VARNEY v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY

No. 1:98CV12564.

118 F.Supp.2d 63 (2000)

Sadie E. VARNEY, 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

Sandra S. McQuay, Ann L. Carpenter, Sullivan, Weinstein & McQuay, P.C., Burton A. Waisbren, Jr., Burton A. Waisbren, Jr., M.D., J.D., Boston, MA, for Plaintiff.

Thomas E. Peisch, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Donald J. Wood, Connarton, Wood & Callahan, William P. Corbett, Jr., Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford, Boston, MA, Thomas J. Griffin, Jr., John B. Daukas, Brenda R. Sharton, Robert M. Braceras, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar, John H. Henn, David R. Geiger, Gregory T. Moffatt, Evan Georgopoulos, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, Daniel J. Endick, David L. Wallace, Chadbourne & Parke, New York City, Jeffrey S. Follett, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Richard M. Zielinski, Robert D. Ryan, Hill & Barlow, Jeffrey B. Renton, Gediman & Gediman, Nelson Gediman, Gediman & Gediman, P.C., Boston, MA, Robert J. Gilbert, Edward J. Denn, Gilbert & Renton, Andover, MA, Robert J. Muldoon, Jr., Kenneth D. Small, Sherin & Lodgen, David A. Brown, Sherin & Lodgen LLP, David H. Sempert, Kelly L. Wilkens, Cornell & Gollub, Frank C. Huntigton, James S. Dittmar, Franklin C. Huntington, IV, Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar, Boston, MA, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O'TOOLE, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Sadie E. Varney, 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 about the health risks of smoking and placed...

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