Links & Resources

CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLARSHIP ON THE COMPACT CLAUSE

• Article: Compacts and Collusion by Michael S. Greve
• Study: Constitutional and Antitrust Violations of the Multistate Tobacco Settlement by Thomas C. O'Brien
• Book: The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (2005) (ISBN1-59698-001-X) - see pages 178-79 on the Compact Clause

BACKGROUND & ANALYSIS ON THE STATE TOBACCO LAWSUITS & MULTISTATE SETTLEMENT

• Book: Up In Smoke: From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics, 2nd Edition, by Martha A. Derthick
• Book: Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process, by Robert A. Levy
• Study: The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement and Antitrust, by Jeremy Bulow, Stanford Business School
• Documentary: Talking Butts: A Smoking Documentary, The Ludwig von Mises Institute
• Overlawyered.com
• States On The Take
  

RISKS & COSTS OF SMOKING

• Book: Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal by W. Kip Viscusi

ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTIVISM & THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ATTORNEYS GENERAL (NAAG)

• Book: Shakedown: How Corporations, Government and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process by Robert A. Levy
• Article (pdf format): State AGs Police Corporate America by J. Phil Carlton with Jocelyn Y. Dyer
• Study: Government by Indictment: Attorneys General and Their False Federalism by Michael S. Greve
• Article: Cartel Federalism? Antitrust Enforcement by State Attorneys General by Michael S. Greve, University of Chicago Law Review 72 UCHILR 99
• Article: Demonize, Then Pulverize: How Attorneys General Crush Industries in their Pursuit of Profit and Power by Sam Kazman
• Study: Restraining State Attorneys General, Curbing Government Lawsuit Abuse by Michael DeBow
• Commentary (pdf format): The Anti-Energy Manifesto of the State Attorneys General by Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• Website: AG Watch - The AEI Federalism Project's Eye on Attorneys General
• Capital Research Center study (pdf format): State Attorneys General- A National Association of Aspiring Governors? by John Gizzi
• NAAG confidential memo - page 1 - page 2 - page 3

TOBACCO SETTLEMENT SPENDING

• Report (pdf format): GAO: TOBCCO SETTLEMENT States' Allocations of Fiscal Year 2005 and Expected Fiscal Year 2006 Payments (GAO-06-502)
• Report (pdf format): GAO: TOBACCO SETTLEMENT States’ Allocations of Fiscal Year 2004 and Expected Fiscal Year 2005 Payments
• Report (pdf format): GAO: TOBACCO SETTLEMENT States’ Allocations of Fiscal Year 2003 and Expected Fiscal Year 2004 Payments
• Report (pdf format): GAO: TOBACCO SETTLEMENT States’ Allocations of Fiscal Years 2002 and 2003 Master Settlement Agreement Payments (GAO-03-407)
• Report (pdf format): GAO: TOBACCO SETTLEMENT States’ Use of Master Settlement Agreement Paments (through fiscal year 2001)

OTHER LINKS

• American Justice Partnership

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