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CONN. PIPE TRADES HEALTH FUND v. PHILIP MORRIS

No. 397CV1305(JBA).

153 F.Supp.2d 101 (2001)

CONNECTICUT PIPE TRADES HEALTH FUND, et al., v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC., et al.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

March 21, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvyn I. Weiss, Michael C. Spencer, Beth A. Kaswan, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, New York City, Robert M. Cheverie, Cheverie & Associates, East Hartford, CT, Steven E. Fineman, Perry Weitz, Weitz & Luxenberg, New York City, for Health Fund and International Brotherhood of Elec. Workers, Local 90.

Michael M. Buchman, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, New York City, for International Brotherhood of Workers.

Benjamin A. Solnit, William R. Murphy, Timothy P. Jensen, Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn, New Haven, CT, Glory Martyn Lena, Tyler Cooper & Alcorn, Hartford, CT, Antonio Ponvert, III, Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., Bridgeport, CT, Steven C. Bennett, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, New York City, Peter C. Hein, Barbara Robbins, Ben M. Germana, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, for Philip Morris, Inc. and RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co.

David M. Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, James H. Rotondo, Day, Berry & Howard, Hartford, CT, Marjorie Press Lindblom, Peter Bellacosa, Kirkland & Ellis, New York City, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. and American Tobacco Co.

John C. Yavis, Jr., Murtha Cullina LLP, Hartford, CT, for Bat Indus. PLC.

James R. Fogarty, Lawrence F. Reilly, Epstein, Fogarty, Cohen & Selby, Greenwich, CT, Gael Mahony, Bruce Falby, Dylan Sanders, Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, Andrew P. Nemiroff, Epstein, Fogarty, Cohen & Selby, Greenwich, CT, for Lorillard Tobacco Co.

Paul M. O'Connor, Jr., Greenwich, CT, for Liggett & Myers Inc.

William H. Narwold, Cummings & Lockwood, Hartford, CT, Heather Victoria Taylor, John P. McKinney, Cummings & Lockwood, Stamford, CT, Joshua van Hulst, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Stamford, CT, for US Tobacco Co.

David L. Belt, Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., New Haven, CT, for Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A., Inc.

David L. Belt, Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., New Haven, CT, Bourke G. Spellacy, Robert Reginald Simpson, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C., Hartford, CT, Steven Bruce Malech, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, Hartford, CT, for Tobacco Inst., Inc.

Edward V. O'Hanlan, Elizabeth T. Grove, Cummings & Lockwood, Stamford, CT, Michael K. Stanton, Jr., Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle, Stamford, CT, for Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.

Dorit S. Heimer, Levett Rockwood, P.C., Westport, CT, for Hill & Knowlton, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION ON DEFENDANTS' MOTIONS TO DISMISS [Doc. ## 52, 55, 95, 97]

ARTERTON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, trustees of the Connecticut Pipe Trades Health Fund and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 90 Benefit Plan, two Connecticut labor-management health and welfare trust funds ("the Funds") filed this class action suit against defendants Philip Morris, Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp...

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