Carrie BADON; Ray Badon; Russell Badon; Joe Mae Badon-Roberson; Scotty Joseph Badon, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
R J R NABISCO INC.; Liggett & Meyers Tobacco Co.; American Brands Inc.; Philip Morris Companies Inc.; B A T Industries, Ltd.; Pelican Cigar Co.; Malone & Hyde, Inc.; Schlesinger Wholesalers & Automotive Cigarette Service, Inc.; Philip Morris Inc.; R J Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.; Batus Holdings Inc.; American Tobacco Co.; Liggett Group Inc.; Brooke Group Limited; Hill & Knowlton Inc.; Tobacco Industry Research Committee; Council For Tobacco Research USA Inc.; Tobacco Institute Inc.; Fortune Brands Inc.; Liggett & Myers Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 16, 2000.
August 16, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Kenneth E. Badon (argued), Drew A. Ranier, Badon & Ranier, Lake Charles, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
James R. Nieset, Plauche, Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, LA, Theodore Martin Grossman, Mark A. Belasic, Dennis Leo Murphy, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, OH, for RJR Nabisco Inc. and RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Patrick A. Juneau, Jr., Barry Louis Domingue, The Juneau Firm, Lafayette, LA, Deborah B. Rouen, Robert N. Markle, Jeffrey Edward Richardson, Scott Edward Delacroix, Charles F. Gay, Jr. (argued), Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, for Philip Morris Companies, Inc. and Philip Morris, Inc.
Lloyd N. Shields, Daniel Lund, III, Shields, Mott & Lund, New Orleans, LA, for BAT Industries, Ltd.
John E. McElligott, Jr., Davidson, Meaux, Sonnier, McElligott & Swift, Lafayette, LA, for Pelican Cigar Co., Malone & Hyde Inc. and Schlesinger Wholesalers & Automotive Cigarette Serv., Inc.
Carmelite M. Bertaut, William F. Grace, Jr., Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, LA, William L. Durham, II, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Batus Holdings Inc., American Tobacco Co and Fortune Brands Inc.
Ellen Beth Malow, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, Houston, TX, Madeleine M. Fischer, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrier & Denegre, New Orleans, LA, for Liggett Group Inc., Brooke Group Ltd. and Liggett & Myers Inc.
David H. Nelson, Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh, Monroe. LA, for Council for Tobacco Research USA, Inc.
Alan H. Goodman, Thomas Mente Benjamin, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans, LA, for The Tobacco Institute, Inc.
Before KING, Chief Judge, and GARWOOD and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:
The instant interlocutory appeal concerns the propriety of the district court's denial of the plaintiffs' motion to remand this tobacco case to the Louisiana court from which defendants had removed it on the basis of diversity of citizenship, alleging that all the nondiverse defendants were fraudulently joined. The district court certified its denial of the motion to remand under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b) and we then granted plaintiffs' petition...
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