PHILIP MORRIS INC. v. JETT

No. 3D00-3189.

802 So.2d 353 (2001)

PHILIP MORRIS INCORPORATED, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company, and Brown & Williams Tobacco Corp., Individually and as Successor to the American Tobacco Company, Appellants, v. Saundra K. JETT, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing, Rehearing and Certification Denied December 19, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shook, Hardy & Bacon and Norman A. Coll and Kenneth J. Reilly, Miami; Smith Ballard & Logan and Alan C. Sundberg, Tallahassee; Greenberg, Traurig and Elliott Scherker and David L. Ross and Dawn Beighey Georgiades, Miami; Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and Jonathan Engram and Lisa Sheppard; Carlton Fields and Douglas J. Chumbley, Miami; Adorno & Zeder and Anthony N. Upshaw, Miami, for appellants.

Gerson & Davis and Edward S. Schwartz and Phillip M. Gerson, Miami; Angones, Hunter, McClure, Lynch & Williams and Steven Hunter, Miami; Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin and Joel S. Perwin, Miami, for appellee.

Before GERSTEN and GREEN, JJ., and NESBITT, Senior Judge.


Rehearing, Rehearing En Banc and Certification Denied December 19, 2001.

NESBITT, Senior Judge.

Defendants below, Phillip Morris Companies, Incorporated, and other companies that manufacture and sell tobacco products ("defendants") appeal an order entitled "ORDER ON THE COURTS ADMINISTRATION AND JURISDICTION OVER THE CONSUMMATION OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT." The order outlined which party would carry what burdens in the upcoming trial between the companies...

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