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AMERICAN TOBACCO CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. A041641.

208 Cal.App.3d 480 (1989)

255 Cal. Rptr. 280

AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Respondent; RUBY MAE STANTON et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

February 6, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, George A. Sears, Gary H. Anderson, C. Douglas Floyd, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Kevin J. Dunne, W. Bruce Wold, Michael F. Healy, Margaret L. Eaton, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer, Charles Breyer, Richard Patch, Cooper, White & Cooper, Charles W. Kenady, Lillick, McHose & Charles, John W. Ford, Thomas G. Scarvie, Randall S. Farrimond, Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Apel, Lewis L. Fenton, Larry E. Hayes, Rogers, Joseph, O'Donnel & Quinn, Joseph W. Rogers, Jr., Pamela Phillips, Thelen, Marrin, Johnson & Bridges, Frederic C. Nelson, Steven L. Hock, James C. Collins, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, Martin R. Glick, H. Joseph Escher III and Todd E. Thompson for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent.

George W. Kilbourne, Sanders, Dodson, Rives, McLaughlin & Pegnim and Bryce C. Anderson for Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

KLINE, P.J.

Petitioners, manufacturers of tobacco products, each of whom is a defendant in one or more of eleven lawsuits pending in respondent court, seek a writ of mandate and/or prohibition to compel the lower court to set aside its orders denying petitioners' motions for judgment on the pleadings in the actions filed by the real parties in interest. As we explain, petitioners are entitled to judgments on the pleadings...

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