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Description of Documents
Before reviewing these documents, please note the following:
- The documents produced in the above litigation are a subset of a larger collection of documents. Therefore, numbering gaps often appear between documents.
- Certain oversized documents, videotapes, and other non-standard media are fully indexed, but are not available in image form. These materials are available at the State of Minnesota litigation document depository, located at 1021 - 10th Avenue, S.E. Hennepin Business Center ,Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, 1-612-378-5707, 1-800-526-8886, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m., Monday - Friday (excluding holidays).
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- Full text of actual requests filed by plaintiffs in various smoking and health actions are included on this website, but may have been subject to modification by agreement of the parties or by court order or otherwise modified.
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