STATE OF CALIFORNIA v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. B140709.

99 Cal.Rptr.2d 735 (2000)

83 Cal.App.4th 597

STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., Petitioners, v. The SUPERIOR COURT of Los Angeles County, Respondent; Louis J. Bolduc et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

As Modified September 13, 2000.

Review Denied November 15, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Dennis Eckhart, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and William F. Soo Hoo, Deputy Attorney General, for Petitioners.

Stephen H. Heller, Encino; Robert M. Tessier, Calabasas; Cheong, Denove, Rowell, Antablin & Bennett and John D. Rowell, for Real Parties in Interest.

No appearance for Respondent.


MIRIAM A. VOGEL, J.

The State of California and others sued six tobacco companies and others to recover money paid by the State for the treatment of tobacco-related illnesses suffered by its Medi-Cal beneficiaries. In coordinated litigation involving most of the 50 states, the dispute was resolved by a $206 billion settlement, from which California will receive about $25 billion over the next 25 years. The ink on the settlement was barely dry when a group of Medi...

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