Source: Richard Craver, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 1/30/19


Texas has become the second state to enter a dispute over payments from a tobacco settlement with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and ITG Brands LLC. Ken Paxton, Texas’ attorney general, said Tuesday that he has asked a federal court to enforce terms of the Texas agreement that would require either Reynolds or ITG to make more than $125 million in payments.

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