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GRAND RIVER ENTERPRISE SIX NATIONS, LTD. v. PRYOR

Docket No. 06-2747-cv.

481 F.3d 60 (2007)

GRAND RIVER ENTERPRISE SIX NATIONS, LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant, Jash International, Inc., International Tobacco Partners, Ltd., Nationwide Tobacco, Inc., Sun Tobacco, Inc., 3B Holdings, Inc., and Attorney General Richard P. Leyoub, Plaintiffs, v. William PRYOR, Bruce M. Botelho, Janet Napolitano, Bill Lockyer, Ken Salazar, M. Jane Brady, Thurbert E. Baker, Allan G. Lance, Jim Ryan, Steve Carter, Thomas J. Miller, Carla J. Stovall, Albert Benjamin Chandler III, Richard P. Ieyoub, G. Steven Rowe, J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Thomas F. Reilly, Jennifer Granholm, Jeremiah W. Nixon, Michael McGrath, Don Stenberg, Eliot Spitzer, Roy Cooper, Betty D. Montgomery, Hardy Myers, Charles Condon, Mark Barnett, Paul G. Summers, Christine O. Gregorie, James E. Doyle and Hoke Macmillian, each in their official capacity as Attorneys General of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, respectively, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: March 6, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Violi, Law Offices of Leonard Violi, LLC, Mamaroneck, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Benjamin N. Gutman (Avi Schick, Deputy Attorney General, and Dana Biberman, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), for Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before CALABRESI, B.D. PARKER, and WESLEY, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Although this case comes to us against the backdrop of a $206 billion multi-state settlement of tobacco-related litigation, a protracted procedural history,1 and an important set of federal antitrust and dormant Commerce Clause challenges to the settlement and related state legislation, the precise question with which we are currently presented is a narrow one. We must determine whether, on the evidence before it, the district...

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