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BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORP. v. GAULT

No. S05Q1465.

627 S.E.2d 549 (2006)

280 Ga. 420

BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION v. GAULT et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied April 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorian Noel Daggs, Balch & Bingham, LLP, William Randall Bassett, Jr., William E. Hoffmann, Jr., Eric M. Wachter, Richard A. Schneider, Gordon Allen Smith, King & Spalding, LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.

Ralph Irving Knowles, Jr., Robert E. Shields, Leslie J. Bryan, Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield Knowles & Devine, Atlanta, Clifford E. Douglas, Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Isaac Byrd, Deputy Atty. Gen., Sidney R. Barrett, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

HUNSTEIN, Presiding Justice.

In 1997 the State of Georgia brought suit in the Superior Court of Fulton County against a number of cigarette manufacturers, including Brown & Williamson ("B & W"), asserting product liability claims and seeking compensatory and punitive damages "to restore to the State's treasury those funds spent [by the State] for tobacco attributable health care costs." The parties settled the case one year later when the tobacco companies...

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