PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC. v. LOURIE

No. 2D14-5403.

198 So.3d 975 (2016)

PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC., and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Appellant, v. James Harris LOURIE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Barbara Ruth Lourie, deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

August 10, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Razvan Axente and Bonnie Daboll of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., Tampa; Geoffrey J. Michael of Arnold & Porter, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Gregory G. Katsas of Jones Day, Washington, D.C.; and Charles R.A. Morse of Jones Day, New York, N.Y., for Appellants.

David J. Sales of David J. Sales, P.A., Jupiter; Laurie Briggs of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., West Palm Beach; Steven L. Brannock , Celene Humphries , and Philip J. Padovano of Brannock & Humphries, Tampa; and Brent Bigger of Knopf/Bigger, Tampa, for Appellee.


In this Engle-progeny case,1 Philip Morris USA, Inc., and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. timely appeal the final judgment entered in favor of James Lourie, as personal representative of the Estate of Barbara Ruth Lourie. The tobacco company defendants argue that federal law implicitly preempts state...

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