WAJDA v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

No. CIV.A.98-12152GAO.

103 F.Supp.2d 29 (2000)

Phyllis R. WAJDA, Plaintiff v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, et al., Defendants

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burton A. Waisbren, Jr., Burton A. Waisbren, Jr., M.D., J.D., Boston, MA, for Phyllis R. Wajda.

Thomas E. Peisch, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Boston, MA, Donald J. Wood, Connarton, Wood & Callahan, Boston, MA, Harold K. Gordon, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, New York, NY, William P. Corbett, Jr., Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Boston, MA, Mark Robert Seiden, Barbara Spalten Levy, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, New York, NY, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Thomas J. Griffin, Jr., John B. Daukas, Brenda R. Sharton, Robert M. Braceras, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, Boston, MA, Kenneth D. Small, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, for Philip Morris Inc.

John H. Henn, David R. Geiger, Gregory T. Moffatt, Evan Georgopoulos, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Kenneth D. Small, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Jeffrey S. Follett, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco.

Franklin C. Huntington, IV, Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, Boston, MA, for B.A.T. Industries, P.L.C.

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Richard M. Zielinski, Robert D. Ryan, Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, Kenneth D. Small, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, for Lorillard Tobacco Co.

David H. Sempert, Kelly L. Wilkins, Cornell & Gollub, Boston, MA, for Liggett Group, Inc.

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Kenneth D. Small, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, Scott Gediman, Nelson Gediman, Gediman & Gediman, P.C., Boston, MA, for New England Wholesale Tobacco Co., Inc.

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Kenneth D. Small, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, Robert J. Gilbert, Edward J. Denn, Gilbert & Renton, Andover, MA, for Albert H. Notini & Sons, Inc.

Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, Thomas E. Peisch, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Boston, MA, Kenneth D. Small, Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, MA, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, Boston, MA, William P. Corbett, Jr., Conn Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Boston, MA, for Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O'TOOLE, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Phyllis R. Wajda, brought this action against several tobacco companies and distributors in Massachusetts Superior Court, and the defendants then removed the case to this Court, which has jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332. The plaintiff claims that the defendants, conspiring with other members of the tobacco industry, deceived the public...

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