BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF NEW JERSEY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs,
v.
PHILIP MORRIS, INCORPORATED, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 30, 2001.
April 30, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York City by Paul J. Bschorr, Vincent R. FitzPatrick, Jr., Michael Hefter, Heather K. McDevitt, Dewey Ballantine LLP, Washington, DC by Martha J. Talley, for Plaintiffs Blue Cross, et al.
Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC by Murray R. Garnick, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, CA by Kevin J. Dunne, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York City by James T. Conlon, for Defendant Philip Morris, Incorporated.
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York City by David M. Covey, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC by Kenneth N. Bass, for Defendant Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York City by Alan Mansfield, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, MO by Gary R. Long, for Defendants Lorillard Tobacco Company, Lorillard, Inc.
Debevoise & Plimpton, New York City by Steven Klugman, for Defendant Council for Tobacco Research, U.S.A., Inc.
Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP, New York City by Barry S. Schaevitz, for Defendant Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.
Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge, & Rice, PLLC, Atlanta, GA by R. Dal Burton, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge, & Rice, PLLC, Winston-Salem, NC by Thomas D. Schroeder, Ursula M. Henninger, Collier, Shannon, Rill, & Scott, PLLC., Washington D.C. by John B. Williams, for Defendants R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and RJR Nabisco, Inc.
Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York City by Thomas J. McCormack, for Defendant British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (formerly known as British-American Tobacco Company Limited).
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York City by Joseph McLaughlin, for Defendant BAT Industries P.L.C.
Davis & Gilbert, LLP, New York City by Bruce M. Ginsberg, for Defendant Hill & Knowlton, Inc.
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, New York City by Leonard Feiwus, for Defendants Liggest Group Inc., Liggest & Myers, Inc., and Brooke Group Ltd.
Seward & Kissel, New York City by Anthony R. Mansfield, for Defendant The Tobacco Institute, Inc.
United States District Court, E.D. New York.
REVISED MEMORANDUM & ORDER
WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.
I. Introduction
Plaintiff, Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New York ("Empire"), is suing major tobacco product manufacturers and related entities ("Tobacco") for increased health care costs arising from deceptions about the effects of tobacco use on subscribers' health. Defendants proffer evidence that Empire shifted heightened...
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