LABORERS LOC. 17 HEALTH BENEF. FUND v. PHILIP MORRIS

Nos. 97 Civ. 4550(SAS), 97 Civ. 4676(SAS).

26 F.Supp.2d 593 (1998)

LABORERS LOCAL 17 HEALTH AND BENEFIT FUND, and the Transport Workers Union New York City Private Bus Lines Health Benefit Trust, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; Bat Industries P.L.C.; Lorillard Tobacco Company, Inc.; Liggett & Myers Inc.; the American Tobacco Company; United States Tobacco Company; the Council for Tobacco Research — U.S.A., Inc.; the Tobacco Institute, Inc.; Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.; Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Defendants. UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS WELFARE FUND; Communication Workers of America Local 1180 Security Benefits Fund; International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 891 Welfare Fund; Social Service Employees Union Local 371 Welfare Fund, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; Bat Industries P.L.C.; Lorillard Tobacco Company, Inc.; Liggett & Myers Inc.; the American Tobacco Company; United States Tobacco Company; the Council for Tobacco Research — U.S.A., Inc.; the Tobacco Institute, Inc.; Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.; Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

August 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn I. Weiss, David J. Bershad, Michael C. Spencer, Kenneth J. Vianale, Beth A. Kaswan, Joan T. Brown, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, LLP., One Pennsylvania Plaza, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Mark G. Cunha, Jacob S. Pultman, Ronald M. Neuman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

I. Introduction

In June of 1997, plaintiffs, consisting of several employee benefit trust funds ("the Funds"), filed these parallel class-action law-suits to seek relief for purported fraud and other tortious conduct by several domestic cigarette manufacturers and related defendants.1 B.A.T. Industries p.l.c. ("BAT Industries") is one of the defendants named in the...

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