STATE of Florida, et al., Appellants,
v.
AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, et al., Appellees.
State of Florida, et al., Petitioners,
v.
Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & Mcleod, et al., Respondents.
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November 13, 1998.
November 13, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Myron H. Burnstein, Deputy Attorney General, Ft. Lauderdale, Louis F. Hubener, Assistant Attorney General, Jim Peters, Special Counsel and Kimberly Tucker, Deputy General Counsel, Tallahassee, and Parker D. Thomson and Carol A. Licko of Thomson, Muraro, Razook & Hart, Miami, for State of Florida, et al., Appellants/Petitioners.
Stephen J. Krigbaum, F. Townsend Hawkes, and Joseph Ianno, Jr. of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, West Palm Beach, and Steven P. Lockman of Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for Settling Defendants.
James W. Beasley, Jr., David Leacock, and Robert J. Hauser of Beasley, Leacock & Hauser, West Palm Beach, and Bruce S. Rogow and Beverly A. Pohl, Ft. Lauderdale; and Gerald J. Houlihan of Houlihan & Partners, Miami, for Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod; Montgomery & Larmoyeux; Sheldon J. Schlesinger, P.A.; Robert G. Kerrigan; Robert Montgomery, Jr., Sheldon J. Schlesinger; Howard & Associates, P.A.; and P. Tim Howard, Appellees/Respondents.
William C. Gentry of Gentry, Phillips & Hodak, Jacksonville; Wayne Hogan of Brown, Terrell, Hogan, Ellis, McClamma & Yegelwel, Jacksonville; and C. David Fonvielle III of Fonvielle, Hinkle & Lewis, Tallahassee, for The Peoples' Trial Advocates, Appellees.
Stuart C. Markman and Susan H. Freemon of Kynes, Markman & Felman, Tampa, for Yerrid, Knopik & Krieger, P.A., Appellee.
Thomas M. Ervin, Jr. of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs & Ervin, Tallahassee; Jack Scarola of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., West Palm Beach; and John F. Romano and Michael D. Eriksen of Romano, Eriksen & Cronin, West Palm Beach, for Joseph Rice; Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, P.A.; Scruggs, Millette, Bozeman & Dent, P.A.; and Maher, Gibson & Guiley, P.A., Appellees.
Arnold R. Ginsberg of Ginsberg & Schwartz, Miami, for Nance, Cacciatore, Sisserson, Duryea & Hamilton, Appellee.
Paul F. King, Assistant County Attorney, and Charles F. Schoech and Leonard G. Rubin of Caldwell & Pacetti, Palm Beach, for Dorothy H. Wilken, Clerk of Circuit Court, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Intervenor.
Cynthia M. Moore and Gary K. Harris of Boies & Schiller L.L.P., Orlando, for Richard A. Daynard, Intervenor.
Supreme Court of Florida.
PER CURIAM.
We have on consolidated review three trial court orders which the Fourth District Court of Appeal certified as being of great public importance and requiring immediate resolution by this Court. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(5), Fla. Const. As framed by the district court, the issue of great public importance raised in these orders which requires our immediate resolution is:
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