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COM. OF MASSACHUSETTS v. PHILIP MORRIS INC.

Civil Action No. 96-10014-GAO.

942 F.Supp. 690 (1996)

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Plaintiff, v. PHILIP MORRIS INC., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, B.A.T. Industries P.L.C., Lorillard Tobacco Company, Liggett Group, Inc., New England Wholesale Tobacco Co., Inc., Albert H. Notini & Sons, Inc., The Council for Tobacco Research — U.S.A., Inc., and The Tobacco Institute, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 20, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Sobol, Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, Boston, MA, Ronald L. Motley, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, SC, L. Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General's Office, Torts Division, Boston, MA, Michael P. Thornton, Thornton, Early & Naumes, Boston, MA, Jeffrey D. Woolf, Boston, MA, Laurence H. Tribe, Cambridge, MA, Richard M. Heimann, Lieff, Caraser, Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco, CA, for Com. of Massachusetts.

Kenneth J. Parsigian, Marshall Simonds, Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Boston, MA, Herbert M. Wachtell, Peter C. Hein, Ben M. Germana, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, for Philip Morris, Inc.

Robert F. McDermott, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

John H. Henn, David R. Geiger, Mark D. Rosen, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, Stephen D. McCormick, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Majorie Press Lindblom, Kirkland & Ellis, New York City, David Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Mary Elizabeth McGarry, Roy L. Reardon, Joseph M. McLaughlin, Jennifer S. Dominitz, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, James S. Dittmar, Joseph C. Marrow, Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, Boston, MA, for B.A.T. Industries P.L.C.

Gael Mahony, Richard M. Zielinski, Boston, MA, Theos D. McKinney, Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, Gene E. Voigts, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for Lorillard Tobacco Co.

Samuel Adams, Joseph J. Leghorn, Alexis S. Hamdan, Warner & Stackpole, Boston, MA, James V. Kearney, Latham & Watkins, New York City, James Cherney, Latham & Watkins, Chicago, IL, for Liggett Group, Inc.

Nelson Gediman, Boston, MA, for New England Wholesale Tobacco Co., Inc.

Robert Gilbert, Law Offices of Robert J. Gilbert, P.C., Andover, MA, for Albert H. Notini & Sons, Inc.

Steven Klugman, Joseph P. Moodhe, Joseph W. Rand, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City, Thomas E. Peisch, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal & Peisch, Boston, MA, for Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc.

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., David A. Guberman, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Paul R. Duke, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, for Tobacco Institute, Inc.

Harry G. Potter, III, Special Assistant Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Attorney General of the State of Texas.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O'TOOLE, District Judge.

After this action was commenced in the Massachusetts Superior Court, the defendants removed it to this Court. The plaintiff Commonwealth of Massachusetts has objected that the removal was improper and now asks that it be remanded. The principal issue raised by Massachusetts' motion is whether the complaint presents a "federal question" lying within the jurisdiction of this Court or whether the claims asserted...

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