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WAKELAND v. BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP.

No. Civ.A. 97-1091-BH-M.

996 F.Supp. 1213 (1998)

Billy J. WAKELAND, et al., Plaintiffs, v. BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Alabama, Southern Division.

March 5, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher E. Peters, J. Keith Givens, Angela J. Mason, Cherry, Givens, Peters & Lockett, P.C., Mobile, AL, Frederick T. Kuykendall, III, R. Jackson Drake, Charlene Cullen, Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs.

Edward S. Sledge, III, Archibald T. Reeves, IV, Frederick G. Helmsing, III, McDowell, Knight, Roedder & Sledge, L.L.C., Mobile, AL, Scott E. Delacroix, James G. Perdigao, Adams & Reese, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, Gary R. Long, James P. Muehlberger, Jennifer L. Brown, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., Kansas City, MO, H. Thomas Wells, Jr., William B. Waltheim, Jr., Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C., Birmingham, AL, Mack B. Binion, Kimberly C. Hodgson, Briskman & Binion, Mobile, AL, Frederick G. Helmsing, Jr., Joseph P.H. Babington, John T. Dukes, Helmsing, Lyons, Sims & Leach, P.C., Mobile, AL, Gordon A. Smith, W. Randall Bassett, King & Spalding, Atlanta, GA, Samuel H. Franklin, Stephen J. Rowe, Lightfoot, Franklin, White & Lucas, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Steve Geise, Rick Stuhan, Paul Koethe, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Cleveland, OH, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HAND, Senior District Judge.

Before the court is plaintiffs' motion for remand to the Circuit Court for Mobile County, Alabama (Doc. 7). Upon due consideration of all pertinent portions of the record, the court concludes that the motion to remand should be denied.

I. BACKGROUND

Billy J. Wakeland and Linda K. Wakeland, husband and wife, filed their complaint in this...

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