Mealey's (August 15, 2018, 9:48 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The same day it upheld a Washington federal judge’s determination that a tribal tobacco manufacturer owes the federal government $57.2 million in unpaid excise taxes, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 13 issued an unpublished ruling, which also affirmed a ruling by the same judge in a separate case that the government is owed $6.3 million for violations of a 2004 law known as the tobacco buyout (United States v. King Mountain Tobacco Company Inc., No. 16-35956, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22400)....