Keystone Tobacco Co. v. United States Tobacco Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court for consideration of Plaintiffs’ Emergency Motion to Preclude Settlement Discussions with Individual Plaintiffs, filed on November 5, 2002. In their motion, plaintiffs assert that the defendants in this action (collectively, “UST”) sought to take advantage of the interim period between the oral argument of the class certification motion and the Court’s decision on that motion to improperly approach individual putative class members in an attempt to settle the case with as many direct purchasers as possible…