( March 3, 2025, 12:22 PM EST) -- HELENA, Mont. — A Montana federal judge granted a state legislator’s request to dismiss with prejudice his lawsuit accusing tobacco companies of violating a 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) by lobbying the state to allow certain vape products to be sold allegedly in contradiction of their MSA obligations and in furtherance of an alleged monopoly, after previously denying the legislator’s motion for a preliminary injunction....