NAEGELE v. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY

No. S090420.

123 Cal.Rptr.2d 61 (2002)

28 Cal.4th 856

50 P.3d 769

Joseph NAEGELE, as Trustee, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. RJ. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents. Richard Donaldson, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

August 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wartnick, Chaber, Harowitz, Smith & Tigerman, Wartnick, Chaber, Harowitz & Tigerman, Harry F. Wartnick, Madelyn J. Chaber, Phillip Scott Chan, San Francisco; Law Offices of Daniel U. Smith, Daniel U. Smith, Los Angeles, and Ted W. Pelletier for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Meyers, Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson and Andre J. Saltzman for Professor Stephen D. Sugarman as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Richard M. Frank, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Dennis Eckhart, Assistant Attorney General, and Peter M. Williams, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, H. Joseph Escher III, Ethan P. Schulman, Keith D. Kessler, Richard Shively, San Francisco, and Anne Marie Eileraas for Defendant and Respondent R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold and Frederick D. Baker, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.

Fred Main for California Chamber of Commerce as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

William L. Gausewitz for The Alliance of American Insurers, The American Insurance Association, The National Association of Independent Insurers, The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies and The Reinsurance Association of America as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


KENNARD, J.

Tobacco-related illnesses are a leading cause of death in this state and worldwide, and these debilitating illnesses have imposed enormous costs on tobacco users, their families, and society. (See, e.g., Health & Saf.Code, § 104350, subd. (a).) Although the risk of illness and death from tobacco use has become increasingly well known in recent decades, tobacco consumption continues to be widespread...

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