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TEXAS CARPENTERS HEALTH BEN. FUND v. MORRIS, INC.

No. 1:97CV625(TH).

21 F.Supp.2d 664 (1998)

TEXAS CARPENTERS HEALTH BENEFIT FUND, IBEW-NECA Southwestern Health and Benefit Fund and North Texas Laborers' Health and Welfare Fund, on Behalf of Themselves and on Behalf of all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.; B.A.T. Industries P.L.C.; Lorillard Tobacco Co.; Liggett Group, Inc.; the American Tobacco Co.; United States Tobacco Co.; the Council for Tobacco Research — U.S.A., Inc.; Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.; the Tobacco Institute, Inc. and Hill & Knowlton, Inc.; Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

August 31, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Windle Turley, Dallas, TX, John Broaddus, Washington, D.C., Robert J. Connerton, Washington, D.C., Robert Blakey, Notre Dame, IN, Jonathan S. Massey, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Jack E. McClard, Richmond, VA, Maya Eckstein, Richmond, VA, Lawrence Louis, Germer, Beaumont, TX, Sydney Bosworth McDole, Dallas, TX, Jerome Richard Doak, Dallas, TX, Jill E. Tananbaum, Dallas, TX, Walter Joshua Crawford, Jr., Beaumont, TX, Jennifer Gardner, Washington, D.C., Kenneth N. Bass, Washington, D.C., Tanner Truett Hunt, Jr., Beaumont, TX, Melody G. Thomas, Beaumont, TX, John J. Kenney, New York, NY, Gerald E. Hawxhurst, New York, NY, Brian C. Lake, New York, NY, Robert A. Gwinn, Dallas, TX, Ellen B. Malow, Houston, TX, Michael M. Fay, New York, NY, Jack Potter Carroll, Beaumont, TX, Robert E. Dodson, Texarkana, TX, Mark E. Lowes, Houston, TX, William Key Wilde, Houston, TX, Dennis Hranitzky, New York, NY, Steven Klugman, New York, NY, Lipscomb Norvell, Jr., Beaumont, TX, Jacqueline M. Stroh, Beaumont, TX, Lea F. Courington, Dallas, TX, Scott William MacLaren, Dallas, TX, Benton Jordan Barton, Dallas, TX, Edward John ("Jack") O'Neill, Jr., Houston, TX, Byron Charles Keeling, Houston, TX, Bruce Ginsberg, New York, NY, and Marc J. Rachman, New York, NY, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HEARTFIELD, District Judge.

Before the Court is Defendants' Motion to Dismiss [19]. The Court heard argument on the motion May 6, 1998. Having considered the arguments of counsel, the papers submitted, the applicable law and the record in this case, the Court is of the opinion that the motion should be GRANTED.

I. Background

Plaintiffs are three union trust funds1

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