MILWAUKEE CARPENTER'S DISTRICT COUNCIL HEALTH FUND, Welfare Benefit Plan and Its Trustees; Milwaukee Driver's Health & Welfare Trust Fund, Welfare Benefit Plan and Its Trustees; Operating Engineer's Local 139 Health & Benefit Fund, Welfare Benefit Plan and Its Trustees; Wisconsin Health Fund, Welfare Benefit Plan and Its Trustees; individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
v.
PHILIP MORRIS, INCORPORATED; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; B.A.T. Industries, P.L.C.; British American Tobacco Company, Ltd.; Lorillard Tobacco Company; the American Tobacco Company; Liggett & Myers, Inc.; United States Tobacco Co.; the Tobacco Institute, Inc.; the Council for Tobacco Research U.S.A., Inc.; Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.; Hill and Knowlton, Inc.; National Tobacco Co., Inc.; Gerald F. Krause Enterprises, Ltd. d/b/a Friedman Tobacco and Candy Co.; and Unknown Corporations, A-Z, Defendants.
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September 13, 1999.
September 13, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert P. Goldstein, Ted M. Warshafsky, Frank T. Crivello, II, Warshafsky Rotter Tarnoff, Reinhardt & Bloch, Milwaukee, WI, for Milwaukee Carpenters District Council, Health Fund, Milwaukee Drivers, Health and Welfare Trust Fund, Local 139 International Union of Operating Engineers, Health Benefit Fund, Wisconsin Health Fund, plaintiffs.
Janice L. Tucker, Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, WI, Michael L. Zaleski, Quarles & Brady, Madison, WI, Dan K. Webb, Thomas J. Frederick, David B. Love, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Philip Morris, Inc., Defendant.
James R. Clark, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, WI, Thomas F. Gardner, Thomas P. McNulty, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Defendant.
Andrew R. McGaan, Michelle H. Browdy, Karen M. Fine, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Kenneth N. Bass, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co., Defendant.
Ralph A. Weber, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Milwaukee, WI, Mary E. McGarry, Adam I. Stein, Randall R. Rainer, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, NY, for BAT Industries, PLC, Defendant.
Jeffrey S. Nelson, Bruce R. Tepikian, Shook Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Bruce A. Schultz, Coyne Niess Schultz Becker & Bauer, Madison, WI, for Lorillard Tobacco, Co, Defendant.
Reuben A. Mjaanes, Robert V. Atmore, Lindquist & Vennum, Minneapolis, MN, Michael M. Fay, Aaron H. Marks, Marie V. Santacroce, James J. Stricker, Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, New York, NY, for Liggett & Myers Inc., Defendant.
Brian E. Butler, Barbara A. Neider, John A. Hansen, Stafford Rosenbaum Rieser & Hansen, for U.S. Tobacco, Co., Defendant.
John Koeppl, DeWitt Ross & Stevens, Madison, WI, for Tobacco Institute, Inc., Defendant.
John H. Schmid, Jr., Michael J. Modl, Axley Brynelson, Madison, WI, Bruce G. Hart, Steve Klugman, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY, for Council for Tobacco Research, U.S.A., Inc., Defendant.
Bruce M. Ginsberg, Davis & Gilbert, New York, NY, for Hill and Knowlton, Inc., Defendant.
David G. Peterson, Peterson Johnson & Murray, Milwaukee, WI, for National Tobacco Co., Inc., Gerald F. Krause Enterprises, Ltd., Defendants.
United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.
DECISION AND ORDER
ADELMAN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, four named health and welfare trusts or plans, filed this lawsuit on March 8, 1998, on behalf of themselves and a proposed class against numerous tobacco manufacturers, tobacco trade organizations, public relations firms, and tobacco distributors. The complaint contains eleven claims, none of which appears, on its face, to be based upon federal law. Plaintiffs and the defendant tobacco distributors...
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