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TOMPKIN v. AMERICAN BRANDS

No. 98-4445.

219 F.3d 566 (2000)

Jocelyn TOMPKIN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN BRANDS, et al., Defendants, Phillip Morris, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed July 24, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Russell Smith (argued and briefed), R. Bryan Nace (briefed), A. Russell Smith Law Offices, Akron, OH, Michael E. Ciccolini, Germano, Rondy & Ciccolini, Akron, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Mary M. Bittence (briefed), Diane P. Chapman (briefed), Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, OH, Craig E. Gustafson (argued and briefed), Walter L. Cofer, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Kenneth J. Walsh (briefed), Tyler L. Mathews (briefed), McDonald, Hopkins, Burke & Haber Co, LPA, Cleveland, OH, Marie V. Santacroce, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, New York, NY, Patrick M. McLaughlin (briefed), McLaughlin & McCaffrey, Cleveland, OH, David S. Cupps (briefed), J. Scott Jamieson (briefed), Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Columbus, OH, Thomas E. Riley (briefed), Danielle Pareja Langhoff (briefed), Chadbourne & Parke, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: JONES, NELSON, and CLAY, Circuit Judges.

NATHANIEL R. JONES, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which CLAY, J., joined. DAVID A. NELSON, J. (pp. 576-80), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.

OPINION

NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant Jocelyn Tompkin, the widow of decedent David Tompkin, brought the underlying products liability suit against Defendants-Appellees The American Tobacco Company, Phillip Morris, Inc., Lorillard Tobacco...

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