THE STATE EX REL. PETRO, APPELLEE,
v.
R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, APPELLANT, ET AL.
Supreme Court of Ohio.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted March 16, 2004.
Decided December 30, 2004.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jones Day, Jeffrey J. Jones, Matthew A. Kairis, Columbus, Donald B. Ayer, Daniel H. Bromberg, Jack W. Campbell IV, and Thomas R. McCarthy, Washington, DC, for appellant.
Jim Petro, Attorney General, Douglas R. Cole, State Solicitor, Stephen P. Carney, Senior Deputy Solicitor, Joseph L. Piccin, Susan C. Walker, and Michael D. Allen, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee.
Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P.; J. Scott Jamieson and C. William O'Neill, Columbus, urging reversal for amicus curiae, D.D. Bean & Sons Co.
Gregg Renkes, Alaska Attorney General; Terry Goddard, Arizona Attorney General; Mike Beebe, Arkansas Attorney General; Bill Lockyer, California Attorney General; Ken Salazar, Colorado Attorney General; Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General; Mark J. Bennett, Hawaii Attorney General; Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General; Steve Carter, Indiana Attorney General; Tom Miller, Iowa Attorney General; Albert Benjamin Chandler III, Kentucky Attorney General; Steve Rowe, Maine Attorney General; J. Joseph Curran Jr., Maryland Attorney General; Tom Reilly, Massachusetts Attorney General; Mike Cox, Michigan Attorney General; Mike Moore, Mississippi Attorney General; Jeremiah W. Nixon, Missouri Attorney General; Mike McGrath, Montana Attorney General; Jon Bruning, Nebraska Attorney General; Brian Sandoval, Nevada Attorney General; Peter Heed, New Hampshire Attorney General; Peter C. Harvey, New Jersey Attorney General; Patricia Madrid, New Mexico Attorney General; Eliot Spitzer, New York Attorney General; Pamela Brown, Northern Mariana Islands Attorney General; W.A. Drew Edmonson, Oklahoma Attorney General; Hardy Myers, Oregon Attorney General; Gerald J. Papert, Pennsylvania Acting Attorney General, Joel M. Ressler, Chief Deputy Attorney General, and Timothy P. Keating, Deputy Attorney General; Anabelle Rodriquez, Puerto Rico Attorney General; Patrick Lynch, Rhode Island Attorney General; Henry McMaster, South Carolina Attorney General; Lawrence E. Long, South Dakota Attorney General; Paul G. Summers, Tennessee Attorney General; Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General; William H. Sorrell, Vermont Attorney General; Christine Gregoire, Washington Attorney General; Darrell V. McGraw, West Virginia Attorney General; Peg Lautenschlager, Wisconsin Attorney General; and Patrick J. Crank, Wyoming Attorney General; amici curiae, urging affirmance.
Supreme Court of Ohio.
PFEIFER, J.
Factual and Procedural Background
{¶ 1} The state of Ohio on the relation of appellee, the Attorney General, sued defendant-appellant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ("RJR"), and other tobacco companies in 1997, alleging deceptive trade practices, antitrust violations, and other claims. The state sought various forms of relief, including recovery of Medicaid expenditures for alleged...
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