KERRIVAN v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

No. 18-13045.

953 F.3d 1196 (2020)

Kenneth KERRIVAN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, individually and as successor by merger to the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation and The American Tobacco Company, Philip Morris USA, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 24, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth S. Byrd , Andrew R. Kaufman , John T. Spragens , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Richard M. Heimann , Sarah Robin London , Robert J. Nelson , Kent L. Klaudt , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Samuel Issacharoff , New York University School of Law, New York, NY, Charles Easa Farah, Jr. , Farah & Farah, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Stephanie J. Hartley , Richard Lantinberg , Janna Blasingame McNicholas , Norwood Wilner , The Wilner Firm, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Lance V. Oliver , Motley Rice, LLC, Mt. Pleasant, SC, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Scott A. Chesin , Lauren R. Goldman , Mayer Brown, LLP, New York, NY, Judith Bernstein-Gaeta , M. Sean Laane , Maura McGonigle , Geoffrey Michael , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, Washington, DC, Dana G. Bradford, II , Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Jacksonville, FL, Andrew S. Brenner , Mark Jurgen Heise , Patricia Melville , Stephen Neal Zack , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Miami, FL, Joshua Reuben Brown , Greenberg Traurig, PA, Orlando, FL, Karen C. Dyer , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, Cathy Ambersley Kamm , James B. Murphy, Jr. , Terri Lynn Parker , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Tampa, FL, Connor Jay Sears , David Robbins Swaney , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Kate Skagerberg , Beck Redden & Secrest, Houston, TX, Ingo Sprie, Jr. , Arnold & Porter, LLP, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellant Phillip Morris USA, Inc.

Scott A. Chesin , Mayer Brown, LLP, New York, NY, Dana G. Bradford, II , Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Jacksonville, FL, Andrew S. Brenner , Stephen Neal Zack , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Miami, FL, Joshua Reuben Brown , Greenberg Traurig, PA, Orlando, FL, Jason Todd Burnette , David M. Monde , Stephanie Ethel Parker , Jordon Patterson , Michael F. Stoer , John F. Yarber , Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, Karen C. Dyer , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, Mark Jurgen Heise , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Miami, FL, Charles Richard Allan Morse , Jones Day, New York, NY, James B. Murphy, Jr. , Terri Lynn Parker , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Tampa, FL, Robert B. Parrish , Joseph W. Prichard, Jr. , David C. Reeves , Jeffrey Alan Yarbrough , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, FL,

Before WILLIAM PRYOR and JILL PRYOR, Circuit Judges, and ROBRENO, District Judge.


In this Engle progeny case,1 Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (together, the "Tobacco Companies") appeal the district court's denials of their renewed motions for judgment as a matter of law and motion for a new trial or remittitur. The motions challenged the...

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