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CIPOLLONE v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC.

No. 87-5014.

822 F.2d 335 (1987)

Antonio CIPOLLONE, Individually, and as the Executor of the Estate of Rose D. Cipollone, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Philip Morris Incorporated, a Virginia Corporation, and Loew's Theatres, Inc., a New York Corporation, Defendants-Petitioners. Susan HAINES, as Administratrix ad Prosequendum and Executrix of the Estate of Peter F. Rossi, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Loew's Theatres, Inc., a New York Corporation, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a New Jersey Corporation, Philip Morris Incorporated, a Virginia Corporation, and the Tobacco Institute, Defendants-Petitioners. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., a Delaware Corporation, Philip Morris Incorporated, a Virginia Corporation, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a New Jersey Corporation, the Tobacco Institute, and Loew's Theatres, Inc., a New York Corporation, Petitioners. v. Honorable H. Lee SAROKIN, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, Nominal Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond F. Drozdowski, Brown & Connery, Westmont, N.J. (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., Murray Bring (argued), Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for Philip Morris Inc.

Alan S. Naar, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith, Ravin, Davis & Bergstein, Iselin, N.J. (Donald J. Cohn (argued), Webster & Sheffield, New York City, of counsel), for Liggett Group, Inc.

David K. Hardy, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., for Loew's Theatres, Inc.

Peter N. Perretti, Jr., Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, Morristown, N.J. (Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

John T. Dolan, Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, N.J. (Covington & Burling, Washington, D.C., of counsel), for The Tobacco Institute.

Marc Z. Edell (Argued), Budd Larner Gross Picillo Rosenbaum Greenberg & Sade, P.C., Short Hills, N.J., for Cipollone and Haines.

Before GIBBONS, Chief Judge, and SEITZ and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Chief Judge:

The defendants in several product liability actions pending in the district court petition here pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1651 (1982) for a writ of mandamus (1) directing the district judge to vacate an order modifying a discovery order previously entered by a United States magistrate, and (2) reassigning the cases to another judge. Petitioners contend that the challenged order is inconsistent with the mandate...

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