PHILIP MORRIS, INC. v. BLUMENTHAL

No. 1904, Docket 97-7122.

123 F.3d 103 (1997)

PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, USA; Lorillard Tobacco Co., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Richard BLUMENTHAL, Attorney General, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter C. Hein, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City (William R. Murphy, Ben A. Solnit, Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, New Haven, CT, Donald B. Ayer, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, Edward F. Hennessey, III, David Thomas Ryan, Robinson & Cole, Hartford, CT, David M. Bernick, P.C., Marjorie Press Lindblom, Andrew R. McGaan, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Francis H. Morrison, III, James H. Rotondo, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, Gene E. Voigts, John C. Monica, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, James R. Fogarty, Andrew P. Nemiroff, Lawrence F. Reilly, Epstein Fogarty Cohen & Selby LLC, Greenwich, CT, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, Hartford, CT (David S. Golub, Jonathan M. Levine, Silver Golub & Teitell, LLP, Stamford, CT, Gregory T. D'Auria, Assistant Attorney General, Hartford, CT, of counsel), for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: MINER, McLAUGHLIN and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


MINER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants Philip Morris, Inc., RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, USA, and Lorillard Tobacco Co. (the "Tobacco Companies"), appeal from a judgment entered in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Dorsey, C.J.) on an order granting the renewed motion of defendant-appellee Richard Blumenthal, the Attorney General of the State of Connecticut (the "Attorney General" or the...

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