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Eric Rasmussen & Joe Augustine Created: December 10, 2020 08:29 PM
When Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison decided to sue a giant e-cigarette manufacturer last year, he called it his duty to take on the legal fight. On Thursday, he expanded the lawsuit against JUUL Labs, Inc. by adding tobacco company Altria to the list of defendants in the case. Altria bought a 35% stake in JUUL in 2018.
Except, Ellison and his staff are not actually leading the court battle against those companies which are accused of deceptively advertising addictive products to youth.
Instead, the attorney general picked two Minneapolis-based law firms to handle a case that could potentially lead to millions of dollars in legal fees if the state wins or settles out of court.