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RUSS v. PHILIP MORRIS USA

No. 1D17-1847.

254 So.3d 1146 (2018)

Lue Ethel RUSS, as personal representative of the estate of Roosevelt Sutton, Petitioner, v. PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC., and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 5, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Ferraro and Juan P. Bauta, II , of the Ferraro Law Firm, Miami, for Petitioner.

Frances Daphne O'Connor of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP, Washington D.C., and Christopher P. Nease and Connor J. Sears of Shook , Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Kansas City, Missouri, for Respondent Philip Morris USA, Inc.

Charles F. Beall, Jr. , of Moore, Hill & Westmoreland, P.A., Pensacola, and Jason T. Burnette of Jones Day, Atlanta, Georgia, for Respondent R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Lue Ethel Russ petitions for a writ of certiorari, contending the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law when it disqualified the law firm representing her. The suit below is a wrongful death suit against tobacco companies, including the Respondents here: Philip Morris USA, Inc., and R.J. Reynolds. We conclude that the...

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