IN RE ENGLE CASES

Nos. 13-10839, 13-12901, 13-14302.

767 F.3d 1082 (2014)

In re ENGLE CASES 4432 Individual Tobacco Plaintiffs, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Various Tobacco Companies, Liggett Group, LLC, Vector Group, Ltd., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 10, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Lisa Cisneros , Nancy Chung , Heather A. Foster , Richard M. Heimann , Kent L. Klaudt , Sarah Robin London , Scott Purington Nealey , Robert J. Nelson , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Kathryn E. Barnett , Kenneth S. Byrd , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, Eddie Easa Farah , Farah & Farah, Pa, Stephanie J. Hartley , Richard J. Latinberg , Norwood Wilner , The Wilner Firm, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Jennifer Gross , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Samuel Issacharoff , New York University School of Law, New York, NY, Frederick C. Baker , Rebecca M. Deupree , James W. Ledlie , Donald A. Migliori , Christopher F. Moriarty , Lance V. Oliver , Vincent I. Parrett , Joseph F. Rice , Elizabeth S. Smith , Motley Rice, LLC, Mount Pleasant, SC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Karen Haynes Curtis , Clarke Silverglate, PA, Kelly Anne Luther , Maria H. Ruiz , Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, LLP, Rafael Cruz-Alvarez , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, William Patrick Geraghty , Aviva L. Wernick , Nicolas Swerdloff, I , Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Francisco Ramos, Jr. , Clarke Silverglate, PA, Kenneth J. Reilly , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Miami, FL, Stephanie Ethel Parker , Lynsey Morris Barron , Jason Todd Burnette , Jessica C. Casey , Richard Hunter Deane, Jr. , Gregory Russell Hanthorn , Mina Saifi Iturbe , Laura Christine Lawson , David M. Monde , Kathleen Louise Tucker , John F. Yarber , John M. Walker , Jones Day, Jonathon A. Fligg , Robert Dalrymple Burton , Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, W. Ray Persons , King & Spalding, LLP, Michael Wolak, III , Wargo & French, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Charles Richard Allan Morse , Jones Day, Keri Arnold , Michael Craig German , Ingo Sprie, Jr. , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Kevin E. Braker , Kevin Clines , Steven S. Dicesare , James C. Fitzpatrick , Jeff H. Galloway , Diane Elizabeth Lifton , Theodore V.H. Mayer , Carole Weitz Nimaroff , Robb W. Patryk , Seth D. Rothman , George A. Tsougarakis , Daniel H. Weiner , Cecily C. Williams , Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Lauren R. Goldman , Mayer Brown, LLP, Harold K. Gordon , Mark R. Seiden , Jones Day, New York, NY, David Booth Alden , Katrina L.S. Caseldine , Kevin D. Boyce , Steven N. Geise , Bradley W. Harrison , Paul D. Koethe , Dawn Elizabeth McFadden , Dennis L. Murphy Jacqueline Marie Pasek , James E. Young , Jones Day, Cleveland, OH, Owen B. Asplundh , Gwenda L. Laws , Kurt Douglas Weaver , Philip Zoltan Brown , Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLC, Raleigh, NC, H. Christopher Bartolomucci , Paul D. Clement , Erin E. Murphy , Stephen V. Potenza , Bancroft, PLLC, Renee Tyndell Beaver , Judith Bernstein-Gaeta , Eliza S. Crane , Khalil Gharbieh , Peter T. Grossi , Brittany E. Hamelers , David E. Kouba , M. Sean Laane , Robert Alexander McCarter , Mallori Browne Openchowski , Carolyn A. Pearce , Jason Alan Ross , Rosemary F. Smith , Michael S. Tye , Geoffrey Michael , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Gregory G. Katsas , Junius C. McElveen, Jr. , Jones Day, William R. Stein , John F. Wood , Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Robert A. McCarter, III , James A. Wilson , William A. Yoder , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Amir C. Tayrani   Miguel A. Estrada Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, Elizabeth Blackwell , Michael B. Minton , Thompson Coburn, LLP, Saint Louis, MO, Eric K. Blumenfeld , Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, Jersey City, NJ, Mary Katherine Gates Calderon , Andrew D. Carpenter , Andrew J. Coleman , Christopher V. Cotton , William J. Crampton , Stanley D. Davis , Kelly H. Foos , Gregory L. Fowler , Christopher P. Grambling , Robert D. Homolka , Lori McGroder , Maria Salcedo , Stephanie Sowers Sankar , Lori R. Schultz , Connor Jay Sears , Bruce R. Tepikian , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Angela M. Splittgerber , Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Karen Bray , Stephen L. Saxl , Alan E. Mansfield , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Florham Park, NJ, Kamie F. Brown , Ray Quinney & Nebeker, PC, Salt Lake City, UT, B. Kurt Copper , Leslie E. McCarthy , Jones Day, Columbus, OH, Bonnie C. Daboll , Cathy Ambersley Kamm , Cecilia M. Bidwell , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Tampa, FL, Rachel E. Daly , J. Keith Tart , Geoffrey K. Beach , Hada De Varona Haulsee , Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Winston-Salem, NC, Mitzie L. Dobson , Bonne Bridges Muller O'Keefe & Nichols, Los Angeles, CA, Brian A. Foster , DLA Piper LLP (US), San Diego, CA, Nathan D. Foster , Thomas W. Stoever, Jr. , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Denver, CO, Kathleen A. Gallagher , Beck Redden & Secrest, Houston, TX, Lucy E. Mason , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Alison M. Stocking , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Brian Joseph Murray , Jones Day, Chicago, IL, Joseph Matthew Rabil , David C. Reeves , Thomas Cleveland Sullivan , Jeffrey Alan Yarbrough , Moseley, Charles M. Trippe , Dana G. Bradford, II , Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, John A. Devault, III , Bedell Dittmar Devault Pillans & Coxe, Andrew J. Knight, II , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Janna M. Blasingame , The Wilner Firm, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Carl L. Rowley , Susan L. Werstak , Thompson Coburn, LLP, Saint Louis, MO, Maria H. Ruiz , Gregory G. Katsas , Peter T. Grossi , Kelly Anne Luther , Charles Richard Allan Morse , for Defendants-Appellees.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, TJOFLAT and SILER, Circuit Judges.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated appeals are yet another chapter in the ongoing tobacco litigation that began as a class action in Florida courts more than two decades ago and has since swollen the federal docket with thousands of individual cases. Today we are asked to decide the fate of 588 personal injury cases filed on behalf of purportedly living cigarette smokers who, as it turns out, were dead at the time of filing (a group we shall call the "predeceased...

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