Mike Moore (US politician)

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name= Mike Moore
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office= Mississippi Attorney General
term_start= January, 1988
term_end= January, 2004
predecessor= Ed Pittman
successor= Jim Hood
birth_date= 3 April 1952
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profession=Attorney
party= Democratic
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Michael Moore (born 3 April 1952 in Pascagoula, Mississippi [ [http://www.nndb.com/people/833/000166335/ NNDB.com profile] ] ) was the Attorney General for the State of Mississippi from 1988 to 2004. In 1994, he filed the first lawsuit against thirteen tobacco companies, claiming that they should reimburse the State for the costs of treating those with smoking-related illnesses. Attorneys General from several other states joined the suit, with Moore as the lead negotiator. The settlement was worth $246 billion to the states, including $4.1 billion for Mississippi. The Michael Mann-directed film "The Insider" (starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe) portrays some of the events leading up to this settlement, and Moore appears in the film as himself in several scenes.

Moore received his J.D. in 1979 from the University of Mississippi. He served as the District Attorney for Pascagoula. In 1997 he was awarded "Lawyer of the Year" by the National Law Journal.

Moore is now head of Mike Moore Law Firm LLC in Jackson, Mississippi. He serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, which is funded by money from the tobacco settlement. Moore also sits on the Board of Directors for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and on the Advisory Board of Prepaid Legal, Inc.

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External links

* [http://www.nndb.com/people/833/000166335/ NNBD.com profile]
* [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/deal/people/moore.html Mike Moore] , Frontline: Inside the Tobacco Deal
* [http://www.healthy-miss.org/index.php?action=37 Board of Directors Biography] , Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi
* [http://governing.com/poy/1998/ptmoore.htm Big Tobacco's Nemesis] "Governing Magazine"
* [http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/organization/board.shtml Board of Directors List] , Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
* [http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:P43lEQLorJQJ:billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2003/pdf/SC/SC0581SG.pdf+mike+moore+mississippi&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=18&gl=us&client=firefox-a Concurrent Resolution by the State Senate of Mississippi]
* [http://wserver0.prepaidlegal.com/newCorp2/about_us/advisory_council.html Prepaid Legal, Inc Advisory Council] , Prepaid Legal