R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. v. U.S. F.T.C.

No. 6:97CV00651.

14 F.Supp.2d 757 (1998)

R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION and Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina, Winston-Salem Division.

July 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith W. Vaughan, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, NC, for Plaintiff.

Gill P. Beck, Office of U.S. Attorney, Greensboro, NC, Gerald C. Kell, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Walter Clinton Holton, Jr., Office of U.S. Attorney, Greensboro, NC, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

OSTEEN, District Judge.

This matter comes before the court on Defendants' Motion to Dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. For the reasons stated herein, the court will grant Defendants' motion.

I. Allegations

A. The Complaint

The material facts, taken from the Complaint, are as follows. In 1988, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (Reynolds) introduced an anthropomorphic illustrated camel named Joe...

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