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SMITH v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

No. 13-14316.

880 F.3d 1272 (2018)

James SMITH, Sr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, et al., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 25, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn E. Barnett , Law Office of Morgan & Morgan, Nashville, TN, Janna M. Blasingame , Stephanie J. Hartley , Richard Lantinberg , Norwood Wilner , The Wilner Firm, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Kenneth S. Byrd , Andrew R. Kaufman , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Jordan S. Elias , Richard M. Heimann , Kent L. Klaudt , Sarah Robin London , Jerome Mayer-Cantu , Scott Purington Nealey , Robert J. Nelson , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, DirecTV, Inc., Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY, Charles Easa Farah, Jr. , Farah & Farah, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Samuel Issacharoff , New York University School of Law, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Stephanie Ethel Parker , Jason Todd Burnette , Michael F. Stoer , John F. Yarber , Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, Paul D. Clement , Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, Washington, DC, Charles Richard Allan Morse , Jones Day, New York, NY, Robert B. Parrish , Jeffrey Alan Yarbrough , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, FL, for Defendant-Appellant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

Before MARTIN, JULIE CARNES, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

This is an Engle progeny case1 brought by plaintiff James Smith, Sr. against defendant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. ("Defendant") to recover damages based on the death of his wife, Wanette Smith, from tobacco-related diseases caused by Mrs. Smith's decades-long history...

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