Winnebago Tribe: Nebraska Colluding With Big Tobacco To Regulate Cigarette Sales

(April 27, 2018, 7:21 AM EDT) -- OMAHA, Neb. — In settling claims by the tobacco industry that it had not diligently enforced its escrow statute, the state of Nebraska accepted terms that “violate principles of federal Indian law, invade tribal sovereignty, discriminate against tribes, and illegally force tribes to comply with” the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), two plaintiffs assert in an April 20 complaint filed in Nebraska federal court (HCI Distribution Inc., et al., v. Douglas Peterson, et al., No. 18, D. Neb.)....

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