GRISHAM v. PHILIP MORRIS U.S.A

Nos. 03-55780, 03-56018.

482 F.3d 1131 (2007)

Leslie J. GRISHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PHILIP MORRIS U.S.A., a corporation; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company Corp., individually and as successor to the American Tobacco Company and its predecessor in interest, British American Tobacco Industries, PLC, Defendants-Appellees. Maria Cannata, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., aka Philip Morris; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Louis Stanley, Santa Monica, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Maria Cannata.

Frances M. Phares, Baum Hedlund, PC, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel U. Smith, Law Office of Daniel U. Smith, Kentfield, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Leslie J. Grisham.

Murry R. Garnick, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Washington, DC; Maurice A. Leiter, Arnold & Porter, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel P. Collins, Munger Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Fred D. Heather, Amy W. Schulman, DLA Piper, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Sheila B. Schuerman, Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, PA, for defendant-appellee Philip Morris.

Paul Crist, Jones Day, Cleveland, OH; Peter N. Larson, Jones Day, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Brown & Williamson.

Before JEROME FARRIS, DOROTHY W. NELSON, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

PER CURIAM.

In light of the California Supreme Court's decision in Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., 40 Cal.4th 623, 54 Cal.Rptr.3d 735, 151 P.3d 1151 (2007), and in light of the Joint Report of the Parties Re: Decision of the California Supreme Court on the Certified Questions...

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