BARNES v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., INC.

No. CIV.A. 96-5903.

989 F.Supp. 661 (1997)

William BARNES, et al. v. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, INC., et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

October 10, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Sheller, Sherrice A. Knisely, Sheller, Ludwig & Badey, Philadelphia, PA, Thomas E. Mellon, Jr., Mellon, Webster & Mellon, Doylestown, PA, Arnold Levin, Jonathan Shub, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA, Julia W. McInery, Coalie and Van Sustern, Washington, DC, Gary Robert Fine, Rodham and Fine, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, Dianne M. Nast, Mary Ann M. Cooke, Roda and Nast, P.C., Lancaster, PA, Clifford E. Douglas, Evanston, IL, for Plaintiffs.

Edward F. Mannino, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, PA, Peter S. Greenberg, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, PA, for Defendant American Tobacco Co.

Hugh R. Witing, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, OH, Gerhard P. Dietich, Morton F. Daller, Tracy Canuso Nugent, Daller Greenberg & Dietrich, Fort Washington, PA, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Morton F. Daller, Tracy Canuso Nugent, Daller Greenberg & Dietrich, Fort Washington, PA, for RJR Nabisco, Inc.

Edward F. Mannino, James Lewis Griffith, Virginia Lynn Hogben, Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, PA, Gerhard P. Dietrich, Daller, Greenberg & Dietrich, Fort Washington, PA, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Judy L. Leone, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, Thomas Finarelli, Lavin, Coleman, O'Neil, Ricci, Finarelli & Gray, Philadelphia, PA, for B.A.T. Industries P.L.C.

Judy L. Leone, Robert C. Heim, Christine C. Levin, Ronni Ellen Fuchs, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, for Philip Morris, Inc., Phillip Morris Companies, Inc.

Howard M. Klein, William J. O'Brien, Conrad, O'Brien, Gellman & Rohn, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, Edward A. Greenberg, Gerhard P. Dietrich, Daller Greenberg & Dietrich, Fort Washington, PA, for Lorillard Tobacco Co., Inc., Lorillard, Inc.

Judy L. Leone, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, Madeline M. Sherry, Stephen J. Imbriglia, Heckler, Brown, Sherry and Johnson, Philadelphia, PA, for U.S. Tobacco Co., UST, Inc.

Howard M. Klein, William J. O'Brien, Conrad, O'Brien, Gellman & Rohn, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, for The Tobacco Institute, Inc.

Joseph M. Fuller, Jr., Patrick W. Kittredge, Gary M. Marek, Kittredge, Conley, Elson, Fullem & Embick, Philadelphia, PA, for Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc.

Mark E. Squires, J. Kurt Straub, Abrahams, Lowenstein, Bushman & Kauffman, Philadelphia, PA, for Liggett Group, Inc., Liggett & Myers, Inc., Brooke Group, Ltd.

Matthew L. Myers, Nat. Ctr. for Tobacco Free Kids, Washington, DC, for American Heart Ass'n, American Cancer Soc., American Lung Ass'n.


MEMORANDUM

NEWCOMER, District Judge.

Presently before this Court are Defendants' Motion to Enforce Jury Demand, and plaintiffs' response thereto, and defendants' reply thereto. For the following reasons, this Court will grant defendants' Motion.

I. Introduction

Plaintiffs,1 proceeding as the named representatives of a class of approximately one to two...

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