GRAHAM v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

No. 13-14590.

782 F.3d 1261 (2015)

Earl E. GRAHAM, as PR of Faye Dale Graham, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, individually and as successor by merger to the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation and The American Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellants, Lorillard Tobacco Company, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 8, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Issacharoff, New York University School of Law, Jennifer Gross, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, N.Y., Kathryn E. Barnett,   Kenneth S. Byrd, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, Frederick C. Baker,   Rebecca M. Deupree,   Lance V. Oliver, Motley Rice, LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC, Charles Easa Farah, Jr., Farah & Farah, PA, Edward I. Warren,   Norwood Wilner,   Richard Lantinberg,   Stephanie J. Hartley,   Janna M. Blasingame, The Wilner Firm, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Donald Alan Migliori, Motley Rice, LLC, Providence, RI, Scott Purington Nealey,   Robert J. Nelson,   Jerome Mayer-Cantu,   Sarah Robin London,   Richard M. Heimann,   Kent L. Klaudt,   Jordan S. Elias,   Elizabeth Joan Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Gregory G. Katsas,   Hilary R. Mehrkam,   Jones Day,   Michael S. Tye,   James B. Murphy, Jr.,   Terri Lynn Parker,   Carolyn A. Pearce,   Khalil Gharbieh,   David E. Kouba,   Keri Arnold,   Renee Tyndell Beaver,   Judith Bernstein-Gaeta, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Paul D. Clement, Bancroft, PLLC, Khalil Gharbieh,   Peter T. Grossi,   Brittany E. Hamelers, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Cathy Ambersley Kamm,   David E. Kouba,   M. Sean Laane,   Derek Read Molter, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Washington, DC, Andrew Brenner,   Stephen N. Zack,   Kenneth J. Reilly,   Stephanie Sowers Sankar,   Hildy M. Sastre, I,   William Patrick Geraghty, Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Mark Jurgen Heise, Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Stacey Koch Lieberman, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Stephen N. Zack,   Stacey Koch Lieberman,   Patricia Melville, Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Miami, FL, Robert B. Parrish,   J.W. Prichard, Jr.,   David C. Reeves,   Jeffrey Alan Yarbrough, Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, FL, David M. Monde,   Stephanie Ethel Parker,   John M. Walker,   John F. Yarber, Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, Cecilia M. Bidwell, Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Bonnie C. Daboll,   Cathy Ambersley Kamm,   James B. Murphy, Jr.,   Terri Lynn Parker, Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Tampa, FL, Cecilia M. Bidwell,   Dana G. Bradford, II, Andrew Brenner,   Joshua Reuben Brown,   Bonnie. C. Daboll,   Karen C. Dyer,   Roger C. Geary,   Mark Jurgen Heise,   Robert D. Homolka,   Brian Alan Jackson, Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Stephanie Sowers Sankar,   Connor Jay Sears, Kansas City, MO, Keri Arnold,   William Patrick Geraghty,   Michael Craig German, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Lauren R. Goldman, Mayer Brown, LLP, Charles Richard Allan Morse,   Jones Day,   Connor Jay Sears,   Ingo Sprie, Jr., Arnold & Porter, LLP, New York, N.Y., Thomas W. Stoever, Jr., Arnold & Porter, LLP, Denver, CO, Dana G. Bradford, II, Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Jacksonville, FL, Joshua Reuben Brown, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Karen C. Dyer, Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, Timothy James Fiorta, Jones Day, Cleveland, OH, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before TJOFLAT, JILL PRYOR and COX, Circuit Judges.


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