Robert A. FALISE; Louis Klein, Jr.; Frank Macchiarola; and Christian E. Markety, Jr. as Trustees, Plaintiffs,
v.
The AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; B.A.T. Industries, PLC; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; Philip Morris Incorporated; Liggett Group, Inc.; and Lorillard Tobacco Company, Defendants.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 1, 2000.
May 1, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, James L. Stengel, Peter Bicks, New York, NY, Kazan, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Steven Kazan, Oakland, CA, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Ronald Motley, Mt. Pleasant, SC, for Plaintiffs.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Thomas D. Schroeder, Bonnie Kay Donahue, Winston-Salem, NC, R. Dal Burton, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Greenburg Traurig, Alan Mansfield, Stephen L. Saxl, New York, NY, for Defendants Lorillard Tobacco Company, Philip Morris Incorporated and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Liaison Counsel for Defendants.
Kirkland & Ellis, David M. Bernick, James Munson, Deirdre A. Fox, Chicago, IL, for Defendants The American Tobacco Company and Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, individually as successor by merger to the American Tobacco Company.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Joseph M. McLaughlin, Jr., Adam Stein, New York, NY, for Defendant B.A.T. Industries.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Gary Long, Gay Tedder, Terrence Sexton, Andrew Carpenter, Kansas City, MO, for Defendants Lorillard Tobacco Company and Philip Morris Incorporated.
Winston & Strawn, Dan Webb, Jeffrey M. Wagner, Chicago, IL, for Defendant Philip Morris Incorporated.
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, Alan Kraus, Keith Weingold, Morristown, NJ, for Defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. Co., Inc.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 321
II FACTS ........................................................................ 323
A. Asbestos .................................................................. 323
1. Uses and Production ......................................
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