CITY OF BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, and the Greene County Racing Commission, Plaintiffs,
v.
The AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY; Fortune Brands, Inc.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; RJR Nabisco, Inc.; Batus, Inc.; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; Philip Morris Companies, Inc.; Philip Morris Incorporated (Philip Morris U.S.A.); Liggett Group, Inc.; Liggett & Myers, Inc.; Brooke Group, Limited; Loews Corporation; Lorillard Tobacco Company; The Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc.; The Tobacco Institute, Inc.; Hill & Knowlton, Inc.; and "A-Z entities" (Ala.R.Civ.P.9(h)), Defendants.
United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Western Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 9, 1998.
March 9, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Donald V. Watkins, Law Offices Of Donald Watkins, Birmingham, AL, J. L. Chestnut, Jr., Chestnut Sanders Sanders & Pettaway PC, Selma, AL, John J. Carey, Carey & Danis LLC, St. Louis, MO, John M. Deakle, William R. Couch, Deakle Law Firm, Hattiesburg, MS, John Michael Sims, Heidelberg, MS, David Danis, Danis Cooper Cavanagh & Hartweger, St. Louis, MO, D. Michael Campbell, Gregory L. Denes, Campbell & Associates, Miami, FL, Frank J. Janecek, Jr., William S. Lerach, Patrick J. Coughlin, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, San Diego, CA, for Plaintiffs.
Samuel H. Franklin, William H. Brooks, Lightfoot Franklin & White LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Joseph C. Espy, Melton Espy Williams & Hayes PC, Montgomery, AL, Scott D. Wise, Vincent Chang, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, NY, for Defendant RJR Nabisco Inc.
William J. Baxley, Joel E. Dillard, Baxley Dillard Dauphin & McKnight, Birmingham, AL, Scott E. Delacroix, Charles F. Gay, Jr., Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, Vernon L. Wells, II, Helen C. Foster, Randall D. Quarles, Walston Wells Anderson & Bains, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant Philip Morris Co. Inc.
Bruce F. Rogers, Thomas W. Thagard, III, Bainbridge Mims Rogers & Smith, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants Liggett Group Inc., Liggett & Myers Inc.
William C. Knight, Jr., John C. Morrow, D. Christopher Carson, Burr & Forman LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants Lowes Corporation, Lorollard Tobacco Co.
Edward S. Allen, Balch & Bingham LLP, Birmingham, AL, Robin G. Laurie, Sterling G. Culpepper, Jr., Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, AL, for Hill & Knowlton Inc.
United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Western Division.
Opinion
POINTER, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs City of Birmingham ("the City") and the Greene County Racing Commission ("Racing Commission") have filed a Second Amended Complaint in response to motions to dismiss brought by defendants. The court considered defendants' motions — based upon both Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2) — at oral argument on October 8, 1997. At that hearing, the court...
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