TEXAS CARPENTERS HEALTH BENEFIT FUND, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-National Electrical Contractors Association Southwestern Health and Benefit Fund, and the North Texas Laborers' Health and Welfare Fund, on behalf of themselves and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
PHILIP MORRIS INCORPORATED; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; BAT Industries PLC; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Liggett Group Inc.; The American Tobacco Co.; United States Tobacco Company; Smokeless Tobacco Council Inc.; The Tobacco Institute Inc.; and Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 19, 2000.
January 19, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
George Robert Blakey (argued), Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN, for Texas Carpenters Health Benefit Fund.
R. Windle Turley, Patrick Carter Patterson, Law Office of Windle Turley, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Herbert Maurice Wachtell (argued), Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, NY, Scott Edward Delacroix, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, Lawrence Louis Germer, Germer & Gertz, Beaumont, TX, Maya Miriam Eckstein, Jack Edward McClard, Hunton & Williams, J. Burke McCormick, Hunton & McCormick, Richmond, VA, for Philip Morris, Inc.
Sydney Bosworth McDole, Jill Ellen Tananbaum, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Dallas, TX, Walter J. Crawford, Jr., Crawford & Olsen LLP, Beaumont, TX, David S. Eggert, Arnold & Porter, Robert H. Klonoff, Robert F. McDermott, Jr., Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, Thomas Glascock Slater, Jr., Hunton & Williams, Richmond, VA, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Kenneth Nathan Bass, Edward W. Warren, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
Robert A. Gwinn, Gwinn & Roby, Dallas, TX, for Lorillard Tobacco Co.
Ellen Beth Malow, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, Houston, TX, for Liggett Group Inc.
Jack Potter Carroll, John W. Newton, III, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, Beaumont, TX, for United States Tobacco Co.
William Key Wilde, Mark E. Lowes, Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, TX, for Council for Tobacco Research USA Inc.
Lipscomb David Norvell, Jr., Jacqueline Marie Stroh, Benckenstein, Norvell & Nathan, Beaumont, TX, for Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.
Lea F. Courington, Scott William MacLaren, Gwinn & Roby, Dallas, TX, for The Tobacco Institute, Inc.
Edward John O'Neill, Jr., Byron Charles Keeling, Clements, O'Neill, Pierce & Nickens, Houston, TX, for Hill & Knowlton, Inc.
Carl R. Schenker, Jr., John H. Beisner, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC, Hugh F. Young, Jr., Product Liability Advisory Council, Reston, VA, for Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Amicus Curiae.
Jan S. Amundson, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, DC, for National Association of Manufacturers.
Before DAVIS, JONES and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a case filed by union trust funds, which provide comprehensive health care benefits to employees, retirees and their dependents through welfare benefit plans, against tobacco companies and their lobbying and public relations agents. The case sought recovery against the defendants for costs incurred treating tobacco-related afflictions based upon federal antitrust and RICO causes of action and various pendent state...
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