Lorillard added to consent order on tobacco industry documents, bringing total available to improve LTDL to $6.9 million

Lorillard, Inc., the remaining defendant cigarette manufacturer in the federal Racketeer Corrupt Influenced Organization Act (RICO) case against the tobacco industry, has been added to the consent order governing the release of industry documents and procedures for making them available on and improving the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.  Lorillard will pay $650,000 to the federal district court to improve public access to internal documents, bringing to $6.9 million the sum being paid by the companies to the Court, which is providing the money to the UCSF Legacy Library to index the documents and improve the searching capabilities of the web site.

The consent order (which specifies how Lorillard is to index the documents and specifies the payments to the court) is here, together with the associated motion.

Thanks again to DOJ, the intervenors, and the UCSF Library for making this happen.