CENT. ILL. CARPENTERS HEALTH v. PHILLIP MORRIS

No. 97-CV-568-WDS.

28 F.Supp.2d 514 (1998)

CENTRAL ILLINOIS CARPENTERS HEALTH AND WELFARE TRUST FUND, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PHILLIP MORRIS, INCORPORATED, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Illinois.

March 16, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Thomas Lakin, Lakin Law Firm, Wood River, IL, for Central Ill. Carpenters Health & Welfare Fund, Central Laborers Welfare Fund, East Central Ill. Pipe Trades Health and Welfare Fund, Local 100 Laborers Health& Welfare Fund, Local 231 Laborers Health & Welfare Fund, Local 996 Laborers Health & Welfare Fund, Midwestern Teamsters Health and Welfare Fund, NECA-IBEW Welfare Trust Fund, Northern Ill. & Iowa Laborers Health & Welfare Fund, Local 965 Operating Engineers Health & Welfare Fund, Railroad Maintenance & Indust. Health & Welfare, Local 218 Sheet Metal Workers Health & Welfare Fund, Southern Ill. Laborers & Employers Health & Welfare and Teamsters & Employers Welfare Trust of Ill., plaintiffs.

Gail G. Renshaw, Bobroff, Hesse, Clayton, MO, for NECA IBEW Welfare Fund, Local 32 Painters Health & Welfare Fund, Chicago Area I B of T Health and Welfare Fund, Local 703 Intern. Broth. of Teamsters, Local 710 Intern. Broth. of Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund, Local 743 IBT Health & Welfare Trust, Local 744 Beverage industry IBT Health & Welfare Fund, Local 27 Glazing Employers & Glaziers' Union Health & Welfare Fund, Suburban Teamsters of Northern Ill. Welfare Fund, Line Const. Ben. Fund, Local 100-A United Food & Commercial Workers Health & Welfare Fund, Local 9 IBEW Health and Welfare Trust Fund, plaintiffs.

David B. Love, Thomas J. Frederick, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, Lisa A. Pake, Alan C. Kohn, Kohn, Shands et al., St. Louis, MO, Lawrence R. Desideri, Dan K. Webb, Chicago, IL, for Philip Morris Inc., defendant.

Thomas F. Gardner, Jones, Day et al., Chicago, IL, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., plaintiff.

Andrew R. McGaan, James C. Munson, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., defendant.

Adam I. Stein, Mark G. Cunha, Simpson, Thacher et al., New York City, Stephen M. Schoenbeck, Lathrop, Gage et al., St. Louis, MO, for B A T Industries P.L.C., defendant.

Kurt E. Reitz, J. William Newbold, III, Thompson Coburn, Belleville, IL, J. William Newbold, III, Thompson Coburn, St. Louis, IL, for Lofillard Tobacco Co., Inc., defendant.

James A. Morsch, Harold C. Wheeler, Butler, Rubin et al., Chicago, IL, Michael M. Fay, Kasowitz, Benson et al., New York City, for Liggett Group, Inc., American Tobacco Co., Inc., defendants.

Kenneth J. Mallin, Mark W. Eggert, Rodney W. Ott, Bryan Cave, St. Louis, MO, Michael E. Wiles, Christopher M. Green, R. Townsend Davis, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City, Michael D. Murray, St. Louis, MO, for Council for Tobacco Research USA Inc., defendant.

Larry E. Hepler, Burroughs, Hepler et al., Edwardsville, IL, Deborah L. Kuhn, Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL, for Tobacco Institute, Inc., defendant.

Richard E. Boyle, Thomas R. Peters, Gundlach, Lee et al., Belleville, IL, David B. Love, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc., defendant.

Thomas E. Jones, Walker & Williams, Belleville, IL, for Weeke Wholesale Co., Dearborn Wholesale Grocers, Inc., World Wide Tobacco, Inc., Zenith Tobacco Corp. Republic Tobacco Management Corp., RJR Nabisco, Inc., RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., defendants.

Michael T. Hannafan, Cory A. Johnson, Chicago, IL, Aime L. Hendricks, Thomas J. McCormack, New York City, for British American Tobacco Co., Ltd., defendant.

Mark W. Eggert, Bryan Cave, St. Louis, MO, for U.S. Tobacco Sales & Marketing Research-USA, Inc., defendant.

Victoria I. Goldson, Shevon L. Harris, Lewis, Rice et al., St. Louis, Mo, Michael C. Lasky, Davis & Gilbert, New York City, for Hill & Knowlton, defendant.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

STIEHL, District Judge.

Before the Court is plaintiffs' motion to remand this cause of action to the Circuit Court for the Third Judicial Circuit, Madison County, Illinois.

BACKGROUND

On May 30, 1997, plaintiffs, fourteen named multi-employer health and welfare funds, filed suit, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, in the Circuit Court for the Third Judicial Circuit, Madison County...

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