Robert A. FALISE; Louis Klein, Jr.; Frank Macchiarola; and Christian E. Markety, Jr. as Trustees, Plaintiffs,
v.
The AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; B.A.T. Industries, PLC; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; Philip Morris Incorporated; Liggett Group, Inc.; and Lorillard Tobacco Company, Defendants.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 3, 2000.
April 3, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James L. Stengel, Peter Bicks, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, New York City, Steven Kazan, Kazan, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Oakland, CA, Ronald Motley, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Mt. Pleasant, SC, for plaintiffs.
Thomas D. Schroeder, Bonnie Kay Donahue, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Winston-Salem, NC, R. Dal Burton, Atlanta, GA, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, defendant.
Alan Mansfield, Stephen L. Saxl, Greenburg Traurig, New York City, for Lorillard Tobacco Company, Philip Morris Incorporated and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Liaison Counsel, defendants.
David M. Bernick, James Munson, Deirdre A. Fox, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for The American Tobacco Company and Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, individually as successor by merger to the American Tobacco Company, defendants.
Joseph M. McLaughlin, Jr., Adam Stein, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for B.A.T. Industries, defendant.
Gary Long, Gay Tedder, Terrence Sexton, Andrew Carpenter, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Kansas City, MO, for Lorillard Tobacco Company and Philip Morris Incorporated, defendants.
Dan Webb, Jeffrey M. Wagner, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Philip Morris Incorporated, defendant.
Alan Kraus, Keith Weingold, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, Morristown, NJ.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.
PRELIMINARY ORDERS
WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.
Plaintiffs, trustees of a Trust established in 1988 as a result of the bankruptcy of the Johns-Manville Corporation, seek recovery against the major tobacco product manufacturers and related entities ("Tobacco") for their alleged role in contributing to asbestos-related injuries of the Trust's Claimants. The initial case, filed on December 31, 1997 ("Falise I"), was dismissed for lack of...
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