MASSACHUSETTS LABORERS' HEALTH & WELFARE FUND, By and Through its Trustees, on Behalf of Itself and on Behalf of all Other Similarly Situated Health and Welfare Funds in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Plaintiff,
v.
PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; B.A.T. Industries P.L.C.; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Liggett Group, Inc.; The Council for Tobacco Research — U.S.A., Inc.; The Tobacco Institute, Inc.; Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
August 4, 1999.
August 4, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert J. Connerton, James S. Ray, Connerton, Ray & Simon, Washington, DC, Jerry Kristal, Weitz & Luxemberg, Cherry Hill, NJ, Robert J. Doyle, Carol R. Steinberg, Steinberg, Doyle, Boston, MA, for Massachusetts Laborers' Health and Welfare Fund, Plaintiff.
Henry C. Dinger, Kenneth J. Parsigian, Marshall Simonds, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Boston, MA, for Philip Morris Inc., Defendant.
Donald B. Ayer, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, Thomas E. Peisch, William P. Corbett, Jr., Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Boston, MA, Donald J. Wood, Connarton, Wood & Callahan, Boston, MA, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Defendants.
John H. Henn, David R. Geiger, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, Majorie Press Lindblom, Kirkland & Ellis, New York, NY, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Defendant.
Frank C. Huntington, James S. Dittmar, Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, Boston, MA, for B.A.T. Industries P.L.C., Defendant.
Gael Mahony, Richard M. Zielinski, Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, Gay L. Tedder, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for Lorillard Tobacco Co., Defendant.
Kelly L. Wilkins, Cornell & Gollub, Boston, MA, for Liggett Group, Inc., Defendant.
Steven Klugman, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY, Thomas E. Peisch, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Boston, MA, for the Council for Tobacco, Research-U.S.A., Inc., Defendant.
Robert J. Muldoon, Jr, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, for the Tobacco Institute, Inc, Defendant.
David R. Geiger, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, for Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Defendant.
Robert J. Doyle, Carol R. Steinberg, Steinberg, Doyle, ston, MA, for William Zall & Sons, Sulgrave, Meridian Tobacco Co., George Melhado, Marks Wholesale, Inc., Garber Bros., Inc., City Cigarette, Jason Brudnick & Co., Inc., Auburn Merchandise Distributors, Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.
OPINION
O'TOOLE, District Judge.
This opinion resolves three motions pending before the Court: the defendants' motion to dismiss the original complaint (Dkt. No. 20), the plaintiff's motion to amend the complaint (Dkt. No. 35), and the defendants' motion to dismiss the new counts added by the amended complaint (Dkt. No. 46). The Court concludes that the plaintiff has failed to set forth claims upon which relief can be granted, except to the extent...
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