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COLE v. TOBACCO INSTITUTE

No. 1;97-CV-256.

47 F.Supp.2d 812 (1999)

Carlis COLE, et al., Plaintiff, v. The TOBACCO INSTITUTE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

March 26, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Carl Hilliard, Hilliard & Munoz, Corpus Christi, TX, Russell W. Heald, Hilliard & Heald, Beaumont, TX, for plaintiff.

Tanner T. Hunt, Jr., Wells, Peyton, Greenberg, Hunt & Crawford, Beaumont, TX, Mary Elizabeth McGarry, John J. Kenney, Gerald E. Hawxhurst, Brian C. Lake, David M. Moss, Ronald M. Neumann, James M. McLaughlin, Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett, New York City, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

COBB, District Judge.

The Plaintiffs have brought suit against tobacco manufacturers for themselves and purportedly for all other persons in Texas who are similarly situated; i.e. cigarette smokers, past and present, or their survivors and next of kin.

One of the defendants, B.A.T. Industries p.l.c., has filed a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction on the grounds that it is merely a holding company based in...

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