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Health Care & Hospital Law

Feb. 2, 2000

Statewide Ballot Battle Over Tobacco Settlement Averted

SACRAMENTO - The debate over how to spend California's $25 billion litigation settlement with tobacco companies will not spill over to the ballot box at the state level, but seems increasingly likely to produce an initiative fight in Orange County.

By Tom Dressler
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SACRAMENTO - The debate over how to spend California's $25 billion litigation settlement with tobacco companies will not spill over to the ballot box at the state level, but seems increasingly likely to produce an initiative fight in Orange County.
        Proponents of dev...

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