver by any party of
any breach of this Agreement shall not be deemed to be or construed as a waiver
of any other breach, whether prior, subsequent or contemporaneous, of this
Escrow Agreement, nor shall such waiver be deemed to be or construed as a waiver
by any other party.
SECTION 17. COUNTERPARTS.
This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of
which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto
and hereto were upon the same instrument. Delivery by facsimile of a signed
counterpart shall be deemed delivery for purposes of acknowledging acceptance
hereof; however, an original executed Escrow Agreement must promptly thereafter
be delivered to each party.
SECTION 18. CAPTIONS.
The captions herein are included for convenience of reference only and
shall be ignored in the construction and interpretation hereof.
SECTION 19. CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS.
This Escrow Agreement shall become effective when each party hereto
shall have signed a counterpart hereof. The parties hereto agree to use their
best efforts to seek an order of the Escrow Court approving, and retaining
continuing jurisdiction over, the Escrow Agreement as soon as possible, and
agree that such order shall relate back to, and be deemed effective as of, the
date this Escrow Agreement became effective.
SECTION 20. ADDRESS FOR PAYMENTS.
Whenever funds are under the terms of this Escrow Agreement required to
be disbursed to a Settling State, a Participating Manufacturer, NAAG or the
Foundation, the Escrow Agent shall disburse such funds by wire transfer to the
account specified by such payee by written notice delivered to all Notice
Parties in accordance with Section 11 hereof at least five Business Days prior
to the date of payment. Whenever funds are under the terms of this Escrow
Agreement required to be disbursed to any other person or entity, the Escrow
Agent shall disburse such funds to such account as shall have been
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specified in writing by the Independent Auditor for such payment at least five
Business Days prior to the date of payment.
SECTION 21. REPORTING.
The Escrow Agent shall provide such information and reporting with
respect to the escrow as the Independent Auditor may from time to time request.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Escrow Agreement as
of the day and year first hereinabove written.
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APPENDIX A
SCHEDULE OF FEES AND EXPENSES
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EXHIBIT C
FORMULA FOR CALCULATING
INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS
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(1) Any amount that, in any given year, is to be adjusted for
inflation pursuant to this Exhibit (the "Base Amount") shall be adjusted upward
by adding to such Base Amount the Inflation Adjustment.
(2) The Inflation Adjustment shall be calculated by multiplying the
Base Amount by the Inflation Adjustment Percentage applicable in that year.
(3) The Inflation Adjustment Percentage applicable to payments due in
the year 2000 shall be equal to the greater of 3% or the CPI%. For example, if
the Consumer Price Index for December 1999 (as released in January 2000) is 2%
higher than the Consumer Price Index for December 1998 (as released in January
1999), then the CPI% with respect to a payment due in 2000 would be 2%. The
Inflation Adjustment Percentage applicable in the year 2000 would thus be 3%.
(4) The Inflation Adjustment Percentage applicable to payments due in
any year after 2000 shall be calculated by applying each year the greater of 3%
or the CPI% on the Inflation Adjustment Percentage applicable to payments due in
the prior year. Continuing the example in subsection (3) above, if the CPI%
with respect to a payment due in 2001 is 6%, then the Inflation Adjustment
Percentage applicable in 2001 would be 9.1800000% (an additional 6% applied on
the 3% Inflation Adjustment Percentage applicable in 2000), and if the CPI% with
respect to a payment due in 2002 is 4%, then the Inflation Adjustment Percentage
applicable in 2002 would be 13.5472000% (an additional 4% applied on the
9.1800000% Inflation Adjustment Percentage applicable in 2001).
(5) "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for All
Urban Consumers as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S.
Department of Labor (or other similar measures agreed to by the Settling States
and the Participating Manufacturers).
(6) The "CPI%" means the actual total percent change in the Consumer
Price Index during the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which the
payment in question is due.
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(7) ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES.
(A) Calculating the Inflation Adjustment Percentages:
Percentage to be
applied on the Inflation
Adjustment Percentage
for the prior year (i.e., Inflation
Payment Hypothetical the greater of 3% or the Adjustment
Year CPI% CPI%) Percentage
----------------------------------------------------------------
2000 2.4% 3.0% 3.0000000%
2001 2.1% 3.0% 6.0900000%
2002 3.5% 3.5% 9.8031500%
2003 3.5% 3.5% 13.6462603%
2004 4.0% 4.0% 18.1921107%
2005 2.2% 3.0% 21.7378740%
2006 1.6% 3.0% 25.3900102%
(B) Applying the Inflation Adjustment:
Using the hypothetical Inflation Adjustment Percentages
set forth in section (7)(A):
-- the subsection IX(c)(1) base payment amount for
2002 of $6,500,000,000 as adjusted for inflation
would equal $7,137,204,750;
-- the subsection IX(c)(1) base payment amount for
2004 of $8,000,000,000 as adjusted for inflation
would equal $9,455,368,856;
-- the subsection IX(c)(1) base payment amount for
2006 of $8,000,000,000 as adjusted for inflation
would equal $10,031,200,816.
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EXHIBIT D
LIST OF LAWSUITS
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1. ALABAMA
XXXXXXXX ET AL. V. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. ET AL.,
Circuit Court, Xxxxxxxxxx County, No. CV-96-1508-PR
2. ALASKA
STATE OF ALASKA V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Superior Court, First
Judicial District of Juneau, No. IJU-97915 CI (Alaska)
3. ARIZONA
STATE OF ARIZONA V. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., INC., ET AL., Superior Court,
Maricopa County, No. CV-96-14769 (Ariz.)
4. ARKANSAS
STATE OF ARKANSAS V. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., INC., ET AL., Chancery
Court, 6th Division, Pulaski County, No. IJ 97-2982 (Ark.)
5. CALIFORNIA
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL.,
Superior Court, Sacramento County, No. 97-AS-30301
6. COLORADO
STATE OF COLORADO ET AL., V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO CO., ET AL., District
Court, City and County of Denver, No. 97CV3432 (Colo.)
7. CONNECTICUT
STATE OF CONNECTICUT V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, ET AL., Superior Court, Judicial
District of Waterbury No. X02 CV96-0148414S (Conn.)
8. GEORGIA
STATE OF GEORGIA ET AL. V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Superior Court,
Xxxxxx County, No. CA E-61692 (Ga.)
9. HAWAII
STATE OF HAWAII X. XXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX TOBACCO CORP., ET AL., Circuit
Court, First Circuit, No. 00-0000-00 (Haw.)
10. IDAHO
STATE OF IDAHO V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Fourth Judicial District,
Ada County, No. XXXX 0000000X (Idaho)
11. ILLINOIS
PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS V. XXXXXX XXXXXX ET AL., Circuit Court
of Xxxx County, No. 96-L13146 (Ill.)
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12. INDIANA
STATE OF INDIANA V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Xxxxxx County Superior
Court, No. 49D 07-9702-CT-000236 (Ind.)
13. IOWA
STATE OF IOWA V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY ET AL., Iowa District
Court, Fifth Judicial District, Polk County, No. CL71048 (Iowa)
14. KANSAS
STATE OF KANSAS V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL., District Court
of Shawnee County, Division 2, No. 96-CV-919 (Kan.)
15. LOUISIANA
IEYOUB V. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL., 14th Judicial Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xx. 00-0000 (La.)
16. MAINE
STATE OF MAINE V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Superior Court, Kennebec
County, No. CV 97-134 (Me.)
17. MARYLAND
MARYLAND V. XXXXXX XXXXXX INCORPORATED, ET AL., Baltimore City Circuit
Court, No. 96-122017-CL211487 (Md.)
18. MASSACHUSETTS
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS V. XXXXXX XXXXXX INC., ET AL., Middlesex
Superior Court, No. 95-7378 (Mass.)
19. MICHIGAN
XXXXXX X. XXXXXX XXXXXX INCORPORATED, ET AL., Xxxxxx County Circuit
Court, 30th Judicial Circuit, No. 96-84281-CZ (Mich.)
20. MISSOURI
STATE OF MISSOURI V. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., INC. ET AL., Circuit Court,
City of St. Louis, No. 972-1465 (Mo.)
21. MONTANA
STATE OF MONTANA V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., First Judicial Court,
Xxxxx and Xxxxx County, No. CDV 9700306-14 (Mont.)
22. NEBRASKA
STATE OF NEBRASKA V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO CO., ET AL., District Court,
Lancaster County, No. 573277 (Neb.)
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23. NEVADA
NEVADA V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INCORPORATED, ET AL., Second Judicial Court,
Washoe County, No. CV97-03279 (Nev.)
24. NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW HAMPSHIRE V. R.J. XXXXXXXX, TOBACCO CO., ET AL., New Hampshire
Superior Court, Merrimack County, No. 97-E-165 (N.H.)
25. NEW JERSEY
STATE OF NEW JERSEY V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL., Superior
Court, Chancery Division, Middlesex County, No. C-254-96 (N.J.)
26. NEW MEXICO
STATE OF NEW MEXICO, V. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., ET AL., First Judicial
District Court, County of Santa Fe, No. SF-1235 c (N.M.)
27. NEW YORK STATE
STATE OF NEW YORK ET AL. V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Supreme Court
of the State of New York, County of New York, No. 400361/97 (N.Y.)
28. OHIO
STATE OF OHIO V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Court of Common Pleas,
Franklin County, No. 97CVH055114 (Ohio)
29. OKLAHOMA
STATE OF OKLAHOMA, ET AL. V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL.,
District Court, Cleveland County, No. CJ-96-1499-L (Okla.)
30. OREGON
STATE OF OREGON V. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., ET AL., Circuit Court,
Multnomah County, No. 9706-04457 (Or.)
31. PENNSYLVANIA
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Court of
Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, April Term 1997, No. 2443
32. PUERTO RICO
XXXXXXXX, ET AL. X. XXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX TOBACCO CORPORATION, ET AL., U.S.
District Court, Puerto Rico, No. 97-1910JAF
33. XXXXX XXXXXX
XXXXX XX XXXXX XXXXXX V. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., ET AL., Rhode Island
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xx. 00-0000 (R.I.)
34. SOUTH CAROLINA
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA X. XXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX TOBACCO CORPORATION, ET
AL.,
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Court of Common Pleas, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Richland County, No.
97-CP-40-1686 (S.C.)
35. SOUTH DAKOTA
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, ET AL. V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Circuit
Court, Xxxxxx County, Sixth Judicial Circuit, No. 98-65 (S.D.)
36. UTAH
STATE OF UTAH V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL., U.S. District
Court, Central Division, No. 96 CV 0829W (Utah)
37. VERMONT
STATE OF VERMONT V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL., Xxxxxxxxxx Superior
Court, Xxxxxxxxxx County, No. 744-97 (Vt.) and 5816-98 (Vt.)
38. WASHINGTON
STATE OF WASHINGTON V. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. INC., ET AL., Superior Court
of Washington, King County, No. 96-2-1505608SEA (Wash.)
39. WEST VIRGINIA
MCGRAW, ET AL. V. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL., Kanawha County
Circuit Court, No. 94-1707 (W. Va.)
40. WISCONSIN
STATE OF WISCONSIN V. XXXXXX XXXXXX INC., ET AL., Circuit Court, Branch
11, Dane County, No. 97-CV-328 (Wis.)
ADDITIONAL STATES
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For each Settling State not listed above, the lawsuit or other legal
action filed by the Attorney General or Governor of such Settling State
against Participating Manufacturers in the Court in such Settling State
prior to 30 days after the MSA Execution Date asserting Released Claims.
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EXHIBIT E
FORMULA FOR CALCULATING
VOLUME ADJUSTMENTS
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Any amount that by the terms of the Master Settlement Agreement is to be
adjusted pursuant to this Exhibit E (the "Applicable Base Payment") shall be
adjusted in the following manner:
(A) In the event the aggregate number of Cigarettes shipped in or to the
fifty United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico by the
Original Participating Manufacturers in the Applicable Year (as defined
hereinbelow) (the "Actual Volume") is greater than__________ Cigarettes
[figure being determined; to represent the aggregate number of
Cigarettes shipped in or to the fifty United States, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico in 1997 by those entities that were the
Original Participating Manufacturers as of the MSA Execution Date (and
any of their Affiliates that made such shipments in 1997 (as
demonstrated by a certified statement of such Affiliates' shipments),
and that do not continue to make such shipments after the MSA Execution
Date because the responsibility for such shipments has been transferred
to one of such Participating Manufacturers)] (the "Base Volume"), the
Applicable Base Payment shall be multiplied by the ratio of the Actual
Volume to the Base Volume.
(B) In the event the Actual Volume is less than the Base Volume,
i. The Applicable Base Payment shall be reduced by subtracting from
it the amount equal to such Applicable Base Payment multiplied
both by 0.98 and by the result of (i) 1(one) minus (ii) the ratio
of the Actual Volume to the Base Volume.
ii. Solely for purposes of calculating volume adjustments to the
payments required under subsection IX(c)(1), if a reduction of
the Base Payment due under such subsection results from the
application of subparagraph (B)(i) of this Exhibit E, but the
Original Participating Manufacturers' aggregate operating income
from sales of Cigarettes for the Applicable Year in the fifty
United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (the
"Actual Operating Income") is greater than $_____________ [figure
being determined; to represent the Original Participating
Manufacturers' aggregate operating income from such sales of
Cigarettes (including operating income from such sales of any of
their Affiliates that do not continue to have such sales after
the MSA Execution Date) in 1996] (the "Base Operating Income")
(such
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Base Operating Income being adjusted upward in accordance with
the formula for inflation adjustments set forth in Exhibit C
hereto beginning December 31, 1996 to be applied for each year
after 1996) then the amount by which such Base Payment is reduced
by the application of subsection (B)(i) shall be reduced (but not
below zero) by the amount calculated by multiplying (i) a
percentage equal to the aggregate Allocable Shares of the
Settling States in which State-Specific Finality has occurred by
(ii) 25% of such increase in such operating income. For purposes
of this Exhibit E, "operating income from sales of Cigarettes"
shall mean operating income from sales of Cigarettes in the fifty
United States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico: (a)
before goodwill amortization, trademark amortization,
restructuring charges and restructuring related charges, minority
interest, net interest expense, non-operating income and expense,
general corporate expenses and income taxes; and (b) excluding
extraordinary items, cumulative effect of changes in method of
accounting and discontinued operations -- all as such income is
reported to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
("SEC") for the Applicable Year (either independently by the
Participating Manufacturer or as part of consolidated financial
statements reported to the SEC by an Affiliate of such
Participating Manufacturer) or, in the case of an Original
Participating Manufacturer that does not report income to the
SEC, as reported in financial statements prepared in accordance
with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and audited by
a nationally recognized accounting firm. For years subsequent to
1998, the determination of the Original Participating
Manufacturers' aggregate operating income from sales of
Cigarettes shall not exclude any charges or expenses incurred or
accrued in connection with this Agreement or any prior settlement
of a tobacco and health case and shall otherwise be derived using
the same principles as were employed in deriving such Original
Participating Manufacturers' aggregate operating income from
sales of Cigarettes in 1996.
iii. Any increase in a Base Payment pursuant to subsection (B)(ii)
above shall be allocated among the Original Participating
Manufacturers in the following manner:
(1) only to those Original Participating Manufacturers
whose operating income from sales of Cigarettes in the fifty
United States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico for the
year for which the Base Payment is being adjusted is greater than
their respective operating income from such sales of Cigarettes
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(including operating income from such sales of any of their
Affiliates that do not continue to have such sales after the MSA
Execution Date) in 1997 (as increased for inflation as provided
in Exhibit C hereto); and
(2) among the Original Participating Manufacturers
described in paragraph (1) above in proportion to the ratio of
(x) the increase in the operating income from sales of Cigarettes
(as described in paragraph (1)) of the Original Participating
Manufacturer in question, to (y) the aggregate increase in the
operating income from sales of Cigarettes (as described in
paragraph (1)) of those Original Participating Manufacturers
described in paragraph (1) above.
(C) "Applicable Year" means the calendar year immediately preceding the year
in which the payment at issue is due, regardless of when such payment is
made.
(D) For purposes of this Exhibit, shipments shall be measured as provided in
subsection II(mm).
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EXHIBIT F
POTENTIAL LEGISLATION NOT TO BE OPPOSED
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1. Limitations on Youth access to vending machines.
2. Inclusion of cigars within the definition of tobacco products.
3. Enhancement of enforcement efforts to identify and prosecute violations
of laws prohibiting retail sales to Youth.
4. Encouraging or supporting use of technology to increase effectiveness of
age-of-purchase laws, such as, without limitation, the use of
programmable scanners, scanners to read drivers' licenses, or use of
other age/ID data banks.
5. Limitations on promotional programs for non-tobacco goods using tobacco
products as prizes or give-aways.
6. Enforcement of access restrictions through penalties on Youth for
possession or use.
7. Limitations on tobacco product advertising in or on school facilities,
or wearing of tobacco logo merchandise in or on school property.
8. Limitations on non-tobacco products which are designed to look like
tobacco products, such as bubble gum cigars, candy cigarettes, etc.
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EXHIBIT G
OBLIGATIONS OF THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE
UNDER THE MASTER SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
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(a) Upon court approval of a plan of dissolution The Tobacco Institute
("TI") will:
(1) EMPLOYEES. Promptly notify and arrange for the termination
of the employment of all employees; provided, however, that TI may
continue to engage any employee who is (A) essential to the wind-down
function as set forth in section (g) herein; (B) reasonably needed for
the sole purpose of directing and supporting TI's defense of ongoing
litigation; or (C) reasonably needed for the sole purpose of performing
the Tobacco Institute Testing Laboratory's (the "TITL") industry-wide
cigarette testing pursuant to the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC")
method or any other testing prescribed by state or federal law as set
forth in section (h) herein.
(2) EMPLOYEE BENEFITS. Fund all employee benefit and pension
programs; provided, however, that unless ERISA or other federal or state
law prohibits it, such funding will be accomplished through periodic
contributions by the Original Participating Manufacturers, according to
their Relative Market Shares, into a trust or a like mechanism, which
trust or like mechanism will be established within 90 days of court
approval of the plan of dissolution. An opinion letter will be appended
to the dissolution plan to certify that the trust plan is not
inconsistent with ERISA or employee benefit pension contracts.
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(3) LEASES. Terminate all leaseholds at the earliest possible
date pursuant to the leases; provided, however, that TI may retain or
lease anew such space (or lease other space) as needed for its wind-down
activities, for TITL testing as described herein, and for subsequent
litigation defense activities. Immediately upon execution of this
Agreement, TI will provide notice to each of its landlords of its desire
to terminate its lease with such landlord, and will request that the
landlord take all steps to re-lease the premises at the earliest
possible date consistent with TI's performance of its obligations
hereunder. TI will vacate such leasehold premises as soon as they are
re-leased or on the last day of wind-down, whichever occurs first.
(b) ASSETS/DEBTS. Within 60 days after court approval of a plan of
dissolution, TI will provide to the Attorney General of New York and append to
the dissolution plan a description of all of its assets, its debts, tax claims
against it, claims of state and federal governments against it, creditor claims
against it, pending litigation in which it is a party and notices of claims
against it.
(c) DOCUMENTS. Subject to the privacy protections provided by New York
Public Officers Law Sections 91-99, TI will provide a copy of or otherwise make
available to the State of New York all documents in its possession, excluding
those that TI continues to claim to be subject to any attorney-client privilege,
attorney work product protection, common interest/joint defense privilege or any
other applicable privilege (collectively, "privilege") after the re-examination
of privilege claims pursuant to court order in STATE OF OKLAHOMA v. X.X.
XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY, ET AL., CJ-96-2499-L (Dist. Ct., Cleveland County)
(the "Oklahoma action"):
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(1) TI will deliver to the Attorney General of the State of New
York a copy of the privilege log served by it in the Oklahoma action.
Upon a written request by the Attorney General, TI will deliver an
updated version of its privilege log, if any such updated version
exists.
(2) The disclosure of any document or documents claimed to be
privileged will be governed by section IV of this Agreement.
(3) At the conclusion of the document production and privilege
logging process, TI will provide a sworn affidavit that all documents in
its possession have been made available to the Attorney General of New
York except for documents claimed to be privileged, and that any
privilege logs that already exist have been made available to the
Attorney General.
(d) REMAINING ASSETS. On mutual agreement between TI and the Attorney
General of New York, a not-for-profit health or child welfare organization will
be named as the beneficiary of any TI assets that remain after lawful transfers
of assets and satisfaction of TI's employee benefit obligations and any other
debts, liabilities or claims.
(e) DEFENSE OF LITIGATION. Pursuant to Section 1006 of the New York
Not-for-Profit Corporations Law, TI will have the right to continue to defend
its litigation interests with respect to any claims against it that are pending
or threatened now or that are brought or threatened in the future. TI will
retain sole discretion over all litigation decisions, including, without
limitation, decisions with respect to asserting any privileges or defenses,
having privileged communications and creating privileged documents, filing
pleadings, responding to discovery requests, making motions, filing affidavits
and briefs, conducting party and non-party discovery, retaining expert witnesses
and consultants,
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preparing for and defending itself at trial, settling any claims asserted
against it, intervening or otherwise participating in litigation to protect
interests that it deems significant to its defense, and otherwise directing or
conducting its defense. Pursuant to existing joint defense agreements, TI may
continue to assist its current or former members in defense of any litigation
brought or threatened against them. TI also may enter into any new joint
defense agreement or agreements that it deems significant to its defense of
pending or threatened claims. TI may continue to engage such employees as
reasonably needed for the sole purpose of directing and supporting its defense
of ongoing litigation. As soon as TI has no litigation pending against it, it
will dissolve completely and will cease all functions consistent with the
requirements of law.
(f) NO PUBLIC STATEMENT. Except as necessary in the course of
litigation defense as set forth in section (e) above, upon court approval of a
plan of dissolution, neither TI nor any of its employees or agents acting in
their official capacity on behalf of TI will issue any statements, press
releases, or other public statement concerning tobacco.
(g) WIND-DOWN. After court approval of a plan of dissolution, TI will
effectuate wind-down of all activities (other than its defense of litigation as
described in section (e) above) expeditiously, and in no event later than 180
days after the date of court approval of the plan of dissolution. TI will
provide monthly status reports to the Attorney General of New York regarding the
progress of wind-down efforts and work remaining to be done with respect to such
efforts.
(h) TITL. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Exhibit G or the
dissolution plan, TI may perform TITL industry-wide cigarette testing pursuant
to the FTC method or any other testing prescribed by state or federal law until
such function is
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transferred to another entity, which transfer will be accomplished as soon as
practicable but in no event more than 180 days after court approval of the
dissolution plan.
(i) JURISDICTION. After the filing of a Certificate of Dissolution,
pursuant to Section 1004 of the New York Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, the
Supreme Court for the State of New York will have continuing jurisdiction over
the dissolution of TI and the winding-down of TI's activities, including any
litigation-related activities described in subsection (e) herein.
(j) NO DETERMINATION OR ADMISSION. The dissolution of TI and any
proceedings taken hereunder are not intended to be and shall not in any event be
construed as, deemed to be, or represented or caused to be represented by any
Settling State as, an admission or concession or evidence of any liability or
any wrongdoing whatsoever on the part of TI, any of its current or former
members or anyone acting on their behalf. TI specifically disclaims and denies
any liability or wrongdoing whatsoever with respect to the claims and
allegations asserted against it by the Attorneys General of the Settling States.
(k) COURT APPROVAL. The Attorney General of the State of New York and
the Original Participating Manufacturers will prepare a joint plan of
dissolution for submission to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, all of
the terms of which will be agreed on and consented to by the Attorney General
and the Original Participating Manufacturers consistent with this schedule. The
Original Participating Manufacturers and their employees, as officers and
directors of TI, will take whatever steps are necessary to execute all documents
needed to develop such a plan of dissolution and to submit it to the court for
approval. If any court makes any material change to any term or
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provision of the plan of dissolution agreed upon and consented to by the
Attorney General and the Original Participating Manufacturers, then:
(1) the Original Participating Manufacturers may, at their
election, nevertheless proceed with the dissolution plan as modified by
the court; or
(2) if the Original Participating Manufacturers elect not to
proceed with the court-modified dissolution plan, the Original
Participating Manufacturers will be released from any obligations or
undertakings under this Agreement or this schedule with respect to TI;
provided, however, that the Original Participating Manufacturers will
engage in good faith negotiations with the New York Attorney General to
agree upon the term or terms of the dissolution plan that the court may
have modified in an effort to agree upon a dissolution plan that may be
resubmitted for the court's consideration.
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EXHIBIT H
DOCUMENT PRODUCTION
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Section 1.
(a) XXXXXX XXXXXX COMPANIES, INC., ET AL., v. AMERICAN BROADCASTING
COMPANIES, INC., ET AL., At Law No. 760CL94X00816-00 (Cir. Ct., City of
Richmond)
(b) HARLEY-DAVIDSON v. LORILLARD TOBACCO CO., No. 93-947 (S.D.N.Y.)
(c) LORILLARD TOBACCO CO. x. XXXXXX-XXXXXXXX, No. 93-6098 (E.D. Wis.)
(d) XXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX x. XXXXXXXX AND CBS, INC., No. 82-648 (N.D. Ill.)
(e) The FTC investigations of tobacco industry advertising and promotion as
embodied in the following cites:
1. 46 FTC 706
2. 48 FTC 82
3. 46 FTC 735
4. 47 FTC 1393
5. 108 F. Supp. 573
6. 55 FTC 354
7. 56 FTC 96
8. 79 FTC 255
9. 80 FTC 455
10. Investigation #8023069
11. Investigation #8323222
Each Original Participating Manufacturer and Tobacco-Related
Organization will conduct its own reasonable inquiry to determine what documents
or deposition testimony, if any, it produced or provided in the above-listed
matters.
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Xxxxxxx 0.
(x) XXXXX XX XXXXXXXXXX v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., ET AL., No.
96-2-15056-8 SEA (Wash. Super. Ct., County of King)
(b) IN RE XXXX XXXXX, ATTORNEY GENERAL, EX REL, STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TOBACCO LITIGATION, No. 94-1429 (Chancery Ct., Xxxxxxx, Miss.)
(c) STATE OF FLORIDA v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., ET AL., No. CL 95-1466
AH (Fla. Cir. Ct., 15th Judicial Cir., Palm Beach Co.)
(d) STATE OF TEXAS v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., ET AL., No. 5-96CV-91
(E.D. Tex.)
(e) MINNESOTA v. XXXXXX XXXXXX ET AL., No. C-94-8565 (Minn. Dist.
Ct., County of Xxxxxx)
(f) BROIN v. X.X. XXXXXXXX, No. 91-49738 CA (22) (11th Judicial Ct.,
Dade County, Florida)
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EXHIBIT I
INDEX AND SEARCH FEATURES FOR DOCUMENT WEBSITE
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(a) Each Original Participating Manufacturer and Tobacco-Related
Organization will create and maintain on its website, at its expense, an
enhanced, searchable index, as described below, using Alta-Vista or functionally
comparable software, for all of the documents currently on its website and all
documents being placed on its website pursuant to section IV of this Agreement.
(b) The searchable indices of documents on these websites will include:
(1) all of the information contained in the 4(b) indices
produced to the State Attorneys General (excluding fields specific only
to the Minnesota action other than "request number");
(2) the following additional fields of information (or their
substantial equivalent) to the extent such information already exists in
an electronic format that can be incorporated into such an index:
Document ID Master ID
Other Number Document Date
Primary Type Other Type
Person Attending Person Noted
Person Author Person Recipient
Person Copied Person Mentioned
Organization Author Organization Recipient
Organization Copied Organization Mentioned
Organization Attending Organization Noted
Physical Attachment 1 Physical Attachment 2
Characteristics File Name
Site Area
Verbatim Title Old Brand
Primary Brand Mentioned Brand
Page Count
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(c) Each Original Participating Manufacturer and Tobacco-Related
Organization will add, if not already available, a user-friendly document
retrieval feature on the Website consisting of a "view all pages" function with
enhanced image viewer capability that will enable users to choose to view and/or
print either "all pages" for a specific document or "page-by-page".
(d) Each Original Participating Manufacturer and Tobacco-Related
Organizations will provide at its own expense to NAAG a copy set in electronic
form of its website document images and its accompanying subsection IV(h) index
in ASCII-delimited form for all of the documents currently on its website and
all of the documents described in subsection IV(d) of this Agreement. The
Original Participating Manufacturers and Tobacco-Related Organizations will not
object to any subsequent distribution and/or reproduction of these copy sets.
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EXHIBIT J
TOBACCO ENFORCEMENT FUND PROTOCOL
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The States' Antitrust/Consumer Protection Tobacco Enforcement Fund
("Fund") is established by the Attorneys General of the Settling States, acting
through NAAG, pursuant to section VIII(c) of the Agreement. The following shall
be the primary and mandatory protocol for the administration of the Fund.
SECTION A
FUND PURPOSE
SECTION 1
The monies to be paid pursuant to section VIII(c) of the Agreement shall
be placed by NAAG in a new and separate interest bearing account, denominated
the States' Antitrust/ Consumer Protection Tobacco Enforcement Fund, which shall
not then or thereafter be commingled with any other funds or accounts. However,
nothing herein shall prevent deposits into the account so long as monies so
deposited are then lawfully committed for the purpose of the Fund as set forth
herein.
SECTION 2
A committee of three Attorneys General ("Special Committee") shall be
established to determine disbursements from the account, using the process
described herein. The three shall be the Attorney General of the State of
Washington, the Chair of NAAG's antitrust committee, and the Chair of NAAG's
consumer protection committee. In the event that an Attorney General shall hold
either two or three of the above stated positions, that Attorney General may
serve only in a single capacity, and shall be replaced in the remaining
positions by first, the President of NAAG, next by the President-Elect of NAAG
and if necessary the Vice-President of NAAG.
SECTION 3
The purpose of the Fund is: (1) to enforce and implement the terms of
the Agreement, in particular, by partial payment of the monetary costs of the
Independent Auditor as contemplated by the Agreement; and (2) to provide
monetary assistance to the various states' attorneys general: (A) to
investigate and/or litigate suspected violations of the Agreement and/or Consent
Decree; (B) to investigate and/or litigate suspected violations of state and/or
federal antitrust or consumer protection laws with respect to the manufacture,
use, marketing and sales of tobacco products; and (C) to enforce the Qualifying
Statute ("Qualifying Actions"). The Special Committee shall entertain requests
only from Settling States for disbursement from the fund associated with a
Qualifying Action ("Grant Application").
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SECTION B
ADMINISTRATION STANDARDS RELATIVE TO GRANT APPLICATIONS
SECTION 1
The Special Committee shall not entertain any Grant Application to pay
salaries or ordinary expenses of regular employees of any Attorney General's
office.
SECTION 2
The affirmative vote of two or more of the members of the Special
Committee shall be required to approve any Grant Application.
SECTION 3
The decision of the Special Committee shall be final and non-appealable.
SECTION 4
The Attorney General of the State of Washington shall be chair of the
Special Committee and shall annually report to the Attorneys General on the
requests for funds from the Fund and the actions of the Special Committee upon
the requests.
SECTION 5
When a Grant Application to the Fund is made by an Attorney General who
is then a member of the Special Committee, such member will be temporarily
replaced on the Committee, but only for the determination of such Grant
Application. The remaining members of the Special Committee shall designate an
Attorney General to replace the Attorney General so disqualified, in order to
consider the application.
SECTION 6
The Fund shall be maintained in a federally insured depository
institution located in Washington, D.C. Funds may be invested in federal
government-backed vehicles. The Fund shall be regularly reported on NAAG
financial statements and subject to annual audit.
SECTION 7
Withdrawals from and checks drawn on the Fund will require at least two
of three authorized signatures. The three persons so authorized shall be the
executive director, the deputy director, and controller of NAAG.
SECTION 8
The Special Committee shall meet in person or telephonically as
necessary to determine whether a grant is sought for assistance with a
Qualifying Action and whether and to what extent
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the Grant Application is accepted. The chair of the Special Committee shall
designate the times for such meetings, so that a response is made to the Grant
Application as expeditiously as practicable.
SECTION 9
The Special Committee may issue a grant from the Fund only when an
Attorney General certifies that the monies will be used in connection with a
Qualifying Action, to wit: (A) to investigate and/or litigate suspected
violations of the Agreement and/or Consent Decree; (B) to investigate and/or
litigate suspected violations of state and/or federal antitrust or consumer
protection laws with respect to the manufacture, use, marketing and sales of
tobacco products; and (C) to enforce the Qualifying Statute. The Attorney
General submitting such application shall further certify that the entire grant
of monies from the Fund will be used to pay for such investigation and/or
litigation. The Grant Application shall describe the nature and scope of the
intended action and use of the funds which may be granted.
SECTION 10
To the extent permitted by law, each Attorney General whose Grant
Application is favorably acted upon shall promise to pay back to the Fund all of
the amounts received from the Fund in the event the state is successful in
litigation or settlement of a Qualifying Action. In the event that the monetary
recovery, if any, obtained is not sufficient to pay back the entire amount of
the grant, the Attorney General shall pay back as much as is permitted by the
recovery. In all instances where monies are granted, the Attorney General(s)
receiving monies shall provide an accounting to NAAG of all disbursements
received from the Fund no later than the 30th of June next following such
disbursement.
SECTION 11
In addition to the repayments to the Fund contemplated in the preceding
section, the Special Committee may deposit in the Fund any other monies lawfully
committed for the precise purpose of the Fund as set forth in section A(3)
above. For example, the Special Committee may at its discretion accept for
deposit in the Fund a foundation grant or court-ordered award for state
antitrust and/or consumer protection enforcement as long as the monies so
deposited become part of and subject to the same rules, purposes and limitations
of the Fund.
SECTION 12
The Special Committee shall be the sole and final arbiter of all Grant
Applications and of the amount awarded for each such application, if any.
SECTION 13
The Special Committee shall endeavor to maintain the Fund for as long a
term as is consistent with the purpose of the Fund. The Special Committee will
limit the total amount of grants made to a single state to no more than
$500,000.00. The Special Committee will not
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award a single grant in excess of $200,000.00, unless the grant involves more
than one state, in which case, a single grant so made may not total more than
$300,000.00. The Special Committee may, in its discretion and by unanimous
vote, decide to waive these limitations if it determines that special
circumstances exist. Such decision, however, shall not be effective unless
ratified by a two-thirds majority vote of the NAAG executive committee.
SECTION C
GRANT APPLICATION PROCEDURES
SECTION 1
This Protocol shall be transmitted to the Attorneys General within 90
days after the MSA Execution Date. It may not be amended unless by
recommendation of the NAAG executive committee and majority vote of the Settling
States. NAAG will notify the Settling States of any amendments promptly and
will transmit yearly to the attorneys general a statement of the Fund balance
and a summary of deposits to and withdrawals from the Fund in the previous
calendar or fiscal year.
SECTION 2
Grant Applications must be in writing and must be signed by the Attorney
General submitting the application.
SECTION 3
Grant Applications must include the following:
(A) A description of the contemplated/pending action, including the scope of
the alleged violation and the area (state/regional/multi-state) likely
to be affected by the suspected offending conduct.
(B) A statement whether the action is actively and currently pursued by any
other Attorney General or other prosecuting authority.
(C) A description of the purposes for which the monies sought will be used.
(D) The amount requested.
(E) A directive as to how disbursements from the Fund should be made, e.g.,
either directly to a supplier of services (consultants, experts,
witnesses, and the like), to the Attorney General's office directly, or
in the case of multi-state action, to one or more Attorneys General's
offices designated as a recipient of the monies.
(F) A statement that the applicant Attorney(s) General will, to the extent
permitted by law, pay back to the Fund all, or as much as is possible,
of the monies received, upon receipt of any monetary recovery obtained
in the contemplated/pending litigation or settlement of the action.
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(G) A certification that no part of the grant monies will be used to pay the
salaries or ordinary expenses of any regular employee of the office of
the applicant(s) and that the grant will be used solely to pay for the
stated purpose.
(H) A certification that an accounting will be provided to NAAG of all
monies received by the applicant(s) by no later than the 30th of June
next following any receipt of such monies.
SECTION 4
All Grant Applications shall be submitted to the NAAG office at the
following address: National Association of Attorneys General, 000 0xx Xxxxxx,
XX, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxxxx X.X. 00000.
SECTION 5
The Special Committee will endeavor to act upon all complete and
properly submitted Grant Applications within 30 days of receipt of said
applications.
SECTION D
OTHER DISBURSEMENTS FROM THE FUND
SECTION 1
To enforce and implement the terms of the Agreement, the Special
Committee shall direct disbursements from the Fund to comply with the partial
payment obligations set forth in section XI of the Agreement relative to costs
of the Independent Auditor. A report of such disbursements shall be included in
the accounting given pursuant to section C(1) above.
SECTION E
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
SECTION 1
NAAG shall receive from the Fund on July 1, 1999 and on July 1 of each
year thereafter an administrative fee of $100,000 for its administrative costs
in performing its duties under the Protocol and this Agreement. The NAAG
executive committee may adjust the amount of the administrative fee in
extraordinary circumstances.
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EXHIBIT K
MARKET CAPITALIZATION PERCENTAGES
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Incorporated 68.0000000%
Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Tobacco Corporation 17.9000000%
Lorillard Tobacco Company 7.3000000%
X.X. Xxxxxxxx Tobacco Company 6.8000000%
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Total 100.0000000%
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EXHIBIT L
MODEL CONSENT DECREE
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IN THE [XXXXXX] COURT OF THE STATE OF [XXXXXX]
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF [XXXXX]
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:
STATE OF [XXXXXXXXXXX], :
Plaintiff, :
v. : CONSENT DECREE AND FINAL
[XXXXXX XXXXX XXXX], et al., : JUDGMENT
:
Defendants. :
:
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WHEREAS, Plaintiff, the State of [name of Settling State], commenced
this action on [date], [by and through its Attorney General [name]], pursuant to
[her/his/its] common law powers and the provisions of [state and/or federal
law];
WHEREAS, the State of [name of Settling State] asserted various claims
for monetary, equitable and injunctive relief on behalf of the State of [name of
Settling State] against certain tobacco product manufacturers and other
defendants;
WHEREAS, Defendants have contested the claims in the State's complaint
[and amended complaints, if any] and denied the State's allegations [and
asserted affirmative defenses];
WHEREAS, the parties desire to resolve this action in a manner which
appropriately addresses the State's public health concerns, while conserving the
parties' resources, as well as those of the Court, which would otherwise be
expended in litigating a matter of this magnitude; and
WHEREAS, the Court has made no determination of any violation of law,
this Consent Decree and Final Judgment being entered prior to the taking of any
testimony and without trial or final adjudication of any issue of fact or law;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED AND DECREED, AS FOLLOWS:
I. JURISDICTION AND VENUE
This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this action and
over each of the Participating Manufacturers. Venue is proper in this
[county/district].
II. DEFINITIONS
The definitions set forth in the Agreement (a copy of which is attached
hereto) are incorporated herein by reference.
III. APPLICABILITY
A. This Consent Decree and Final Judgment applies only to the
Participating Manufacturers in their corporate capacity acting through their
respective successors and assigns, directors, officers, employees, agents,
subsidiaries, divisions, or other internal organizational units of any kind or
any other entities acting in concert or participation with them. The remedies,
penalties and sanctions that may be imposed or assessed in connection with a
violation of this Consent Decree and Final Judgment (or any order issued in
connection herewith) shall only apply to the Participating Manufacturers, and
shall not be imposed or assessed against any employee, officer or director of
any Participating Manufacturer, or against any other person or entity as a
consequence of such violation, and there shall be no jurisdiction under this
Consent Decree and Final Judgment to do so.
B. This Consent Decree and Final Judgment is not intended to and does
not vest standing in any third party with respect to the terms hereof. No
portion of this Consent Decree and Final Judgment shall provide any rights to,
or be enforceable by, any person or entity other than the State of [name of
Settling State] or a Released Party. The State of [name of Settling State] may
not assign or otherwise convey any right to enforce any provision of this
Consent Decree and Final Judgment.
IV. VOLUNTARY ACT OF THE PARTIES
The parties hereto expressly acknowledge and agree that this Consent
Decree and Final Judgment is voluntarily entered into as the result of
arm's-length negotiation, and all parties hereto were represented by counsel in
deciding to enter into this Consent Decree and Final Judgment.
V. INJUNCTIVE AND OTHER EQUITABLE RELIEF
Each Participating Manufacturer is permanently enjoined from:
A. Taking any action, directly or indirectly, to target Youth within
the State of [name of Settling State] in the advertising, promotion or marketing
of Tobacco Products, or taking any action the primary purpose of which is to
initiate, maintain or increase the incidence of Youth smoking within the State
of [name of Settling State].
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B. After 180 days after the MSA Execution Date, using or causing to be
used within the State of [name of Settling State] any Cartoon in the
advertising, promoting, packaging or labeling of Tobacco Products.
C. After 30 days after the MSA Execution Date, making or causing to be
made any payment or other consideration to any other person or entity to use,
display, make reference to or use as a prop within the State of [name of
Settling State] any Tobacco Product, Tobacco Product package, advertisement for
a Tobacco Product, or any other item bearing a Brand Name in any Media;
provided, however, that the foregoing prohibition shall not apply to (1) Media
where the audience or viewers are within an Adult-Only Facility (provided such
Media are not visible to persons outside such Adult-Only Facility); (2) Media
not intended for distribution or display to the public; (3) instructional Media
concerning non-conventional cigarettes viewed only by or provided only to
smokers who are Adults; and (4) actions taken by any Participating Manufacturer
in connection with a Brand Name Sponsorship permitted pursuant to subsections
III(c)(2)(A) and III(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Agreement, and use of a Brand Name to
identify a Brand Name Sponsorship permitted by subsection III(c)(2)(B)(ii).
D. Beginning July 1, 1999, marketing, distributing, offering, selling,
licensing or causing to be marketed, distributed, offered, sold, or licensed
(including, without limitation, by catalogue or direct mail), within the State
of [name of Settling State], any apparel or other merchandise (other than
Tobacco Products, items the sole function of which is to advertise Tobacco
Products, or written or electronic publications) which bears a Brand Name.
Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall (1) require any
Participating Manufacturer to breach or terminate any licensing agreement or
other contract in existence as of June 20, 1997 (this exception shall not apply
beyond the current term of any existing contract, without regard to any renewal
or option term that may be exercised by such Participating Manufacturer); (2)
prohibit the distribution to any Participating Manufacturer's employee who is
not Underage of any item described above that is intended for the personal use
of such an employee; (3) require any Participating Manufacturer to retrieve,
collect or otherwise recover any item that prior to the MSA Execution Date was
marketed, distributed, offered, sold, licensed or caused to be marketed,
distributed, offered, sold or licensed by such Participating Manufacturer; (4)
apply to coupons or other items used by Adults solely in connection with the
purchase of Tobacco Products; (5) apply to apparel or other merchandise used
within an Adult-Only Facility that is not distributed (by sale or otherwise) to
any member of the general public; or (6) apply to apparel or other merchandise
(a) marketed, distributed, offered, sold, or licensed at the site of a Brand
Name Sponsorship permitted pursuant to subsection III(c)(2)(A) or
III(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Agreement by the person to which the relevant
Participating Manufacturer has provided payment in exchange for the use of the
relevant Brand Name in the Brand Name Sponsorship or a third-party that does not
receive payment from the relevant Participating Manufacturer (or any Affiliate
of such Participating Manufacturer) in connection with the marketing,
distribution, offer, sale or license of such apparel or other merchandise, or
(b) used at the site of a Brand Name Sponsorship permitted pursuant to
subsections III(c)(2)(A) or III(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Agreement (during such event)
that are not distributed (by sale or otherwise) to any member of the general
public.
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E. After the MSA Execution Date, distributing or causing to be
distributed within the State of [name of Settling State] any free samples of
Tobacco Products except in an Adult-Only Facility. For purposes of this Consent
Decree and Final Judgment, a "free sample" does not include a Tobacco Product
that is provided to an Adult in connection with (1) the purchase, exchange or
redemption for proof of purchase of any Tobacco Products (including, but not
limited to, a free offer in connection with the purchase of Tobacco Products,
such as a "two-for-one" offer), or (2) the conducting of consumer testing or
evaluation of Tobacco Products with persons who certify that they are Adults.
F. Using or causing to be used as a brand name of any Tobacco Product
pursuant to any agreement requiring the payment of money or other valuable
consideration, any nationally recognized or nationally established brand name or
trade name of any non-tobacco item or service or any nationally recognized or
nationally established sports team, entertainment group or individual celebrity.
Provided, however, that the preceding sentence shall not apply to any Tobacco
Product brand name in existence as of July 1, 1998. For the purposes of this
provision, the term "other valuable consideration" shall not include an
agreement between two entities who enter into such agreement for the sole
purpose of avoiding infringement claims.
G. After 60 days after the MSA Execution Date and through and including
December 31, 2001, manufacturing or causing to be manufactured for sale within
the State of [name of Settling State] any pack or other container of Cigarettes
containing fewer than 20 Cigarettes (or, in the case of roll-your-own tobacco,
any package of roll-your-own tobacco containing less than 0.60 ounces of
tobacco); and, after 150 days after the MSA Execution Date and through and
including December 31, 2001, selling or distributing within the State of [name
of Settling State] any pack or other container of Cigarettes containing fewer
than 20 Cigarettes (or, in the case of roll-your-own tobacco, any package of
roll-your-own tobacco containing less than 0.60 ounces of tobacco).
H. Entering into any contract, combination or conspiracy with any other
Tobacco Product Manufacturer that has the purpose or effect of: (1) limiting
competition in the production or distribution of information about health
hazards or other consequences of the use of their products; (2) limiting or
suppressing research into smoking and health; or (3) limiting or suppressing
research into the marketing or development of new products. Provided, however,
that nothing in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to (1) require any
Participating Manufacturer to produce, distribute or otherwise disclose any
information that is subject to any privilege or protection; (2) preclude any
Participating Manufacturer from entering into any joint defense or joint legal
interest agreement or arrangement (whether or not in writing), or from asserting
any privilege pursuant thereto; or (3) impose any affirmative obligation on any
Participating Manufacturer to conduct any research.
I. Making any material misrepresentation of fact regarding the health
consequences of using any Tobacco Product, including any tobacco additives,
filters, paper or other ingredients. Provided, however, that nothing in the
preceding sentence shall limit the exercise of any First Amendment right or the
assertion of any defense or position in any judicial, legislative or regulatory
forum.
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VI. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
A. Jurisdiction of this case is retained by the Court for the purposes
of implementing and enforcing the Agreement and this Consent Decree and Final
Judgment and enabling the continuing proceedings contemplated herein. Whenever
possible, the State of [name of Settling State] and the Participating
Manufacturers shall seek to resolve any issue that may exist as to compliance
with this Consent Decree and Final Judgment by discussion among the appropriate
designees named pursuant to subsection XVIII(m) of the Agreement. The State of
[name of Settling State] and/or any Participating Manufacturer may apply to the
Court at any time for further orders and directions as may be necessary or
appropriate for the implementation and enforcement of this Consent Decree and
Final Judgment. Provided, however, that with regard to subsections V(A) and
V(I) of this Consent Decree and Final Judgment, the Attorney General shall issue
a cease and desist demand to the Participating Manufacturer that the Attorney
General believes is in violation of either of such sections at least ten
Business Days before the Attorney General applies to the Court for an order to
enforce such subsections, unless the Attorney General reasonably determines that
either a compelling time-sensitive public health and safety concern requires
more immediate action or the Court has previously issued an Enforcement Order to
the Participating Manufacturer in question for the same or a substantially
similar action or activity. For any claimed violation of this Consent Decree
and Final Judgment, in determining whether to seek an order for monetary, civil
contempt or criminal sanctions for any claimed violation, the Attorney General
shall give good-faith consideration to whether: (1) the Participating
Manufacturer that is claimed to have committed the violation has taken
appropriate and reasonable steps to cause the claimed violation to be cured,
unless that party has been guilty of a pattern of violations of like nature; and
(2) a legitimate, good-faith dispute exists as to the meaning of the terms in
question of this Consent Decree and Final Judgment. The Court in any case in
its discretion may determine not to enter an order for monetary, civil contempt
or criminal sanctions.
B. This Consent Decree and Final Judgment is not intended to be, and
shall not in any event be construed as, or deemed to be, an admission or
concession or evidence of (1) any liability or any wrongdoing whatsoever on the
part of any Released Party or that any Released Party has engaged in any of the
activities barred by this Consent Decree and Final Judgment; or (2) personal
jurisdiction over any person or entity other than the Participating
Manufacturers. Each Participating Manufacturer specifically disclaims and
denies any liability or wrongdoing whatsoever with respect to the claims and
allegations asserted against it in this action, and has stipulated to the entry
of this Consent Decree and Final Judgment solely to avoid the further expense,
inconvenience, burden and risk of litigation.
C. Except as expressly provided otherwise in the Agreement, this
Consent Decree and Final Judgment shall not be modified (by this Court, by any
other court or by any other means) unless the party seeking modification
demonstrates, by clear and convincing evidence, that it will suffer irreparable
harm from new and unforeseen conditions. Provided, however, that the provisions
of sections III, V, VI and VII of this Consent Decree and Final Judgment shall
in no event be subject to modification without the consent of the State of [name
of Settling State] and all affected Participating Manufacturers. In the event
that any of the sections of this Consent
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Decree and Final Judgment enumerated in the preceding sentence are modified by
this Court, by any other court or by any other means without the consent of the
State of [name of Settling State] and all affected Participating Manufacturers,
then this Consent Decree and Final Judgment shall be void and of no further
effect. Changes in the economic conditions of the parties shall not be grounds
for modification. It is intended that the Participating Manufacturers will
comply with this Consent Decree and Final Judgment as originally entered, even
if the Participating Manufacturers' obligations hereunder are greater than those
imposed under current or future law (unless compliance with this Consent Decree
and Final Judgment would violate such law). A change in law that results,
directly or indirectly, in more favorable or beneficial treatment of any one or
more of the Participating Manufacturers shall not support modification of this
Consent Decree and Final Judgment.
D. In any proceeding which results in a finding that a Participating
Manufacturer violated this Consent Decree and Final Judgment, the Participating
Manufacturer or Participating Manufacturers found to be in violation shall pay
the State's costs and attorneys' fees incurred by the State of [name of Settling
State] in such proceeding.
E. The remedies in this Consent Decree and Final Judgment are
cumulative and in addition to any other remedies the State of [name of Settling
State] may have at law or equity, including but not limited to its rights under
the Agreement. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the State from
bringing an action with respect to conduct not released pursuant to the
Agreement, even though that conduct may also violate this Consent Decree and
Final Judgment. Nothing in this Consent Decree and Final Judgment is intended
to create any right for [name of Settling State] to obtain any Cigarette product
formula that it would not otherwise have under applicable law.
F. No party shall be considered the drafter of this Consent Decree and
Final Judgment for the purpose of any statute, case law or rule of
interpretation or construction that would or might cause any provision to be
construed against the drafter. Nothing in this Consent Decree and Final
Judgment shall be construed as approval by the State of [name of Settling State]
of the Participating Manufacturers' business organizations, operations, acts or
practices, and the Participating Manufacturers shall make no representation to
the contrary.
G. The settlement negotiations resulting in this Consent Decree and
Final Judgment have been undertaken in good faith and for settlement purposes
only, and no evidence of negotiations or discussions underlying this Consent
Decree and Final Judgment shall be offered or received in evidence in any action
or proceeding for any purpose. Neither this Consent Decree and Final Judgment
nor any public discussions, public statements or public comments with respect to
this Consent Decree and Final Judgment by the State of [name of Settling State]
or any Participating Manufacturer or its agents shall be offered or received in
evidence in any action or proceeding for any purpose other than in an action or
proceeding arising under or relating to this Consent Decree and Final Judgment.
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H. All obligations of the Participating Manufacturers pursuant to this
Consent Decree and Final Judgment (including, but not limited to, all payment
obligations) are, and shall remain, several and not joint.
I. The provisions of this Consent Decree and Final Judgment are
applicable only to actions taken (or omitted to be taken) within the States.
Provided, however, that the preceding sentence shall not be construed as
extending the territorial scope of any provision of this Consent Decree and
Final Judgment whose scope is otherwise limited by the terms thereof.
J. Nothing in subsection V(A) or V(I) of this Consent Decree shall
create a right to challenge the continuation, after the MSA Execution Date, of
any advertising content, claim or slogan (other than use of a Cartoon) that was
not unlawful prior to the MSA Execution Date.
K. If the Agreement terminates in this State for any reason, then this
Consent Decree and Final Judgment shall be void and of no further effect.
VII. FINAL DISPOSITION
A. The Agreement, the settlement set forth therein, and the
establishment of the escrow provided for therein are hereby approved in all
respects, and all claims are hereby dismissed with prejudice as provided
therein.
B. The Court finds that the person[s] signing the Agreement have full
and complete authority to enter into the binding and fully effective settlement
of this action as set forth in the Agreement. The Court further finds that
entering into this settlement is in the best interests of the State of [name of
Settling State].
LET JUDGMENT BE ENTERED ACCORDINGLY
DATED this _____ day of ______________, 1998.
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EXHIBIT M
LIST OF PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURERS' LAWSUITS
AGAINST THE SETTLING STATES
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1. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL. V. XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE
STATE OF HAWAII, IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY, Civ. No. 96-00722HG, United
States District Court for the District of Hawaii
2. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL. V. XXXXX XXXXXXX, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE
STATE OF ALASKA, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, Civ. No. A97-0003CV, United
States District Court for the District of Alaska
3. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL. V. XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, Civ. No.
00-00000-XXX, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx District Court for the District of
Massachusetts
4. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC., ET AL. V. XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, Civ. No. 396CV01221
(PCD), United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
5. XXXXXX XXXXXX, ET AL. V. XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXX, ET AL., No. 1:98-ev-132,
United States District Court for the District of Vermont
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EXHIBIT N
LITIGATING POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS
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1. CITY OF NEW YORK, ET AL. V. THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE, INC. ET AL., Supreme
Court of the State of New York, County of New York, Index No. 406225/96
2. COUNTY OF ERIE V. THE TOBACCO INSTITUTE, INC. ET AL., Supreme Court of
the State of New York, County of Erie, Index No. I 1997/359
3. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES V. R.J. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO CO. ET al., San Diego
Superior Court, No. 707651
4. THE PEOPLE V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC. ET AL., San Francisco Superior Court,
No. 980864
5. COUNTY OF XXXX V. XXXXXX XXXXXX, INC. ET AL., Circuit Court of Xxxx
County, Ill., No. 97-L-4550
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EXHIBIT O
[MODEL] STATE FEE PAYMENT AGREEMENT
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This STATE Fee Payment Agreement (the "STATE Fee Payment Agreement") is
entered into as of _________, _____ between and among the Original Participating
Manufacturers and STATE Outside Counsel (as defined herein), to provide for
payment of attorneys' fees pursuant to Section XVII of the Master Settlement
Agreement (the "Agreement").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the State of STATE and the Original Participating Manufacturers
have entered into the Agreement to settle and resolve with finality all Released
Claims against the Released Parties, including the Original Participating
Manufacturers, as set forth in the Agreement; and
WHEREAS, Section XVII of the Agreement provides that the Original
Participating Manufacturers shall pay reasonable attorneys' fees to those
private outside counsel identified in Exhibit S to the Agreement, pursuant to
the terms hereof;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN THAT, in consideration of the mutual
agreement of the State of STATE and the Original Participating Manufacturers to
the terms of the Agreement and of the mutual agreement of STATE Outside Counsel
and the Original Participating Manufacturers to the terms of this STATE Fee
Payment Agreement, and such other consideration described herein, the Original
Participating Manufacturers and STATE Outside Counsel agree as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.
All definitions contained in the Agreement are incorporated by reference
herein, except as to terms specifically defined herein.
(a) "ACTION" means the lawsuit identified in Exhibit D, M or N to the
Agreement that has been brought by or against the State of STATE [or Litigating
Political Subdivision].
(b) "ALLOCATED AMOUNT" means the amount of any Applicable Quarterly
Payment allocated to any Private Counsel (including STATE Outside Counsel)
pursuant to section 17 hereof.
(c) "ALLOCABLE LIQUIDATED SHARE" means, in the event that the sum of
all Payable Liquidated Fees of Private Counsel as of any date specified in
section 8 hereof exceeds the Applicable Liquidation Amount for any payment
described therein, a percentage share of the Applicable Liquidation Amount equal
to the proportion of (i) the amount of
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the Payable Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel to (ii) the sum of Payable
Liquidated Fees of all Private Counsel.
(d) "APPLICABLE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT" means, for purposes of the payments
described in section 8 hereof -
(i) for the payment described in subsection (a) thereof, $125
million;
(ii) for the payment described in subsection (b) thereof, the
difference between (A) $250 million and (B) the sum of all amounts paid
in satisfaction of all Payable Liquidated Fees of Outside Counsel
pursuant to subsection (a) thereof;
(iii) for the payment described in subsection (c) thereof, the
difference between (A) $250 million and (B) the sum of all amounts paid
in satisfaction of all Payable Liquidated Fees of Outside Counsel
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) thereof;
(iv) for the payment described in subsection (d) thereof, the
difference between (A) $250 million and (B) the sum of all amounts paid
in satisfaction of all Payable Liquidated Fees of Outside Counsel
pursuant to subsections (a), (b) and (c) thereof;
(v) for the payment described in subsection (e) thereof, the
difference between (A) $250 million and (B) the sum of all amounts paid
in satisfaction of all Payable Liquidated Fees of Outside Counsel
pursuant to subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) thereof;
(vi) for each of the first, second and third quarterly
payments for any calendar year described in subsection (f) thereof,
$62.5 million; and
(vii) for each of the fourth calendar quarterly payments for
any calendar year described in subsection (f) thereof, the difference
between (A) $250 million and (B) the sum of all amounts paid in
satisfaction of all Payable Liquidated Fees of Outside Counsel with
respect to the preceding calendar quarters of the calendar year.
(e) "APPLICATION" means a written application for a Fee Award submitted
to the Panel, as well as all supporting materials (which may include video
recordings of interviews).
(f) "APPROVED COST STATEMENT" means both (i) a Cost Statement that has
been accepted by the Original Participating Manufacturers; and (ii) in the event
that a Cost Statement submitted by STATE Outside Counsel is disputed, the
determination by arbitration pursuant to subsection (b) of section 19 hereof as
to the amount of the reasonable costs and expenses of STATE Outside Counsel.
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(g) "COST STATEMENT" means a signed and attested statement of
reasonable costs and expenses of Outside Counsel for any action identified on
Exhibit D, M or N to the Agreement that has been brought by or against a
Settling State or Litigating Political Subdivision.
(h) "DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE" means the person designated in writing,
by each person or entity identified in Exhibit S to the Agreement [by the
Attorney General of the State of STATE or as later certified in writing by the
governmental prosecuting authority of the Litigating Political Subdivision], to
act as their agent in receiving payments from the Original Participating
Manufacturers for the benefit of STATE Outside Counsel pursuant to sections 8,
16 and 19 hereof, as applicable.
(i) "DIRECTOR" means the Director of the Private Adjudication Center of
the Duke University School of Law or such other person or entity as may be
chosen by agreement of the Original Participating Manufacturers and the
Committee described in the second sentence of paragraph (b)(ii) of section 11
hereof.
(j) "ELIGIBLE COUNSEL" means Private Counsel eligible to be allocated a
part of a Quarterly Fee Amount pursuant to section 17 hereof.
(k) "FEDERAL LEGISLATION" means federal legislation that imposes an
enforceable obligation on Participating Defendants to pay attorneys' fees with
respect to Private Counsel.
(l) "FEE AWARD" means any award of attorneys' fees by the Panel in
connection with a Tobacco Case.
(m) "LIQUIDATED FEE" means an attorneys' fee for Outside Counsel for
any action identified on Exhibit D, M or N to the Agreement that has been
brought by or against a Settling State or Litigating Political Subdivision, in
an amount agreed upon by the Original Participating Manufacturers and such
Outside Counsel.
(n) "OUTSIDE COUNSEL" means all those Private Counsel identified in
Exhibit S to the Agreement.
(o) "PANEL" means the three-member arbitration panel described in
section 11 hereof.
(p) "PARTY" means (i) STATE Outside Counsel and (ii) an Original
Participating Manufacturer.
(q) "PAYABLE COST STATEMENT" means the unpaid amount of a Cost
Statement as to which all conditions precedent to payment have been satisfied.
(r) "PAYABLE LIQUIDATED FEE" means the unpaid amount of a Liquidated
Fee as to which all conditions precedent to payment have been satisfied.
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(s) "PREVIOUSLY SETTLED STATES" means the States of Mississippi,
Florida and Texas.
(t) "PRIVATE COUNSEL" means all private counsel for all plaintiffs in a
Tobacco Case (including STATE Outside Counsel).
(u) "QUARTERLY FEE AMOUNT" means, for purposes of the quarterly
payments described in sections 16, 17 and 18 hereof -
(i) for each of the first, second and third calendar quarters
of any calendar year beginning with the first calendar quarter of 1999
and ending with the third calendar quarter of 2008, $125 million;
(ii) for each fourth calendar quarter of any calendar year
beginning with the fourth calendar quarter of 1999 and ending with the
fourth calendar quarter of 2003, the sum of (A) $125 million and (B) the
difference, if any, between (1) $375 million and (2) the sum of all
amounts paid in satisfaction of all Fee Awards of Private Counsel during
such calendar year, if any;
(iii) for each fourth calendar quarter of any calendar year
beginning with the fourth calendar quarter of 2004 and ending with the
fourth calendar quarter of 2008, the sum of (A) $125 million; (B) the
difference between (1) $375 million; and (2) the sum of all amounts paid
in satisfaction of all Fee Awards of Private Counsel during such
calendar year, if any; and (C) the difference, if any, between (1) $250
million and (2) the product of (A) .2 (two tenths) and (B) the sum of
all amounts paid in satisfaction of all Liquidated Fees of Outside
Counsel pursuant to section 8 hereof, if any;
(iv) for each of the first, second and third calendar quarters
of any calendar year beginning with the first calendar quarter of 2009,
$125 million; and
(v) for each fourth calendar quarter of any calendar year
beginning with the fourth calendar quarter of 2009, the sum of (A) $125
million and (B) the difference, if any, between (1) $375 million and (2)
the sum of all amounts paid in satisfaction of all Fee Awards of Private
Counsel during such calendar year, if any.
(v) "RELATED PERSONS" means each Original Participating Manufacturer's
past, present and future Affiliates, divisions, officers, directors, employees,
representatives, insurers, lenders, underwriters, Tobacco-Related Organizations,
trade associations, suppliers, agents, auditors, advertising agencies, public
relations entities, attorneys, retailers and distributors (and the predecessors,
heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns of each of the
foregoing).
(w) "STATE OF STATE" means the [applicable Settling State or the
Litigating Political Subdivision], any of its past, present and future agents,
officials acting in their
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official capacities, legal representatives, agencies, departments, commissions
and subdivisions.
(x) "STATE OUTSIDE COUNSEL" means all persons or entities identified in
Exhibit S to the Agreement by the Attorney General of State of STATE [or as
later certified by the office of the governmental prosecuting authority for the
Litigating Political Subdivision] as having been retained by and having
represented the STATE in connection with the Action, acting collectively by
unanimous decision of all such persons or entities.
(y) "TOBACCO CASE" means any tobacco and health case (other than a
non-class action personal injury case brought directly by or on behalf of a
single natural person or the survivor of such person or for wrongful death, or
any non-class action consolidation of two or more such cases).
(z) "UNPAID FEE" means the unpaid portion of a Fee Award.
SECTION 2. AGREEMENT TO PAY FEES.
The Original Participating Manufacturers will pay reasonable attorneys'
fees to STATE Outside Counsel for their representation of the State of STATE in
connection with the Action, as provided herein and subject to the CODE OF
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY of the American Bar Association. Nothing herein
shall be construed to require the Original Participating Manufacturers to pay
any attorneys' fees other than (i) a Liquidated Fee or a Fee Award and (ii) a
Cost Statement, as provided herein, nor shall anything herein require the
Original Participating Manufacturers to pay any Liquidated Fee, Fee Award or
Cost Statement in connection with any litigation other than the Action.
SECTION 3. EXCLUSIVE OBLIGATION OF THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPATING MANUFACTURERS.
The provisions set forth herein constitute the entire obligation of the
Original Participating Manufacturers with respect to payment of attorneys' fees
of STATE Outside Counsel (including costs and expenses) in connection with the
Action and the exclusive means by which STATE Outside Counsel or any other
person or entity may seek payment of fees by the Original Participating
Manufacturers or Related Persons in connection with the Action. The Original
Participating Manufacturers shall have no obligation pursuant to Section XVII of
the Agreement to pay attorneys' fees in connection with the Action to any
counsel other than STATE Outside Counsel, and they shall have no other
obligation to pay attorneys' fees to or otherwise to compensate STATE Outside
Counsel, any other counsel or representative of the State of STATE or the State
of STATE itself with respect to attorneys' fees in connection with the Action.
SECTION 4. RELEASE.
(a) Each person or entity identified in Exhibit S to the Agreement by
the Attorney General of the State of STATE [or as certified by the office of the
governmental prosecuting authority for the Litigating Political Subdivision]
hereby irrevocably releases
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the Original Participating Manufacturers and all Related Persons from any and
all claims that such person or entity ever had, now has or hereafter can, shall
or may have in any way related to the Action (including but not limited to any
negotiations related to the settlement of the Action). Such release shall not
be construed as a release of any person or entity as to any of the obligations
undertaken herein in connection with a breach thereof.
(b) In the event that STATE Outside Counsel and the Original
Participating Manufacturers agree upon a Liquidated Fee pursuant to section 7
hereof, it shall be a precondition to any payment by the Original Participating
Manufacturers to the Designated Representative pursuant to section 8 hereof that
each person or entity identified in Exhibit S to the Agreement by the Attorney
General of the State of STATE [or as certified by the office of the governmental
prosecuting authority for the Litigating Political Subdivision] shall have
irrevocably released all entities represented by STATE Outside Counsel in the
Action, as well as all persons acting by or on behalf of such entities
(including the Attorney General [or the office of the governmental prosecuting
authority] and each other person or entity identified on Exhibit S to the
Agreement by the Attorney General [or the office of the governmental prosecuting
authority]) from any and all claims that such person or entity ever had, now has
or hereafter can, shall or may have in any way related to the Action (including
but not limited to any negotiations related to the settlement of the Action).
Such release shall not be construed as a release of any person or entity as to
any of the obligations undertaken herein in connection with a breach thereof.
SECTION 5. NO EFFECT ON STATE OUTSIDE COUNSEL'S FEE CONTRACT.
The rights and obligations, if any, of the respective parties to any
contract between the State of STATE and STATE Outside Counsel shall be
unaffected by this STATE Fee Payment Agreement except (a) insofar as STATE
Outside Counsel grant the release described in subsection (b) of section 4
hereof; and (b) to the extent that STATE Outside Counsel receive any payments in
satisfaction of a Fee Award pursuant to section 16 hereof, any amounts so
received shall be credited, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, against any amount
payable to STATE Outside Counsel by the State of STATE [or the Litigating
Political Subdivision] under any such contract.
SECTION 6. LIQUIDATED FEES.
(a) In the event that the Original Participating Manufacturers and
STATE Outside Counsel agree upon the amount of a Liquidated Fee, the Original
Participating Manufacturers shall pay such Liquidated Fee, pursuant to the terms
hereof.
(b) The Original Participating Manufacturers' payment of any Liquidated
Fee pursuant to this STATE Fee Payment Agreement shall be subject to (i)
satisfaction of the conditions precedent stated in section 4 and paragraph
(c)(ii) of section 7 hereof; and (ii) the payment schedule and the annual and
quarterly aggregate national caps specified in
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sections 8 and 9 hereof, which shall apply to all payments made with respect to
Liquidated Fees of all Outside Counsel.
SECTION 7. NEGOTIATION OF LIQUIDATED FEES.
(a) If STATE Outside Counsel seek to be paid a Liquidated Fee, the
Designated Representative shall so notify the Original Participating
Manufacturers. The Original Participating Manufacturers may at any time make an
offer of a Liquidated Fee to the Designated Representative in an amount set by
the unanimous agreement, and at the sole discretion, of the Original
Participating Manufacturers and, in any event, shall collectively make such an
offer to the Designated Representative no more than 60 Business Days after
receipt of notice by the Designated Representative that STATE Outside Counsel
seek to be paid a Liquidated Fee. The Original Participating Manufacturers
shall not be obligated to make an offer of a Liquidated Fee in any particular
amount. Within ten Business Days after receiving such an offer, STATE Outside
Counsel shall either accept the offer, reject the offer or make a counteroffer.
(b) The national aggregate of all Liquidated Fees to be agreed to by
the Original Participating Manufacturers in connection with the settlement of
those actions indicated on Exhibits D, M and N to the Agreement shall not exceed
one billion two hundred fifty million dollars ($1,250,000,000).
(c) If the Original Participating Manufacturers and STATE Outside
Counsel agree in writing upon a Liquidated Fee -
(i) STATE Outside Counsel shall not be eligible for a Fee
Award;
(ii) such Liquidated Fee shall not become a Payable Liquidated
Fee until such time as (A) State-Specific Finality has occurred in the
State of STATE; (B) each person or entity identified in Exhibit S to the
Agreement by the Attorney General of the State of STATE [or as certified
by the office of the governmental prosecuting authority of the
Litigating Political Subdivision] has granted the release described in
subsection (b) of section 4 hereof; and (C) notice of the events
described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this paragraph has been
provided to the Original Participating Manufacturers.
(iii) payment of such Liquidated Fee pursuant to sections 8 and
9 hereof (together with payment of costs and expenses pursuant to
section 19 hereof), shall be STATE Outside Counsel's total and sole
compensation by the Original Participating Manufacturers in connection
with the Action.
(d) If the Original Participating Manufacturers and STATE Outside
Counsel do not agree in writing upon a Liquidated Fee, STATE Outside Counsel may
submit an Application to the Panel for a Fee Award to be paid as provided in
sections 16, 17 and 18 hereof.
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SECTION 8. PAYMENT OF LIQUIDATED FEE.
In the event that the Original Participating Manufacturers and STATE
Outside Counsel agree in writing upon a Liquidated Fee, and until such time as
the Designated Representative has received payments in full satisfaction of such
Liquidated Fee -
(a) On February 1, 1999, if the Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel
became a Payable Liquidated Fee before January 15, 1999, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Designated Representative
its Relative Market Share of the lesser of (i) the Payable Liquidated Fee of
STATE Outside Counsel, (ii) $5 million or (iii) in the event that the sum of all
Payable Liquidated Fees of all Outside Counsel as of January 15, 1999 exceeds
the Applicable Liquidation Amount, the Allocable Liquidated Share of STATE
Outside Counsel.
(b) On August 1, 1999, if the Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel
became a Payable Liquidated Fee on or after January 15, 1999 and before July 15,
1999, each Original Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the
Designated Representative its Relative Market Share of the lesser of (i) the
Payable Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel, (ii) $5 million or (iii) in the
event that the sum of all Payable Liquidated Fees of all Outside Counsel that
became Payable Liquidated Fees on or after January 15, 1999 and before July 15,
1999 exceeds the Applicable Liquidation Amount, the Allocable Liquidated Share
of STATE Outside Counsel.
(c) On December 15, 1999, if the Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside
Counsel became a Payable Liquidated Fee on or after July 15, 1999 and before
December 1, 1999, each Original Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay
to the Designated Representative its Relative Market Share of the lesser of (i)
the Payable Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel, (ii) $5 million or (iii) in
the event that the sum of all Payable Liquidated Fees of all Outside Counsel
that became Payable Liquidated Fees on or after July 15, 1999 and before
December 1, 1999 exceeds the Applicable Liquidation Amount, the Allocable
Liquidated Share of STATE Outside Counsel.
(d) On December 15, 1999, if the Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside
Counsel became a Payable Liquidated Fee before December 1, 1999, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Designated Representative
its Relative Market Share of the lesser of (i) the Payable Liquidated Fee of
STATE Outside Counsel, or (ii) $5 million or (iii) in the event that the sum of
all Payable Liquidated Fees of all Outside Counsel that become Payable
Liquidated Fees before December 1, 1999 exceeds the Applicable Liquidation
Amount, the Allocable Liquidated Share of STATE Outside Counsel.
(e) On December 15, 1999, if the Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside
Counsel became a Payable Liquidated Fee before December 1, 1999, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Designated Representative
its Relative Market Share of the lesser of (i) the Payable Liquidated Fee of
STATE Outside Counsel or (ii) in the event that the sum of all Payable
Liquidated Fees of all Outside Counsel that became
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Payable Liquidated Fees before December 1, 1999 exceeds the Applicable
Liquidation Amount, the Allocable Liquidated Share of STATE Outside Counsel.
(f) On the last day of each calendar quarter, beginning with the first
calendar quarter of 2000 and ending with the fourth calendar quarter of 2003, if
the Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel became a Payable Liquidated Fee at
least 15 Business Days prior to the last day of each such calendar quarter, each
Original Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Designated
Representative its Relative Market Share of the lesser of (i) the Payable
Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel or (ii) in the event that the sum of all
Payable Liquidated Fees of all Outside Counsel as of the date 15 Business Days
prior to the date of the payment in question exceeds the Applicable Liquidation
Amount, the Allocable Liquidated Share of STATE Outside Counsel.
SECTION 9. LIMITATIONS ON PAYMENTS OF LIQUIDATED FEES.
Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, all payments by the Original
Participating Manufacturers with respect to Liquidated Fees shall be subject to
the following:
(a) Under no circumstances shall the Original Participating
Manufacturers be required to make any payment that would result in aggregate
national payments of Liquidated Fees:
(i) during 1999, totaling more than $250 million;
(ii) with respect to any calendar quarter beginning with the
first calendar quarter of 2000 and ending with the fourth calendar
quarter of 2003, totaling more than $62.5 million, except to the extent
that a payment with respect to any prior calendar quarter of any
calendar year did not total $62.5 million; or
(iii) with respect to any calendar quarter after the fourth
calendar quarter of 2003, totaling more than zero.
(b) The Original Participating Manufacturers' obligations with respect
to the Liquidated Fee of STATE Outside Counsel, if any, shall be exclusively as
provided in this STATE Fee Payment Agreement, and notwithstanding any other
provision of law, such Liquidated Fee shall not be entered as or reduced to a
judgment against the Original Participating Manufacturers or considered as a
basis for requiring a bond or imposing a lien or any other encumbrance.
SECTION 10. FEE AWARDS.
(a) In the event that the Original Participating Manufacturers and
STATE Outside Counsel do not agree in writing upon a Liquidated Fee as described
in section 7 hereof, the Original Participating Manufacturers shall pay,
pursuant to the terms hereof, the Fee Award awarded by the Panel to STATE
Outside Counsel.
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(b) The Original Participating Manufacturers' payment of any Fee Award
pursuant to this STATE Fee Payment Agreement shall be subject to the payment
schedule and the annual and quarterly aggregate national caps specified in
sections 17 and 18 hereof, which shall apply to:
(i) all payments of Fee Awards in connection with an
agreement to pay fees as part of the settlement of any Tobacco Case on
terms that provide for payment by the Original Participating
Manufacturers or other defendants acting in agreement with the Original
Participating Manufacturers (collectively, "Participating Defendants")
of fees with respect to any Private Counsel, subject to an annual cap on
payment of all such fees; and
(ii) all payments of attorneys' fees (other than fees for
attorneys of Participating Defendants) pursuant to Fee Awards for
activities in connection with any Tobacco Case resolved by operation of
Federal Legislation.
SECTION 11. COMPOSITION OF THE PANEL.
(a) The first and the second members of the Panel shall both be
permanent members of the Panel and, as such, will participate in the
determination of all Fee Awards. The third Panel member shall not be a
permanent Panel member, but instead shall be a state-specific member selected to
determine Fee Awards on behalf of Private Counsel retained in connection with
litigation within a single state. Accordingly, the third, state-specific member
of the Panel for purposes of determining Fee Awards with respect to litigation
in the State of STATE shall not participate in any determination as to any Fee
Award with respect to litigation in any other state (unless selected to
participate in such determinations by such persons as may be authorized to make
such selections under other agreements).
(b) The members of the Panel shall be selected as follows:
(i) The first member shall be the natural person selected by
Participating Defendants.
(ii) The second member shall be the person jointly selected by
the agreement of Participating Defendants and a majority of the
committee described in the fee payment agreements entered in connection
with the settlements of the Tobacco Cases brought by the Previously
Settled States. In the event that the person so selected is unable or
unwilling to continue to serve, a replacement for such member shall be
selected by agreement of the Original Participating Manufacturers and a
majority of the members of a committee composed of the following
members: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx, Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, one additional representative, to be selected in the sole
discretion of NAAG, and two representatives of Private Counsel in
Tobacco Cases, to be selected at the sole discretion of the Original
Participating Manufacturers.
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(iii) The third, state-specific member for purposes of
determining Fee Awards with respect to litigation in the State of STATE
shall be a natural person selected by STATE Outside Counsel, who shall
notify the Director and the Original Participating Manufacturers of the
name of the person selected.
SECTION 12. APPLICATION OF STATE OUTSIDE COUNSEL.
(a) STATE Outside Counsel shall make a collective Application for a
single Fee Award, which shall be submitted to the Director. Within five
Business Days after receipt of the Application by STATE Outside Counsel, the
Director shall serve the Application upon the Original Participating
Manufacturers and the STATE. The Original Participating Manufacturers shall
submit all materials in response to the Application to the Director by the later
of (i) 60 Business Days after service of the Application upon the Original
Participating Manufacturers by the Director, (ii) five Business Days after the
date of State-Specific Finality in the State of STATE or (iii) five Business
Days after the date on which notice of the name of the third, state-specific
panel member described in paragraph (b)(iii) of section 11 hereof has been
provided to the Director and the Original Participating Manufacturers.
(b) The Original Participating Manufacturers may submit to the Director
any materials that they wish and, notwithstanding any restrictions or
representations made in any other agreements, the Original Participating
Manufacturers shall be in no way constrained from contesting the amount of the
Fee Award requested by STATE Outside Counsel. The Director, the Panel, the
State of STATE, the Original Participating Manufacturers and STATE Outside
Counsel shall preserve the confidentiality of any attorney work-product
materials or other similar confidential information that may be submitted.
(c) The Director shall forward the Application of STATE Outside
Counsel, as well as all written materials relating to such Application that have
been submitted by the Original Participating Manufacturers pursuant to
subsection (b) of this section, to the Panel within five Business Days after the
later of (i) the expiration of the period for the Original Participating
Manufacturers to submit such materials or (ii) the earlier of (A) the date on
which the Panel issues a Fee Award with respect to any Application of other
Private Counsel previously forwarded to the Panel by the Director or (B) 30
Business Days after the forwarding to the Panel of the Application of other
Private Counsel most recently forwarded to the Panel by the Director. The
Director shall notify the Parties upon forwarding the Application (and all
written materials relating thereto) to the Panel.
(d) In the event that either Party seeks a hearing before the Panel,
such Party may submit a request to the Director in writing within five Business
Days after the forwarding of the Application of STATE Outside Counsel to the
Panel by the Director, and the Director shall promptly forward the request to
the Panel. If the Panel grants the request, it shall promptly set a date for
hearing, such date to fall within 30 Business Days after the date of the Panel's
receipt of the Application.
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The proceedings of the Panel shall be conducted subject to the terms of
this Agreement and of the Protocol of Panel Procedures attached as an Appendix
hereto.
SECTION 14. AWARD OF FEES TO STATE OUTSIDE COUNSEL.
The members of the Panel will consider all relevant information
submitted to them in reaching a decision as to a Fee Award that fairly provides
for full reasonable compensation of STATE Outside Counsel. In considering the
amount of the Fee Award, the Panel shall not consider any Liquidated Fee agreed
to by any other Outside Counsel, any offer of or negotiations relating to any
proposed liquidated fee for STATE Outside Counsel or any Fee Award that already
has been or yet may be awarded in connection with any other Tobacco Case. The
Panel's decisions as to the Fee Award of STATE Outside Counsel shall be in
writing and shall report the amount of the fee awarded (with or without
explanation or opinion, at the Panel's discretion). The Panel shall determine
the amount of the Fee Award to be paid to STATE Outside Counsel within the later
of 30 calendar days after receiving the Application (and all related materials)
from the Director or 15 Business Days after the last date of any hearing held
pursuant to subsection (d) of section 12 hereof. The Panel's decision as to the
Fee Award of STATE Outside Counsel shall be final, binding and non-appealable.
SECTION 15. COSTS OF ARBITRATION.
All costs and expenses of the arbitration proceedings held by the Panel,
including costs, expenses and compensation of the Director and of the Panel
members (but not including any costs, expenses or compensation of counsel making
applications to the Panel), shall be borne by the Original Participating
Manufacturers in proportion to their Relative Market Shares.
SECTION 16. PAYMENT OF FEE AWARD OF STATE OUTSIDE COUNSEL.
On or before the tenth Business Day after the last day of each calendar
quarter beginning with the first calendar quarter of 1999, each Original
Participating Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Designated Representative
its Relative Market Share of the Allocated Amount for STATE Outside Counsel for
the calendar quarter with respect to which such quarterly payment is being made
(the "Applicable Quarter").
SECTION 17. ALLOCATED AMOUNTS OF FEE AWARDS.
The Allocated Amount for each Private Counsel with respect to any
payment to be made for any particular Applicable Quarter shall be determined as
follows:
(a) The Quarterly Fee Amount shall be allocated equally among each of
the three months of the Applicable Quarter. The amount for each such month
shall be allocated among those Private Counsel retained in connection with
Tobacco Cases settled before or
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during such month (each such Private Counsel being an "Eligible Counsel" with
respect to such monthly amount), each of which shall be allocated a portion of
each such monthly amount up to (or, in the event that the sum of all Eligible
Counsel's respective Unpaid Fees exceeds such monthly amount, in proportion to)
the amount of such Eligible Counsel's Unpaid Fees. The monthly amount for each
month of the calendar quarter shall be allocated among those Eligible Counsel
having Unpaid Fees, without regard to whether there may be Eligible Counsel that
have not yet been granted or denied a Fee Award as of the last day of the
Applicable Quarter. The allocation of subsequent Quarterly Fee Amounts for the
calendar year, if any, shall be adjusted, as necessary, to account for any
Eligible Counsel that are granted Fee Awards in a subsequent quarter of such
calendar year, as provided in paragraph (b)(ii) of this section.
(b) In the event that the amount for a given month is less than the sum
of the Unpaid Fees of all Eligible Counsel:
(i) in the case of the first quarterly allocation for any
calendar year, such monthly amount shall be allocated among all Eligible
Counsel for such month in proportion to the amounts of their respective
Unpaid Fees.
(ii) in the case of a quarterly allocation after the first
quarterly allocation, the Quarterly Fee Amount shall be allocated among
only those Private Counsel, if any, that were Eligible Counsel with
respect to any monthly amount for any prior quarter of the calendar year
but were not allocated a proportionate share of such monthly amount
(either because such Private Counsel's applications for Fee Awards were
still under consideration as of the last day of the calendar quarter
containing the month in question or for any other reason), until each
such Eligible Counsel has been allocated a proportionate share of all
such prior monthly payments for the calendar year (each such share of
each such Eligible Counsel being a "Payable Proportionate Share"). In
the event that the sum of all Payable Proportionate Shares exceeds the
Quarterly Fee Amount, the Quarterly Fee Amount shall be allocated among
such Eligible Counsel on a monthly basis in proportion to the amounts of
their respective Unpaid Fees (without regard to whether there may be
other Eligible Counsel with respect to such prior monthly amounts that
have not yet been granted or denied a Fee Award as of the last day of
the Applicable Quarter). In the event that the sum of all Payable
Proportionate Shares is less than the Quarterly Fee Amount, the amount
by which the Quarterly Fee Amount exceeds the sum of all such Payable
Proportionate Shares shall be allocated among each month of the calendar
quarter, each such monthly amount to be allocated among those Eligible
Counsel having Unpaid Fees in proportion to the amounts of their
respective Unpaid Fees (without regard to whether there may be Eligible
Counsel that have not yet been granted or denied a Fee Award as of the
last day of the Applicable Quarter).
(c) Adjustments pursuant to subsection (b)(ii) of this section 17 shall
be made separately for each calendar year. No amounts paid in any calendar year
shall be subject
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to refund, nor shall any payment in any given calendar year affect the
allocation of payments to be made in any subsequent calendar year.
SECTION 18. CREDITS TO AND LIMITATIONS ON PAYMENT OF FEE AWARDS.
Notwithstanding any other provision hereof, all payments by the Original
Participating Manufacturers with respect to Fee Awards shall be subject to the
following:
(a) Under no circumstances shall the Original Participating
Manufacturers be required to make payments that would result in aggregate
national payments and credits by Participating Defendants with respect to all
Fee Awards of Private Counsel:
(i) during any year beginning with 1999, totaling more than
the sum of the Quarterly Fee Amounts for each calendar quarter of the
calendar year, excluding certain payments with respect to any Private
Counsel for 1998 that are paid in 1999; and
(ii) during any calendar quarter beginning with the first
calendar quarter of 1999, totaling more than the Quarterly Fee Amount
for such quarter, excluding certain payments with respect to any Private
Counsel for 1998 that are paid in 1999.
(b) The Original Participating Manufacturers' obligations with respect
to the Fee Award of STATE Outside Counsel, if any, shall be exclusively as
provided in this STATE Fee Payment Agreement, and notwithstanding any other
provision of law, such Fee Award shall not be entered as or reduced to a
judgment against the Original Participating Manufacturers or considered as a
basis for requiring a bond or imposing a lien or any other encumbrance.
SECTION 19. REIMBURSEMENT OF OUTSIDE COUNSEL'S COSTS.
(a) The Original Participating Manufacturers shall reimburse STATE
Outside Counsel for reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with
the Action, provided that such costs and expenses are of the same nature as
costs and expenses for which the Original Participating Manufacturers ordinarily
reimburse their own counsel or agents. Payment of any Approved Cost Statement
pursuant to this STATE Fee Payment Agreement shall be subject to (i) the
condition precedent of approval of the Agreement by the Court for the State of
STATE and (ii) the payment schedule and the aggregate national caps specified in
subsection (c) of this section, which shall apply to all payments made with
respect to Cost Statements of all Outside Counsel.
(b) In the event that STATE Outside Counsel seek to be reimbursed for
reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Action, the
Designated Representative shall submit a Cost Statement to the Original
Participating Manufacturers. Within 30 Business Days after receipt of any such
Cost Statement, the Original Participating Manufacturers shall either accept the
Cost Statement or dispute the Cost
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Statement, in which event the Cost Statement shall be subject to a full audit by
examiners to be appointed by the Original Participating Manufacturers (in their
sole discretion). Any such audit will be completed within 120 Business Days
after the date the Cost Statement is received by the Original Participating
Manufacturers. Upon completion of such audit, if the Original Participating
Manufacturers and STATE Outside Counsel cannot agree as to the appropriate
amount of STATE Outside Counsel's reasonable costs and expenses, the Cost
Statement and the examiner's audit report shall be submitted to the Director for
arbitration before the Panel or, in the event that STATE Outside Counsel and the
Original Participating Manufacturers have agreed upon a Liquidated Fee pursuant
to section 7 hereof, before a separate three-member panel of independent
arbitrators, to be selected in a manner to be agreed to by STATE Outside Counsel
and the Original Participating Manufacturers, which shall determine the amount
of STATE Outside Counsel's reasonable costs and expenses for the Action. In
determining such reasonable costs and expenses, the members of the arbitration
panel shall be governed by the Protocol of Panel Procedures attached as an
Appendix hereto. The amount of STATE Outside Counsel's reasonable costs and
expenses determined pursuant to arbitration as provided in the preceding
sentence shall be final, binding and non-appealable.
(c) Any Approved Cost Statement of STATE Outside Counsel shall not
become a Payable Cost Statement until approval of the Agreement by the Court for
the State of STATE. Within five Business Days after receipt of notification
thereof by the Designated Representative, each Original Participating
Manufacturer shall severally pay to the Designated Representative its Relative
Market Share of the Payable Cost Statement of STATE Outside Counsel, subject to
the following -
(i) All Payable Cost Statements of Outside Counsel shall be
paid in the order in which such Payable Cost Statements became Payable
Cost Statements.
(ii) Under no circumstances shall the Original Participating
Manufacturers be required to make payments that would result in
aggregate national payments by Participating Defendants of all Payable
Cost Statements of Private Counsel in connection with all of the actions
identified in Exhibits D, M and N to the Agreement, totaling more than
$75 million for any given year.
(iii) Any Payable Cost Statement of Outside Counsel not paid
during the year in which it became a Payable Cost Statement as a result
of paragraph (ii) of this subsection shall become payable in subsequent
years, subject to paragraphs (i) and (ii), until paid in full.
(d) The Original Participating Manufacturers' obligations with respect
to reasonable costs and expenses incurred by STATE Outside Counsel in connection
with the Action shall be exclusively as provided in this STATE Fee Payment
Agreement, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, any Approved Cost
Statement determined pursuant to subsection (b) of this section (including any
Approved Cost Statement
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determined pursuant to arbitration before the Panel or the separate three-member
panel of independent arbitrators described therein) shall not be entered as or
reduced to a judgment against the Original Participating Manufacturers or
considered as a basis for requiring a bond or imposing a lien or any other
incumbrance.
SECTION 20. RECOVERY OF PAYMENTS BY STATE OF STATE.
(a) In the event that the State of STATE pays attorneys' fees in
connection with the Action to STATE Outside Counsel and STATE Outside Counsel
have not agreed with the Original Participating Manufacturers on the amount of a
Liquidated Fee, have not submitted an Application for a Fee Award to the
Director, and have not submitted a Cost Statement to the Original Participating
Manufacturers, the State of STATE may seek to be paid either a Liquidated Fee or
a Fee Award, as well as a Cost Statement, in the place of STATE Outside Counsel,
in the same manner as and subject to the same conditions applicable to the
payment of a Liquidated Fee, Fee Award or Cost Statement of STATE Outside
Counsel.
[METHODOLOGY TO BE DETERMINED]
SECTION 21. DISTRIBUTION OF PAYMENTS AMONG STATE OUTSIDE COUNSEL.
(a) All payments made to the Designated Representative pursuant to this
STATE Fee Payment Agreement shall be for the benefit of each person or entity
identified in Exhibit S to the Agreement by the Attorney General of the State of
STATE [or as certified by the governmental prosecuting authority of the
Litigating Political Subdivision], each of which shall receive from the
Designated Representative a percentage of each such payment in accordance with
the fee sharing agreement, if any, among STATE Outside Counsel (or any written
amendment thereto).
(b) The Original Participating Manufacturers shall have no obligation,
responsibility or liability with respect to the allocation among those persons
or entities identified in Exhibit S to the Agreement by the Attorney General of
the State of STATE [or as certified by the governmental prosecuting authority of
the Litigating Political Subdivision], or with respect to any claim of
misallocation, of any amounts paid to the Designated Representative pursuant to
this STATE Fee Payment Agreement.
SECTION 22. CALCULATIONS OF AMOUNTS.
All calculations that may be required hereunder shall be performed by
the Original Participating Manufacturers, with notice of the results thereof to
be given promptly to the Designated Representative. Any disputes as to the
correctness of calculations made by the Original Participating Manufacturers
shall be resolved pursuant to the procedures described in Section XI(c) of the
Agreement for resolving disputes as to calculations by the Independent Auditor.
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XXXXXXX 00. PAYMENT RESPONSIBILITY.
(a) Each Original Participating Manufacturer shall be severally liable
for its share of all payments pursuant to this STATE Fee Payment Agreement.
Under no circumstances shall any payment due hereunder or any portion thereof
become the joint obligation of the Original Participating Manufacturers or the
obligation of any person other than the Original Participating Manufacturer from
which such payment is originally due, nor shall any Original Participating
Manufacturer be required to pay a portion of any such payment greater than its
Relative Market Share.
(b) Due to the particular corporate structures of X. X. Xxxxxxxx
Tobacco Company ("Xxxxxxxx") and Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Tobacco Corporation ("Xxxxx
& Xxxxxxxxxx") with respect to their non-domestic tobacco operations, Xxxxxxxx
and Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx shall each be severally liable for its respective share
of each payment due pursuant to this STATE Fee Payment Agreement up to (and its
liability hereunder shall not exceed) the full extent of its assets used in, and
earnings and revenues derived from, its manufacture and sale in the United
States of Tobacco Products intended for domestic consumption, and no recourse
shall be had against any of its other assets or earnings to satisfy such
obligations.
SECTION 24. TERMINATION.
In the event that the Agreement is terminated with respect to the State
of STATE pursuant to Section XVIII(u) of the Agreement (or for any other reason)
the Designated Representative and each person or entity identified in Exhibit S
to the Agreement by the Attorney General of the State of STATE [or as certified
by the governmental prosecuting authority of the Litigating Political
Subdivision] shall immediately refund to the Original Participating
Manufacturers all amounts received under this STATE Fee Payment Agreement.
SECTION 25. INTENDED BENEFICIARIES.
No provision hereof creates any rights on the part of, or is enforceable
by, any person or entity that is not a Party or a person covered by either of
the releases described in section 4 hereof, except that sections 5 and 20 hereof
create rights on the part of, and shall be enforceable by, the State of STATE.
Nor shall any provision hereof bind any non-signatory or determine, limit or
prejudice the rights of any such person or entity.
SECTION 26. REPRESENTATIONS OF PARTIES.
The Parties hereto hereby represent that this STATE Fee Payment
Agreement has been duly authorized and, upon execution, will constitute a valid
and binding contractual obligation, enforceable in accordance with its terms, of
each of the Parties hereto.
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XXXXXXX 00. NO ADMISSION.
This STATE Fee Payment Agreement is not intended to be and shall not in
any event be construed as, or deemed to be, an admission or concession or
evidence of any liability or wrongdoing whatsoever on the part of any signatory
hereto or any person covered by either of the releases provided under section 4
hereof. The Original Participating Manufacturers specifically disclaim and deny
any liability or wrongdoing whatsoever with respect to the claims released under
section 4 hereof and enter into this STATE Fee Payment Agreement for the sole
purposes of memorializing the Original Participating Manufacturers' rights and
obligations with respect to payment of attorneys' fees pursuant to the Agreement
and avoiding the further expense, inconvenience, burden and uncertainty of
potential litigation.
SECTION 28. NON-ADMISSIBILITY.
This STATE Fee Payment Agreement having been undertaken by the Parties
hereto in good faith and for settlement purposes only, neither this STATE Fee
Payment Agreement nor any evidence of negotiations relating hereto shall be
offered or received in evidence in any action or proceeding other than an action
or proceeding arising under this STATE Fee Payment Agreement.
SECTION 29. AMENDMENT AND WAIVER.
This STATE Fee Payment Agreement may be amended only by a written
instrument executed by the Parties. The waiver of any rights conferred
hereunder shall be effective only if made by written instrument executed by the
waiving Party. The waiver by any Party of any breach hereof shall not be deemed
to be or construed as a waiver of any other breach, whether prior, subsequent or
contemporaneous, of this STATE Fee Payment Agreement.
SECTION 30. NOTICES.
All notices or other communications to any party hereto shall be in
writing (including but not limited to telex, facsimile or similar writing) and
shall be given to the notice parties listed on Schedule A hereto at the
addresses therein indicated. Any Party hereto may change the name and address
of the person designated to receive notice on behalf of such Party by notice
given as provided in this section including an updated list conformed to
Schedule A hereto.
SECTION 31. GOVERNING LAW.
This STATE Fee Payment Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the
State of STATE without regard to the conflict of law rules of such State.
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SECTION 32. CONSTRUCTION.
None of the Parties hereto shall be considered to be the drafter hereof
or of any provision hereof for the purpose of any statute, case law or rule of
interpretation or construction that would or might cause any provision to be
construed against the drafter hereof.
SECTION 33. CAPTIONS.
The captions of the sections hereof are included for convenience of
reference only and shall be ignored in the construction and interpretation
hereof.
SECTION 34. EXECUTION OF STATE FEE PAYMENT AGREEMENT.
This STATE Fee Payment Agreement may be executed in counterparts.
Facsimile or photocopied signatures shall be considered valid signatures as of
the date hereof, although the original signature pages shall thereafter be
appended to this STATE Fee Payment Agreement.
SECTION 35. ENTIRE AGREEMENT OF PARTIES.
This STATE Fee Payment Agreement contains an entire, complete and
integrated statement of each and every term and provision agreed to by and among
the Parties with respect to payment of attorneys' fees by the Original
Participating Manufacturers in connection with the Action and is not subject to
any condition or covenant, express or implied, not provided for herein.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto, through their fully authorized
representatives, have agreed to this STATE Fee Payment Agreement as of this __th
day of ________, 1998.
[SIGNATURE BLOCK]
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APPENDIX
to MODEL FEE PAYMENT AGREEMENT
PROTOCOL OF PANEL PROCEEDINGS
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This Protocol of procedures has been agreed to between the respective
parties to the STATE Fee Payment Agreement, and shall govern the arbitration
proceedings provided for therein.
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.
All definitions contained in the STATE Fee Payment Agreement are
incorporated by reference herein.
SECTION 2. CHAIRMAN.
The person selected to serve as the permanent, neutral member of the
Panel as described in paragraph (b)(ii) of section 11 of the STATE Fee Payment
Agreement shall serve as the Chairman of the Panel.
SECTION 3. ARBITRATION PURSUANT TO AGREEMENT.
The members of the Panel shall determine those matters committed to the
decision of the Panel under the STATE Fee Payment Agreement, which shall govern
as to all matters discussed therein.
SECTION 4. ABA CODE OF ETHICS.
Each of the members of the Panel shall be governed by the CODE OF ETHICS
FOR ARBITRATORS IN COMMERCIAL DISPUTES prepared by the American Arbitration
Association and the American Bar Association (the "CODE OF ETHICS") in
conducting the arbitration proceedings pursuant to the STATE Fee Payment
Agreement, subject to the terms of the STATE Fee Payment Agreement and this
Protocol. Each of the party-appointed members of the Panel shall be governed by
Canon VII of the CODE OF ETHICS. No person may engage in any EX PARTE
communications with the permanent, neutral member of the Panel selected pursuant
to paragraph (b)(ii) of section 11, in keeping with Canons I, II and III of the
CODE OF ETHICS.
SECTION 5. ADDITIONAL RULES AND PROCEDURES.
The Panel may adopt such rules and procedures as it deems necessary and
appropriate for the discharge of its duties under the STATE Fee Payment
Agreement and this Protocol, subject to the terms of the STATE Fee Payment
Agreement and this Protocol.
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SECTION 6. MAJORITY RULE.
In the event that the members of the Panel are not unanimous in their
views as to any matter to be determined by them pursuant to the STATE Fee
Payment Agreement or this Protocol, the determination shall be decided by a vote
of a majority of the three members of the Panel.
SECTION 7. APPLICATION FOR FEE AWARD AND OTHER MATERIALS.
(a) The Application of STATE Outside Counsel and any materials
submitted to the Director relating thereto (collectively, "submissions") shall
be forwarded by the Director to each of the members of the Panel in the manner
and on the dates specified in the STATE Fee Payment Agreement.
(b) All materials submitted to the Director by either Party (or any
other person) shall be served upon all Parties. All submissions required to be
served on any Party shall be deemed to have been served as of the date on which
such materials have been sent by either (i) hand delivery or (ii) facsimile and
overnight courier for priority next-day delivery.
(c) To the extent that the Panel believes that information not
submitted to the Panel may be relevant for purposes of determining those matters
committed to the decision of the Panel under the terms of the STATE Fee Payment
Agreement, the Panel shall request such information from the Parties.
SECTION 8. HEARING.
Any hearing held pursuant to section 12 of the STATE Fee Payment
Agreement shall not take place other than in the presence of all three members
of the Panel upon notice and an opportunity for the respective representatives
of the Parties to attend.
SECTION 9. MISCELLANEOUS.
(a) Each member of the Panel shall be compensated for his services by
the Original Participating Manufacturers on a basis to be agreed to between such
member and the Original Participating Manufacturers.
(b) The members of the Panel shall refer all media inquiries
regarding the arbitration proceeding to the respective Parties to the STATE Fee
Payment Agreement and shall refrain from any comment as to the arbitration
proceedings to be conducted pursuant to the STATE Fee Payment Agreement during
the pendency of such arbitration proceedings, in keeping with Canon IV(B) of the
CODE OF ETHICS.
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EXHIBIT P
NOTICES
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NAAG Executive Director PHO: (202) 326-6053
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X. FAX: (000) 000-0000
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
ESCROW AGENT
[to come]
ALABAMA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Alabama FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
State House
00 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
ALASKA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Alaska FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx 000000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
AMERICAN SAMOA Honorable Toetagata Xxxxxx Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of American Samoa FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Post Office Box 7
Pago Pago, AS 96799
ARIZONA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx PHO: (602) 542-4266
Attorney General of Arizona FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
ARKANSAS Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Arkansas FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
X-0
XXXXXXXXXX Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx XXX: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of California FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
0000 X Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
COLORADO Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx X. Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Colorado FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Department of Law
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
CONNECTICUT Honorable Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Connecticut FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
00 Xxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
DELAWARE Honorable M. Xxxx Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Delaware FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Carvel Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx X. Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
District of Columbia FAX: (000) 000-0000
Corporation Counsel
Office of the Corporation Counsel
000 0xx Xxxxxx XX
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
GEORGIA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Georgia FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
GUAM Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Acting Attorney General of Guam FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Judicial Center Building
000 Xxxx X'Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx, XX 00000
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HAWAII Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx PHO: (808) 586-1282
Attorney General of Hawaii FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
IDAHO Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx X. Xxxxx XXX: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Idaho FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx X.X. Xxx 00000
Xxxxx, XX 83720-0010
ILLINOIS Honorable Xxx Xxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Illinois FAX: (000)000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx Center
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
INDIANA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Indiana FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Indiana Government Center South
Fifth Floor
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
IOWA Honorable Xxx Xxxxxx PHO: (515) 281-3053
Attorney General of Iowa FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxx Xxxxxx, XX 00000
KANSAS Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Kansas FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Judicial Building
000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
KENTUCKY Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
"Ben" Xxxxxxxx III FAX: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Kentucky
Office of the Attorney General
State Capitol, Room 116
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
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LOUISIANA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Louisiana FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Department of Justice
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx 00000
Xxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000-0000
MAINE Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Maine FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
MARYLAND Honorable J. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xx. PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Maryland FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
MASSACHUSETTS Honorable Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Massachusetts FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
MICHIGAN Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Michigan FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Post Office Box 30212
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
MISSOURI Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx X. (Xxx) Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Missouri FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Supreme Court Building
000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
MONTANA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Montana FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Justice Building, 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
P-4
NEBRASKA Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Nebraska FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx 00000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
NEVADA Honorable Xxxxxxx Xxx Del Papa PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Nevada FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Old Supreme Court Building
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
NEW HAMPSHIRE Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx X. XxXxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of New Hampshire FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx, 00 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
NEW JERSEY Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of New Jersey FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx Justice Complex
00 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX 080
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
NEW MEXICO Honorable Xxx Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of New Mexico FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx 0000
Xxxxx Xx, XX 00000-0000
NEW YORK Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of New York FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Department of Law - The Capitol
2nd Floor
Albany, NY 12224
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NORTH CAROLINA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of North Carolina FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Department of Justice
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx 000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
NORTH DAKOTA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of North Dakota FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
State Capitol
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
N. MARIANA ISLANDS Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx (Acting) PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of the FAX: (000) 000-0000
Northern Mariana Islands
Office of the Attorney General
Administration Building
Saipan, MP 96950
OHIO Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Ohio FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
State Office Tower
00 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
OKLAHOMA Honorable W.A. Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Oklahoma FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
State Capitol, Room 112
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxx, XX 00000
OREGON Honorable Xxxxx Xxxxx PHO: (503) 378-6002
Attorney General of Oregon FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Justice Building
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx XX
Xxxxx, XX 00000
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PENNSYLVANIA Honorable Xxxx Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Pennsylvania FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Strawberry Square
Harrisburg, PA 17120
PUERTO RICO Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx-Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Puerto Rico FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx 000
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
RHODE ISLAND Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Rhode Island FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
SOUTH CAROLINA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of South Carolina FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx 00000
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
SOUTH DAKOTA Honorable Xxxx Xxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of South Dakota FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
TENNESSEE Honorable Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Tennessee FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
UTAH Xxxxxxxxx Xxx Xxxxxx PHO: (801) 538-1326
Attorney General of Utah FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
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VERMONT Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Vermont FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
VIRGINIA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx X. Xxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Virginia FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
000 Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
VIRGIN ISLANDS Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx X. Xxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of FAX: (000) 000-0000
the Virgin Islands
Office of the Attorney General
Department of Justice
X.X.X.X. Xxxxxxx
00X-00X Xxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xx. Xxxxxx, XX 00000
WASHINGTON Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Washington FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
P.O. Box 40100
0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
WITH A COPY TO:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Xxxx X. XxXxxxxxx, Xx.
Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxxx
151 Meeting Street, Suite 000
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
WEST VIRGINIA Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. XxXxxx Xx. PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of West Virginia FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
State Capitol
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
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XXXXXXXXX Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx X. Xxxxx XXX: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Wisconsin FAX: (000) 000-0000
Office of the Attorney General
State Capitol
Post Xxxxxx Xxx 0000
Xxxxx 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000
WYOMING Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx PHO: (000) 000-0000
Attorney General of Wyoming FAX: (000) 000-0000
Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
FOR XXXXXX XXXXXX INCORPORATED:
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Incorporated
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
WITH A COPY TO:
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Wachtell, Lipton, Xxxxx & Xxxx
00 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
FOR X.X. XXXXXXXX TOBACCO COMPANY:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
General Counsel
X.X. Xxxxxxxx Tobacco Company
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx-Xxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
WITH A COPY TO:
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Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
FOR XXXXX & XXXXXXXXXX TOBACCO CORPORATION:
F. Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Tobacco Corporation
200 Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx Tower
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
WITH A COPY TO:
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx & Xxxxx
000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xx.
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
FOR LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Lorillard Tobacco Company
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Phone: 000-000-0000
Fax: 000-000-0000
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EXHIBIT Q
1997 DATA
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[INFORMATION TO BE SUPPLIED AND VERIFIED]
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EXHIBIT R
EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN BRAND NAMES
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[INFORMATION TO BE SUPPLIED AND VERIFIED]
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EXHIBIT S
DESIGNATION OF OUTSIDE COUNSEL
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The following sets forth those private counsel that were retained by and
represented each of the Settling States and Litigating Political Subdivisions in
the actions indicated on Exhibits D, M and N brought by or against each such
Settling State or Litigating Political Subdivision.
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EXHIBIT T
MODEL STATUTE
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SECTION __. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.(1)
(a) Cigarette smoking presents serious public health concerns to the
State and to the citizens of the State. The Surgeon General has determined that
smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and other serious diseases, and that
there are hundreds of thousands of tobacco-related deaths in the United States
each year. These diseases most often do not appear until many years after the
person in question begins smoking.
(b) Cigarette smoking also presents serious financial concerns for
the State. Under certain health-care programs, the State may have a legal
obligation to provide medical assistance to eligible persons for health
conditions associated with cigarette smoking, and those persons may have a legal
entitlement to receive such medical assistance.
(c) Under these programs, the State pays millions of dollars each
year to provide medical assistance for these persons for health conditions
associated with cigarette smoking.
(d) It is the policy of the State that financial burdens imposed on
the State by cigarette smoking be borne by tobacco product manufacturers rather
than by the State to the extent that such manufacturers either determine to
enter into a settlement with the State or are found culpable by the courts.
(e) On _______, 1998, leading United States tobacco product
manufacturers entered into a settlement agreement, entitled the "Master
Settlement Agreement," with the State. The Master Settlement Agreement
obligates these manufacturers, in return for a release of past, present and
certain future claims against them as described therein, to pay substantial sums
to the State (tied in part to their volume of sales); to fund a national
foundation devoted to the interests of public health; and to make substantial
changes in their advertising and marketing practices and corporate culture, with
the intention of reducing underage smoking.
(f) It would be contrary to the policy of the State if tobacco
product manufacturers who determine not to enter into such a settlement could
use a resulting cost advantage to derive large, short-term profits in the years
before liability may arise without ensuring that the State will have an eventual
source of recovery from them if they are proven to have acted culpably. It is
thus in the interest of the State to require that such
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(1) [A State may elect to deletem the "Findings and purposes" sections in
its entirety. Other changes or substitutions with respect to the "findings and
purposes" section (except for particularized state procedural or technical
requirements) will mean that the statute will no longer conform to this model.]
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manufacturers establish a reserve fund to guarantee a source of compensation and
to prevent such manufacturers from deriving large, short-term profits and then
becoming judgment-proof before liability may arise.
SECTION __. DEFINITIONS.
(a) "Adjusted for inflation" means increased in accordance with the
formula for inflation adjustment set forth in Exhibit C to the Master Settlement
Agreement.
(b) "Affiliate" means a person who directly or indirectly owns or
controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control
with, another person. Solely for purposes of this definition, the terms "owns,"
"is owned" and "ownership" mean ownership of an equity interest, or the
equivalent thereof, of ten percent or more, and the term "person" means an
individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation or any other
organization or group of persons.
(c) "Allocable share" means Allocable Share as that term is defined
in the Master Settlement Agreement.
(d) "Cigarette" means any product that contains nicotine, is
intended to be burned or heated under ordinary conditions of use, and consists
of or contains (1) any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper or in any substance not
containing tobacco; or (2) tobacco, in any form, that is functional in the
product, which, because of its appearance, the type of tobacco used in the
filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased
by, consumers as a cigarette; or (3) any roll of tobacco wrapped in any
substance containing tobacco which, because of its appearance, the type of
tobacco used in the filler, or its packaging and labeling, is likely to be
offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a cigarette described in clause (1) of
this definition. The term "cigarette" includes "roll-your-own" (i.e., any
tobacco which, because of its appearance, type, packaging, or labeling is
suitable for use and likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as
tobacco for making cigarettes). For purposes of this definition of "cigarette,"
0.09 ounces of "roll-your-own" tobacco shall constitute one individual
"cigarette."
(e) "Master Settlement Agreement" means the settlement agreement (and
related documents) entered into on _______, 1998 by the State and leading United
States tobacco product manufacturers.
(f) "Qualified escrow fund" means an escrow arrangement with a
federally or State chartered financial institution having no affiliation with
any tobacco product manufacturer and having assets of at least $1,000,000,000
where such arrangement requires that such financial institution hold the
escrowed funds' principal for the benefit of releasing parties and prohibits the
tobacco product manufacturer placing the funds into escrow from using, accessing
or directing the use of the funds' principal except as consistent with section
___(b)-(c) of this Act.
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(g) "Released claims" means Released Claims as that term is defined
in the Master Settlement Agreement.
(h) "Releasing parties" means Releasing Parties as that term is
defined in the Master Settlement Agreement.
(i) "Tobacco Product Manufacturer" means an entity that after the
date of enactment of this Act directly (and not exclusively through any
affiliate):
(1) manufactures cigarettes anywhere that such manufacturer
intends to be sold in the United States, including cigarettes intended
to be sold in the United States through an importer (except where such
importer is an original participating manufacturer (as that term is
defined in the Master Settlement Agreement) that will be responsible for
the payments under the Master Settlement Agreement with respect to such
cigarettes as a result of the provisions of subsections II(mm) of the
Master Settlement Agreement and that pays the taxes specified in
subsection II(z) of the Master Settlement Agreement, and provided that
the manufacturer of such cigarettes does not market or advertise such
cigarettes in the United States);
(2) is the first purchaser anywhere for resale in the United
States of cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the manufacturer does
not intend to be sold in the United States; or
(3) becomes a successor of an entity described in paragraph
(1) or (2).
The term "Tobacco Product Manufacturer" shall not include an affiliate
of a tobacco product manufacturer unless such affiliate itself falls within any
of (1) - (3) above.
(j) "Units sold" means the number of individual cigarettes sold in
the State by the applicable tobacco product manufacturer (whether directly or
through a distributor, retailer or similar intermediary or intermediaries)
during the year in question, as measured by excise taxes collected by the State
on packs (or "roll-your-own" tobacco containers) bearing the excise tax stamp of
the State. The [fill in name of responsible state agency] shall promulgate such
regulations as are necessary to ascertain the amount of State excise tax paid on
the cigarettes of such tobacco product manufacturer for each year.
SECTION __. REQUIREMENTS.
Any tobacco product manufacturer selling cigarettes to consumers within
the State (whether directly or through a distributor, retailer or similar
intermediary or intermediaries) after the date of enactment of this Act shall do
one of the following:
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(a) become a participating manufacturer (as that term is defined in
section II(jj) of the Master Settlement Agreement) and generally perform its
financial obligations under the Master Settlement Agreement; or
(b) (1) place into a qualified escrow fund by April 15 of
the year following the year in question the following amounts (as such
amounts are adjusted for inflation) --
1999: $.0094241 per unit sold after the date of
enactment of this Act;(2)
2000: $.0104712 per unit sold after the date of
enactment of this Act;(3)
for each of 2001 and 2002: $.0136125 per unit sold after
the date of enactment of this Act;
for each of 2003 through 2006: $.0167539 per unit sold
after the date of enactment of this Act;
for each of 2007 and each year thereafter: $.0188482 per
unit sold after the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) A tobacco product manufacturer that places funds into
escrow pursuant to paragraph (1) shall receive the interest or other
appreciation on such funds as earned. Such funds themselves shall be
released from escrow only under the following circumstances --
(A) to pay a judgment or settlement on any released
claim brought against such tobacco product manufacturer by the
State or any releasing party located or residing in the State.
Funds shall be released from escrow under this subparagraph (i)
in the order in which they were placed into escrow and (ii) only
to the extent and at the time necessary to make payments required
under such judgment or settlement;
(B) to the extent that a tobacco product manufacturer
establishes that the amount it was required to place into escrow
in a particular year was greater than the State's allocable share
of the total payments that such manufacturer would have been
required to make in that year under the Master Settlement
Agreement (as determined pursuant to section IX(i)(2) of the
Master Settlement Agreement, and before any of the adjustments or
offsets described in section IX(i)(3) of that Agreement other
than the Inflation Adjustment) had it been a participating
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(2) [All per unit numbers are subject to verification]
(3) [The phrase "after the date of enactment of this Act" would need to be
included only in the calendar year in which the Act is enacted.]
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manufacturer, the excess shall be released from escrow and revert
back to such tobacco product manufacturer; or
(C) to the extent not released from escrow under
subparagraphs (A) or (B), funds shall be released from escrow and
revert back to such tobacco product manufacturer twenty-five
years after the date on which they were placed into escrow.
(3) Each tobacco product manufacturer that elects to place
funds into escrow pursuant to this subsection shall annually certify to
the Attorney General [or other State official] that it is in compliance
with this subsection. The Attorney General [or other State official]
may bring a civil action on behalf of the State against any tobacco
product manufacturer that fails to place into escrow the funds required
under this section. Any tobacco product manufacturer that fails in any
year to place into escrow the funds required under this section shall --
(A) be required within 15 days to place such funds
into escrow as shall bring it into compliance with this section.
The court, upon a finding of a violation of this subsection, may
impose a civil penalty [to be paid to the general fund of the
state] in an amount not to exceed 5 percent of the amount
improperly withheld from escrow per day of the violation and in a
total amount not to exceed 100 percent of the original amount
improperly withheld from escrow;
(B) in the case of a knowing violation, be required
within 15 days to place such funds into escrow as shall bring it
into compliance with this section. The court, upon a finding of
a knowing violation of this subsection, may impose a civil
penalty [to be paid to the general fund of the state] in an
amount not to exceed 15 percent of the amount improperly withheld
from escrow per day of the violation and in a total amount not to
exceed 300 percent of the original amount improperly withheld
from escrow; and
(C) in the case of a second knowing violation, be
prohibited from selling cigarettes to consumers within the State
(whether directly or through a distributor, retailer or similar
intermediary) for a period not to exceed 2 years.
Each failure to make an annual deposit required under this
section shall constitute a separate violation.(4)
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(4) [A State may elect to include a requirement that the violater also pay
the State's costs and attorney's fees incurred during a successful prosecution
under this paragraph (3).]
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EXHIBIT U
STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTION FUND PROTOCOL
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The payments made by the Participating Manufacturers pursuant to section
IX(c)(2) of the Agreement ("Strategic Contribution Fund") shall be allocated
among the Settling States pursuant to the process set forth in this Exhibit U.
SECTION 1
A panel committee of three former Attorneys General or former Article
III judges ("Allocation Committee") shall be established to determine
allocations of the Strategic Contribution Fund, using the process described
herein. Two of the three members of the Allocation Committee shall be selected
by the NAAG executive committee. Those two members shall choose the third
Allocation Committee member. The Allocation Committee shall be geographically
and politically diverse.
SECTION 2
Within 60 days after the MSA Execution Date, each Settling State will
submit an itemized request for funds from the Strategic Contribution Fund, based
on the criteria set forth in Section 4 of this Exhibit U.
SECTION 3
The Allocation Committee will determine the appropriate allocation for
each Settling State based on the criteria set forth in Section 4 below. The
Allocation Committee shall make its determination based upon written
documentation.
SECTION 4
The criteria to be considered by the Allocation Committee in its
allocation decision include each Settling State's contribution to the litigation
or resolution of state tobacco litigation, including, but not limited to,
litigation and/or settlement with tobacco product manufacturers, including
Xxxxxxx and Xxxxx and its affiliated entities.
SECTION 5
Within 45 days after receiving the itemized requests for funds from the
Settling States, the Allocation Committee will prepare a preliminary decision
allocating the Strategic Contribution Fund payments among the Settling States
who submitted itemized requests for funds. All Allocation Committee decisions
must be by majority vote. Each Settling State will have 30 days to submit
comments on or objections to the draft decision. The Allocation Committee will
issue a final decision allocating the Strategic Contribution Fund payments
within 45 days.
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SECTION 6
The decision of the Allocation Committee shall be final and
non-appealable.
SECTION 7
The expenses of the Allocation Committee, in an amount not to exceed
$100,000, will be paid from disbursements from the Subsection VIII(c) Account.
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