Kentucky tobacco lawsuit News

Lawsuits filed against five Kentucky tobacco farms claim they exploited migrant workers by paying substandard wages, providing squalid housing and threatening some with jail or deportation if they complained. The Courier-Journal reports Nashville-based Southern Migrant Legal Services filed three federal …

State lawmakers are trying to figure out how to enforce the terms of a settlement reached with the nation’s largest tobacco companies. What’s at stake: About $100 million in state revenue every year that pays for a host of agricultural, …