Gloria SCOTT and Deania M. Jackson, et al.
v.
The AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, et al.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 4, 1998.
Rehearing Denied March 1, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert L. Redfearn, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Wendell H. Gauthier, Gauthier, Downing, LaBarre, Beiser & Dean, Metairie, Louisiana, and Stephen B. Murray, Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Walter J. Leger, Jr., Leger & Mestayer, New Orleans, Louisiana, Attorneys for the Plaintiffs/Appellees.
Phillip A. Wittmann, Stephen H. Kupperman, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Jerome R. Doak, Margaret I. Lyle, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, Texas, and Scott F. Delacroix, Charles F. Gay, Jr., Deborah B. Rouen, Adams and Reese, L.L.P., New Orleans, Louisiana, and Gary R. Long, James P. Muehlberger, Jennifer L. Brown, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Kansas City, Missouri, and Steven W. Copley, John M. McCollam, Gordon, Arata, McCollam & Duplantis, L.L.P., New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charles W. Schmidt, III, C. Edgar Cloutier, III, Christovich & Kearney, L.L.P., New Orleans, Louisiana, and Charles L. Chassaignac, Carmelite M. Bertaut, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, L.L.P., New Orleans, Louisiana, and Richard A. Schneider, Michael R. Powers, King & Spalding, Atlanta, Georgia, and Alan H. Goodman, Thomas M. Benjamin, Lemle & Kelleher, L.L.P., New Orleans, Louisiana, and Joy G. Braun, John W. Hite, III, Sessions & Fishman, L.L.P., New Orleans, Louisiana, and D. Scott Wise, Vincent Chang, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York, New York, Attorneys for Defendants/Appellants.
Court composed of Judge WILLIAM H. BYRNES, III, Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge JAMES F. McKAY, III.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
BYRNES, Judge.
Defendants,1 all cigarette manufacturers, appeal a judgment certifying a class action, defining the members of the class, designating the two named plaintiffs herein as the representatives of that class, naming an interim plaintiffs' committee, providing for notice to the putative class, and dismissing all cigarette distributor defendants.2 This appeal is limited to those portions of the April...
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