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Company: Lorillard Tobacco Co.
Current Parent Company: British American Tobacco
Penalty: $69,600,000
Year: 2003
Date: October 1, 2003
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Mega-Scandal: Price Fixing
Violation Description: Philip Morris, Lorillard Tobacco and Brown & Williamson Tobacco together agreed to pay over $208 million to settle litigation alleging they were part of a conspiracy to depress the prices paid to tobacco growers. Court documents did not specify how much each company would pay. Here we assume they each paid one-third of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Middle District of North Carolina
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:00cv1235
Case Name: DeLoach, et al v. Philip Morris Co., et al
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: tobacco
Specific Industry of Current Parent: tobacco
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