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Brown & Williamson Litigation Discovery Web Site |
This Web site contains more than one million documents produced by either Brown & Williamson or the American Tobacco Company (referred to as "American") and released in Minnesota tobacco litigation and other lawsuits and proceedings.
Brown & Williamson maintains this site containing documents from Brown & Williamson and the entity formerly known as The American Tobacco Company.
The search engine provided allows you to perform basic searches as well as advanced searches through a query builder. Field names, e.g., document type, title, author, etc., are called property names on this site.
To search for documents:
Note: Entering more than one term automatically prompts the search engine to assume the Boolean operator AND. For example, if you enter Savitt in the author field and addiction in the title field, your search results would contain only articles by Savitt with addiction in the title.
This site also provides an advanced search:
Click switch to advanced search to see a new search tool. This option allows you to build your own search statements.
The Boolean operator does not always work and using it can negate the search. The documents are not all legible and each page must be viewed separately.
| Title | The title of the document. |
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| Document Type | The document type provides the primary type of document category for each document. Examples of document type are letter, memo, report, computer printout. |
| Other Document Type | The other document type provides a high-level grouping of the document types. Example: other document type is publication; document type contains values such as abstract, magazine, newspaper, brochure. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| Document Date | The date associated with the document. Date format is YYYYMMDD (e.g., 19900114). |
| Author | The name of the author of the document and/or the associated affiliation. (Documents may have multiple authors/affiliations. Author is defined as a person or affiliation.) |
| Addressee | The name of the addressee of the document and/or the associated affiliation. (Documents may have multiple addressees /affiliations. Addressee is defined as a person or affiliation to which the document is directed.) |
| CC | The name of the copyee of the document and/or the associated affiliation. (Documents may have multiple copyees/affiliations. Copyee is defined as a person or affiliation on the document's distribution list.) |
| Names Mentioned | Names and organizations mentioned in the text or margins of a document. May also include attendees of meetings. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| Brands | Cigarette brand name(s) and certain other tobacco products mentioned in the document. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| Characteristics | Description of the traits, qualities, and properties of the document including attachments missing, draft, English abstract, foreign language, handwritten, illegible, marginalia, missing pages, oversized document, translation, etc. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| Other Number | Report numbers and patent numbers |
| Case ID | Case ID number provides a cross-reference to the case descriptions found in the section entitled "Case Identifier Information." |
| MN Request Num | Minnesota Request for Production number, e.g., 111 or 116. (Please reference "Brown & Williamson Minnesota Request Number Designations and Document Descriptions" or "American Tobacco Company Minnesota Request Number Designations and Document Descriptions.") |
| Other Request Num | Request for Production number associated with non-Minnesota document Productions. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| Doc Begin | The beginning page number of the document |
| Doc End | The ending page number of the document |
| Page Count | Indicates the number of imaged pages for a document. |
| Master Begin | The Bates Number of the first page of a set of documents grouped together by an attorney or legal assistant. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| Master End | The Bates Number of the last page of a set of documents grouped together by an attorney or legal assistant. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| Attachment Group | An ID number assigned to each document. All documents within the same physical group receive the same Attachment Group number. |
| File | The name of the file from which the document was collected. (Data for this field were not recorded for all documents.) |
| MN Select | Documents selected by plaintiffs in Minnesota. |
| Date Published | Date on which the document was published on this Web site. |
| All Text Fields | Documents that contain the search term in any of the 'text' fields – e.g., title, document type, author, addressee, CC. |
