LABORERS LOC. 17 HLTH & BEN. FUND v. PHILIP MORRIS

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert M. Wachtell, New York, New York (Peter C. Hein, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, New York; Paul K. Stecker, Paul F. Jones, Charles R. Chase, Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber LLP, Buffalo, New York; David S. Eggert, James M. Rosenthal, Arnold & Porter, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant Philip Morris, Inc.; Robert W. Gaffey, Michael S. Chernis, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, New York, New York; Robert F. McDermott, Jr., Donald B. Ayer, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Marjorie Press Lindblom, Peter A. Bellacosa, Kirkland & Ellis, New York, New York; David M. Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Illinois; Kenneth N. Bass, Jennifer Gardner, Paul B. Taylor, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (including as successor by merger to Defendant-Appellant The American Tobacco Co.); Alan E. Mansfield, Greenberg Traurig, New York, New York; Robert E. Northrip, Bruce R. Tepikian, Samuel B. Sebree, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Kansas City, Missouri, for Defendant-Appellant Lorillard Tobacco Co.; Michael M. Fay, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant Liggett & Myers, Inc.; Peter J. McKenna, Eric S. Sarner, Mark S. Cheffo, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant United States Tobacco Co.; Steven Klugman, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant The Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc.; Anthony Mansfield, Seward & Kissel, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant The Tobacco Institute, Inc.; Barry S. Schaevitz, Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.; Bruce M. Ginsberg, Michael C. Lasky, Davis & Gilbert, New York, New York, for Defendant-Appellant Hill & Knowlton, Inc.), of counsel and on the joint brief for Defendants-Appellants.

Michael C. Spencer, New York, New York (Melvyn I. Weiss, Kenneth J. Vianale, Beth A. Kaswan, Joan T. Brown, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, New York, New York; Robert J. Connerton, James R. Ray, John McN. Broadus, Connerton & Ray, Washington, D.C.; Perry Weitz, Robert J. Gordon, Jerry Kristal, Mitchell Breit, Karen J. Sabine, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., New York, New York; Christopher P. O'Hara, Colleran, O'Hara & Mills, Garden City, New York; Stephen F. Gordon, Joel Spivak, Mirkin & Gordon, P.C., Great Neck, New York; Professor G. Robert Blakey, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana; Professor Einer Elhauge, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, of counsel), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Carl R. Schenker, Jr., Washington, D.C. (John H. Beisner, Teresa Kwong, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Hugh F. Young, Jr., Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston, Virginia; Jan S. Amundson, General Counsel, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C.), of counsel and on the brief for Amici Curiae Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. and National Association of Manufacturers in Support of Defendants-Appellants.

Laurence J. Cohen, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Before: CARDAMONE, CABRANES, and STRAUB Circuit Judges