REGENCE BLUESHIELD v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.

No. C98-559R.

40 F.Supp.2d 1179 (1999)

REGENCE BLUESHIELD, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INCORPORATED, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington.

January 6, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Howorth, Foster Pepper & Schefelman, Portland, OR, David J. Dadoun, Thomas Fitzgerald Ahearne, Roger D. Mellem, Christopher Kane, Michael K. Vaska, Camden M. Hall, Foster Pepper & Schefelman, Seattle, WA, for Blue Cross Wyoming, Regence Idaho.

David B. Howorth, Foster Pepper & Schefelman, Portland, OR, David J. Dadoun, Thomas Fitzgerald Ahearne, Roger D. Mellem, Christopher Kane, Michael K. Vaska, Camden M. Hall, Foster Pepper & Schefelman, Seattle, WA, Paul J. Bschorr, Heather C. McDevitt, Michael C. Hefter, Vincent R. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Robert J. Morrow, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, Martha J. Talley, Dewey Ballantine, Washington, D.C., for Rocky Mountain Hospital, Medical Service Corporation, Blue Cross Washington & Alaska.

Roger D. Mellem, Foster Pepper & Schefelman, Seattle, WA, Paul J. Bschorr, Heather C. McDevitt, Michael C. Hefter, Vincent R. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Robert J. Morrow, Martha J. Talley, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, Martha J. Talley, Dewey Ballantine, Washington, D.C., for NW Medical Bureau.

Paul J. Bschorr, Heather C. McDevitt, Michael C. Hefter, Vincent R. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Robert J. Morrow, Martha J. Talley, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, Martha J. Talley, Dewey Ballantine, Washington, D.C. for New Mexico Blue Cross.

Paul J. Bschorr, Heather C. McDevitt, Michael C. Hefter, Vincent R. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Robert J. Morrow, Dewey Ballantine, New York City, Martha J. Talley, Dewey Ballantine, Washington, D.C., for Group Health Service, Hawaii Medical Service, New Mexico Blue Cross, Blue Cross Texas, Blue Cross Montana, Regence Blue Cross Utah, Regence Blue Cross, Regence Blue Shield.

James H. Jordan, Jr., Miller, Nash, Wiener, Hager & Carlsen, Seattle, WA, for Tobacco.

Steven T. Seward, Wickwire, Greene, Crosby, Brewer & Seward, Seattle, WA, Thomas J. Brewer, Heller, Ehrman, White & Mcauliffe, Seattle, WA, for Hill and Knowlton.

John D. Wilson, Wilson, Smith, Cochran & Dickerson, Seattle, WA, Richard C. Yarmuth, Yarmuth Wilsdon P.L.L.C., Seattle, WA, for Smokeless Tobacco.

Franklin Dennis Cordell, Richard James Murray, Gordon Murray Tilden, Seattle, WA, for Tobacco Institute.

Philip Randolph Meade, Thomas V. Harris, Merrick, Hofstedt & Lindsey, Seattle, WA, for U.S. Tobacco Company.

John G. Bermann, Helsell Fetterman LLP, Seattle, WA, for Liggett & Meyers, Inc.

Christopher W. Tompkins, Glenn S. Draper, Betts, Patterson & Mines, Seattle, WA, for Lorillard Tobacco Company.

Jay R. Henneberry, Lynn E. Mallya, Chadbourne & Parke, Los Angeles, CA, for British American Tobacco.

Kathleen L. Turland, Andrew T. Frankel, Patrick D. Bonner, Jr., Joseph M. McLaughlin, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, Mark Robert Koenig, Stephen Murray Todd, Todd & Wakefield, Seattle, WA, for BAT Industries PLC.

Nicholas W. Heldt, Kevin J. Dunne, Shelley L. Brittman, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, CA, Richard J. Wallis, John Arthur Tondini, Bogle & Gates PLLC, Seattle, WA, for Brown & Williamson.

Jessica T. Martin, H. Joseph Escher, Peter J. Busch, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA, Kimberly A. Boyce, Bradley S. Keller, Byrnes & Keller, Seattle, WA, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.

Leonard J. Feldman, John Wentworth Phillips, Peter A. Danelo, Heller, Ehrman, White & MCauliffe, Seattle, WA, for Philip Morris, Inc.


ORDER GRANTING CERTAIN DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS UNDER FED.R.CIV.P. 12(b)(6)

ROTHSTEIN, District Judge.

THIS MATTER comes before the court on certain defendants' motions to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) for failure to state a claim, to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(7) for failure to join necessary parties and defendant B.A.T. Industries' motion to dismiss for lack of personal...

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