BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD, N.J. v. PHILIP MORRIS

No. 98 CV 3287(JBW).

190 F.Supp.2d 407 (2002)

BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF NEW JERSEY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INCORPORATED, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Liggett Group, Inc., Lorillard Tobacco Company, British American Tobacco, Ltd. Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

February 28, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dewey Ballantine LLP, New York, By Paul J. Bschorr, Esq., Vincent R. Fitz-Patrick, Jr., Esq., Michael Hefter, Esq., Heather K. McDevitt, Esq., Dewey Ballantine LLP, Washington, DC, By Martha J. Talley, Esq., for Plaintiffs Blue Cross, et al.

Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, By Murray R. Garnick, Esq., Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, San Francisco, CA, By Kevin J. Dunne, Esq., Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York, By James T. Conlon, Esq., for Defendant Philip Morris, Incorporated.

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, New York, By David M. Covey, Esq., Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, By Kenneth N. Bass, Esq., for Defendant Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.

Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, By Alan Mansfield, Esq., Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, MO, By Gary R. Long, Esq., for Defendants Lorillard Tobacco Company, Lorillard, Inc.

Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, By Steven Klugman, Esq., for Defendant Council for Tobacco Research, U.S.A., Inc.

Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP, New York, By Barry S. Schaevitz, Esq., for Defendant Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc.

Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge, & Rice, PLLC, Atlanta, GA, By R. Dal Burton, Esq., Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge, & Rice, PLLC, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27102, By Thomas D. Schroeder, Esq., Ursula M. Henninger, Esq., Collier, Shannon, Rill, & Scott, PLLC., Washington D.C., By John B. Williams, Esq., for Defendants R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and RJR Nabisco, Inc.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, By Thomas J. McCormack, Esq., for Defendant British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited (formerly known as British-American Tobacco Company Limited).

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, New York, By Joseph McLaughlin, Esq., for Defendant BAT Industries P.L.C.

Davis & Gilbert, LLP, New York, By Bruce M. Ginsberg, Esq., for Defendant Hill & Knowlton, Inc.

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, New York, By Leonard Feiwus, Esq., for Defendants Ligget Group Inc., Ligget & Myers, Inc., and Brooke Group Ltd.

Seward & Kissel, New York, By Anthony R. Mansfield, Esq., for Defendant The Tobacco Institute, Inc.


MEMORANDUM, ORDER AND JUDGMENT

WEINSTEIN, Senior District Judge.


Table of Contents

  I. Introduction ........................................................... 5
 II. Factual and Procedural Background ...................................... 5
III. Law ................................................................... 11
     1. Policy supporting allowing fees ...............................

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