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ARKANSAS BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SH. v. PHILIP MORRIS

No. 98 C 2612.

47 F.Supp.2d 936 (1999)

ARKANSAS BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD, a Mutual Insurance Company, and its affiliate HMO partners, Inc.; Health Care Service Corp., a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, (dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (aka HMO Illinois)), and its subsidiary, BCI HMO, Inc.; Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc., and its subsidiaries, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Connecticut, Southeastern Group, Inc., Southeastern United Medgroup, Inc., and Community Insurance Company; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri, Inc., and its subsidiaries, RightChoice Managed Care, Inc. (dba Alliance Blue Cross Blue Shield), Healthy Alliance Life Insurance Company, HMO Missouri, Inc. (dba BlueChoice), and RightChoice Insurance Company; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City; Nordian Mutual Insurance Company (dba Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota), and its affiliate, Lincoln Mutual Life and Casualty Insurance Company, and Wellmark, Inc., and its subsidiaries, Wellmark of South Dakota, Inc., Wellmark Community Insurance, Inc., and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; B.A.T. Industries, P.L.C.; British American Tobacco company, Ltd.; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Liggett Group, Inc.; Liggett & Myers, Inc.; United States Tobacco Company; The Tobacco Institute, Inc; The Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.; The Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A. Inc.; Hill and Knowlton, Inc., and Unknown Corporations A-Z, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

April 6, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Carroll, Caesar A. Tabet, William Robert Quinlan, Quinlan & Crisham, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Health care Service Corp., Anthem Ins. Companies, Inc., Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri, Inc., Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, Nordian Mut. Ins. Co. and Wellmark, Inc., plaintiffs.

David Bruce Love, Thomas James Frederick, Dan K. Webb, Jeffrey Mark Wagner, Joseph J. Zaknoen, Andrew John Schaefer, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Philip Morris, Incorporated, defendant.

Michael A. Pope, Cathy McNeil Stein, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, IL, Thomas F. Gardner, Thomas P. McNulty, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Chicago, IL, Martin R. Glick, Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk, San Francisco, CA, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, defendant.

Fred A. Smith, III, Cathleen M. Jareczek, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, Chicago, IL, Kevin J. Dunne, Shelley L. Brittman, Nicholas W. Heldt, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, CA, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, defendant.

Michael T. Hannafan, Cory A. Johnson, Mark Alan Cisek, Michael T. Hannafan & Associates, Ltd., Chicago, IL, Kathleen L Turland, Joseph M McLaughlin, Patrick D Bonner, Jr, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for B.A.T. Industries P.L.C., defendant.

Michael T. Hannafan, Cory A. Johnson, Mark Alan Cisek, Chicago, IL,, for British American Tobacco Company, Ltd., defendant.

Gary Michael Elden, Gregory Campbell Jones, George Robert Dougherty, Tina M. Bagby, Grippo & Elden, Chicago, IL, for Lorillard Tobacco Company, defendant.

Harold C. Wheeler, James A. Morsch, Butler, Rubin, Saltarelli & Boyd, Chicago, IL, for Liggett & Myers, Inc., defendant.

Edward Michael Crane, Mark Edward Rakoczy, Deborah G. Solmor, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Chicago, IL, for United States Tobacco Company, defendant.

Paul L. Price, Price, Tunney, Loughnane, Reiter & Bruton, Chicago, IL, Amy Kathleen Collingnon, Daniel W Farroll, Larry E Hepler, Borroughs, Hepler, Broom, MacDonald & Hebrank, Edwardsville, IL, for Tobacco Institute, Inc., defendant.

Royal B. Martin, Jr., Robert S. Grabemann, Martin, Brown & Sullivan, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for The Council for Tobacco Research - U.S.A., Inc., defendant.

George G. Argionis, Clausen Miller P.C., Chicago, IL, Michael T. Trucco, Stamos & Trucco, Chicago, IL, for The Smokeless Tobacco Research Council, Inc., defendant.

Deborah Lynn Kuhn, Altheimer & Gray, Chicago, IL, for Hill and Knowlton, Inc., defendant.

Harold C. Wheeler, James A. Morsch, Chicago, IL, for Unknown Corporations, A-Z, Liggett Group, Inc., defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

BUCKLO, District Judge.

This action is one of three essentially identical actions brought by various Blue Cross and Blue Shield medical providers against numerous tobacco companies and others, alleging violations of federal RICO and antitrust laws, with pendent claims alleging violations of state law. Defendants seek dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6), Fed.R.Civ.P., for failure to state a claim. Similar motions were brought...

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