McLAUGHLIN v. AMERICAN TOBACCO CO.

Docket No. 06-4666-cv.

522 F.3d 215 (2008)

Karen McLAUGHLIN, Jane Amodeo, David Tuttleman, Susan Bailey, Barbara Bishop, Trevor Campbell, Fergal Furlong, David Rogers, Barbara Schwab, Patricia Scocozza, and Jim Sherman, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, Altria Group, Inc., Philip Morris USA Inc., Lorillard Tobacqo Co, British American Tobacco Limited, Liggett Group, Inc., B.A.T. Industries P.L.C., and RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 3, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore M. Grossman, Jones Day, Cleveland, OH (Robert H. Klonoff and Mark A. Belasic, Jones Day, Cleveland, OH, Todd R. Geremia, Jones Day, New York, N.Y., Murray R. Garnick, Judith Bernstein-Gaeta, and James M. Rosenthal, Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, D.C., David M. Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, Guy Miller Struve, Frances E. Bivens, and Phineas E. Leahey, Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, N.Y., Gregory M. Loss, Thomas E. Riley, and Joseph G. Falcone, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, N.Y., Alan Mansfield and Stephen L. Saxl, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, N.Y., William L. Minder, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, Kansas City, MO, Aaron H. Marks, Leonard A. Feiwus, and Julie R. Fischer, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

Michael D. Hausfeld, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C. (Benjamin D. Brown, James J. Pizzirusbo, Brent W. Landau, Andrea L. Hertzfeld, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C, Burton H. Finkelstein and Richard M. Volin, Finkelstein, Thompson & Loughran, Washington, D.C, on the brief), for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Harvey Kurzweil, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, New York, N.Y. (Matthew L. DiRisio and Emilie B. Cooper, Dewey & Le-Boeuf LLP, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for Amicus Curiae Citizens' Commission To Protect the Truth.

John H. Beisner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C. (Jessica Davidson Miller and Charles E. Borden, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C, Hugh F. Young, Jr., Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston, VA, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc.

Alan E. Untereiner, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP, Washington, D.C, (Matthew R. Segal, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP, Washington, D.C, Robin S. Conrad and Amar D. Sarwal, National Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, D.C, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

Richard A. Daynard, Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA (Christopher N. Banthin, Public Health Advocacy Institute, Inc., Boston, MA, on the brief), for Amici Curiae Tobacco Control Resource Center Division of the Public Health Institute, Inc., and the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium.

Before: WINTER, WALKER, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.


JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:

While redressing injuries caused by the cigarette industry is "one of the most troubling . . . problems facing our Nation today," FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 529 U.S. 120, 125, 120 S.Ct. 1291, 146 L.Ed.2d 121 (2000), not every wrong can have a legal remedy, cf. Pearl v. City of Long Beach, 296 F.3d 76, 89 (2d Cir.2002), at least not...

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