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OH, SO CONTRACTS SIGNED BY YOUR ATTORNEY DON'T COUNT, EH?
December 22, 2005
Quote of the day number 1:
"The state is bound, like any other party is bound, to the contracts to which it freely and knowingly enters, and from which it benefits. Here the state seeks to abrogate that which it has promised but offers neither to forgo future payments or to refund past payments."
- Minnesota District Court Judge Michael Fetsch, in striking down a 75-cent per pack "tobacco health impact fee" enacted in violation of the tobacco settlement.
Quote of the day number 2:
"The judge made a significant error by ignoring the principal of separation of power which is the Legislature's authority to independently make decisions without being bound by prior agreements reached by the attorney general."
- Minnesota Governor Tom Pawlenty, who is still quite willing to cash the checks from the tobacco settlement negotiated by the attorney general.
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