SCOTT v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO., INC.

No. 97-CA-1973.

700 So.2d 1324 (1997)

Gloria SCOTT and Deania M. Jackson, et al. v. The AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 8, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Redfearn, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, for Plaintiffs' Legal Committee.

Phillip A. Wittmann, Stephen H. Kupperman, Dorothey H. Wimberly, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, L.L.P., New Orleans, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Thomas P. Anzelmo, Lance S. Ostendorf, Katherine H. Foster, Campbell, McCranie, Sistrunk, Anzelmo & Hardy, Metairie, Robert A. Kutcher, Chopin, Wagar, Cole, Richard, Reboul & Kutcher, L.L.P., Metairie, for the Distributor Defendants.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and BYRNES and WALTZER, JJ.


SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

This is before the court on motions filed by all parties. Plaintiffs filed a class action against four distributors of tobacco products who are the appellees herein and who are Louisiana domiciliaries and a number of manufacturers of tobacco products all of whom are domiciled in places outside of Louisiana.

The trial court sustained exceptions of no cause of action filed by appellees and from that judgment plaintiffs have taken this appeal...

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