DELOACH v. PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES, INC.

No. Civ.A. 00-294(GK).

132 F.Supp.2d 22 (2000)

D. Lamar DELOACH, et al., Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES, INC., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 30, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander John Pires, Jr., Conlon, Frantz, Phelan & Pires, Washington, DC, Thomas Adam Isaacson, Robert Lamar Green Jr., Robert F. Ruyak, Alan Mitchell Wiseman, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White, Washington, DC, for plaintiffs.

Douglas Lewis Wald, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, for Philip Morris Companies, Inc.

Donna Elizabeth Patterson, Douglas Lewis Wald, Arnold & Porter, Donald L. Flexner, Boies & Schiller, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for defendants.

Peter Joseph Kadzik, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, Washington, DC, Jeffrey L. Willian, Stephen R. Patton, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Kenneth N. Bass, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, Donald Flexner, Boies & Schiller, L.L.P., Washington, DC, David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, L.L.P., Armonk, NY, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Peter Joseph Kadzik, Robert Bruce Holcomb, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, LLP, Washington, DC, for Lorillard Tobacco Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

KESSLER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs1 bring this putative class action on behalf of what they claim to be hundreds of thousands of tobacco growers and quota holders in the Southeast United States and elsewhere, alleging that Defendant tobacco companies2 have unlawfully conspired, from before 1996 through the present, to engage in various anti-competitive activities, including...

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