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Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) Collections

Internal tobacco industry documents comprise the bulk of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. The documents were made available through litigation brought by the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) that resulted in the Master Settlement Agreement (1998). For more information on the Master Settlement Agreement, please access the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives Litigation

section which contains a NAAG authored summary entitled the Multistate Settlement with the Tobacco Industry.

As a result of the MSA, the following collections will continue to be updated as documents become available through the industry web sites:

American Tobacco Company

Brown & Williamson

Council for Tobacco Research (CTR)

Lorillard

Philip Morris

RJ Reynolds

Tobacco Institute

Multimedia Collection

The Multimedia Collection includes information about more than 7,000 tobacco industry video and audio tapes related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products as well as materials gathered and produced by tobacco control advocates.

Many of the acquired videos are available for immediate viewing at the Internet Archive. For more information, please access the Multimedia Collection page.

The Multimedia Collection was added in June 2006 and will be continuously updated as more resources become available.

Tobacco DATTA: Depositions and Trial Testimony Archive

Tobacco Depositions and Trial Testimony Archive (Tobacco DATTA) contains transcripts from tobacco-related litigation, collected from a variety of sources by the Center for Tobacco Use Prevention and Research in Okemos, Michigan.

Transcripts are unedited and in their original form. Some are rough copies and others may be marked as "confidential" although they no longer retain that status.

The DATTA collection was added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library in September 2004 and was updated December 2007.

Bliley

The Bliley collection is a special collection comprised of documents that defendants in State of Minnesota v. Philip Morris, et al, claimed were privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. A Special Master appointed by the Court determined that the documents were not privileged or were subject to the crime fraud exception to attorney-client privilege; the Court subsequently adopted those findings and ruled that the documents be produced. While the companies disputed that ruling in court, Congressman Thomas Bliley, the Chairman of the House Commerce Committee, subpoenaed the documents in question and soon after receipt posted them on the Commerce Committee web site. A concise history of this collection appears in a ruling by the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (212 FRD 421 DDC 2002).

For ease of searching, the Bliley documents have been integrated into the industry collections from which they originated.

For tips on searching Bliley documents, please access Searching Bliley Documents on the FAQ page.

The Bliley collection was added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library in July 2005.

Liggett & Myers

In 1997, Liggett & Myers, the smallest of the five major tobacco companies, became the first to settle lawsuits in 22 states and to help state prosecutors litigate against the nation's biggest cigarette manufacturers by providing evidence of industry strategies and tactics. Because of their early compliance with prosecutors, L&M was not included in the Master Settlement Agreement stipulation for creation of company document websites, meaning these documents exist nowhere else in electronic format.

The Liggett & Myers collection was added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library in July 2007.

Mangini ("Joe Camel")

This collection consists of internal documents from the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, produced as part of the discovery process in the 1994 civil case Mangini v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. A majority of the documents span the period 1970s - 1990s, when RJ Reynolds Tobacco developed the Joe Camel advertising campaign.

For more information on the internal documents produced in the Mangini case, please access "A Review of R.J. Reynolds' Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Civil Number 939359 -- The Case that Rid California and the American Landscape of Joe Camel".

The Mangini collection was added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library in July 2002.

UCSF Brown & Williamson

Thousands of pages of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. documents were donated unsolicited to the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives in 1994. These documents consist primarily of scientific studies on the addictive nature of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke. Brown & Williamson sought to permanently remove the disputed material from the Library with a suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court. The University of California contended that all of the documents were in the public domain and should be available to scholars and other interested parties. On May 25, 1995, the Superior Court ruled that these documents should be made available for public review. Brown & Williamson appealed that decision, and on June 23, 1995, the Court of Appeals refused a temporary restraining order preventing release of the documents. On June 29, the California Supreme Court rejected the company's appeal allowing UCSF to release the documents.

For more information on the San Francisco Superior Court suit filed by Brown & Williamson, access the Tobacco Control Archives Litigation section on the UCSF Library web site.

The UCSF Brown & Williamson collection was added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library in July 2002.

United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice collection is a special collection of documents that defendants in United States v. Philip Morris, et al., No. 99-CV-2296 (D.D.C. filed Sept. 22, 1999), initially withheld from production to the United States on grounds of privilege or other protection. Over the course of numerous privilege challenges by the United States, the defendants withdrew their privilege assertions for many documents and voluntarily produced them to the court. Separately, the court held that a number of documents were not to be protected by attorney-client privilege and the defendants were ordered to produce these documents. This collection includes both voluntarily-produced documents and documents produced subject to court compulsion.

The documents considered for this collection were first compared against documents already in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library to avoid duplicates. Thus, the absence of a particular document from this special collection - at least if it is already present in another part of the library - does not indicate whether it was or was not produced in United States v. Philip Morris, et al.

This collection contains documents from United States tobacco companies; similar United States Department of Justice documents from the British American Tobacco Company are in the BATDA database at http://bat.library.ucsf.edu.

To search this collection, go to the Expert Search page and search for "justice" in the Special Collection (speccoll:) field. Example - speccoll:justice

The United States Department of Justice collection was added to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library in October 2007.