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CIPOLLONE v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 83-2864, 84-678.

649 F.Supp. 664 (1986)

Antonio CIPOLLONE, individually and as executor of the Estate of Rose D. Cipollone, Plaintiff, v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., a Delaware Corporation; Philip Morris, Incorporated, a Virginia Corporation; and Loew's Theaters, Inc., a New York Corporation, Defendants. Susan HAINES, Etc., Plaintiff, v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

December 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Budd, Larner Gross, Picillo, Rosenbaum, Greenberg & Sade, Short Hills, N.J., Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge, N.J., for plaintiffs.

Brown & Connery, Westmont, N.J., for defendant Philip Morris, Inc.

Sills, Beck, Cummis, Zuckerman, Radin, Tischman & Epstein, Newark, N.J., for defendant Loew's Theaters, Inc.

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis & Bergstein, Woodbridge, N.J., for defendant Liggett Group, Inc.

SAROKIN, District Judge.

The parties here move for clarification of the effect of the Third Circuit's opinion in this case, Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 789 F.2d 181 (3d Cir.1986), regarding the preemptive effect of the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act on plaintiff's tort suit against the defendant cigarette manufacturers. The Third Circuit's opinion has thus left this...

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