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BROWN v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

No. 15-13160.

38 F.4th 1313 (2022)

Donna BROWN, 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, et al., Defendants, Philip Morris USA, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed: June 30, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick C. Baker , Robert Turner Haefele , James William Ledlie , Lisa M. Saltzburg , Sara Orpha Couch , Rebecca M. Deupree , Patrick Graham Maiden , Lance V. Oliver , Joseph F. Rice , Elizabeth S. Smith , Elizabeth C. Ward , Motley Rice, LLC, Mt. Pleasant, SC, Nathan David Finch , Motley Rice, LLC, Washington, DC, Mathew Jasinski , Michael J. Pendell , Motley Rice, LLC, Hartford, CT, Donald Alan Migliori , Motley Rice, LLC, Providence, RI, Kathryn E. Barnett , Law Office of Morgan & Morgan, Nashville, TN, Kevin R. Budner , Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Richard M. Heimann , Sarah Robin London , Robert J. Nelson , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Kenneth S. Byrd , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, 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, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

M. Sean Laane , Geoffrey Michael , Judith Bernstein-Gaeta , Andrew W. Beyer , Maura McGonigle , David M. Menichetti , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, Washington, DC, Thomas W. Stoever, Jr. , Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, Denver, CO, Ingo Sprie, Jr. , Keri Arnold , Arnold & Porter, LLP, New York, NY, Dana G. Bradford, II , Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Jacksonville, FL, Joshua Reuben Brown , Greenberg Traurig, PA, Orlando, FL, Karen C. Dyer , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Orlando, FL, Ryan Benjamin Witte , Stephen Neal Zack , Boies Schiller & Flexner, LLP, Miami, FL, Kathleen A. Gallagher , Kate Skagerberg , Beck Redden & Secrest, Houston, TX, Mark Jurgen Heise , Patricia A. Melville , Luis Eduardo Suarez , Heise Suarez Melville, PA, Coral Gables, FL, Peter M. Henk , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Houston, TX, Brian Alan Jackson , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, MO, Cathy Ambersley Kamm , James B. Murphy, Jr. , Terri Lynn Parker , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Tampa, FL, Shani Rivaux , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before Jordan, Tjoflat, Circuit Judges, and Beaverstock, Chief District Judge.

In this Engle-progeny1 case, Donna Brown, a lifelong smoker, sued Philip Morris USA, Inc.,2 seeking damages for the injuries she sustained as a result of smoking Philip Morris's cigarettes, specifically her development of peripheral vascular disease ("PVD")...

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