ATLANTA -- A federal appeals court has sided with the nation's largest tobacco companies in a price-fixing lawsuit brought by tobacco wholesalers. The wholesalers wanted to file a class-action lawsuit alleging a conspiracy to fix wholesale tobacco prices by Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Last summer, a U.S. District Court judge threw out the wholesalers' lawsuit, saying they had no proof that the big tobacco companies were working together. The wholesalers appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which ruled against them Monday.
Posted by Editor at September 23, 2003 11:00 AM