Legal Opinion
Engle Cases 4432 Individual Tobacco v. Various Tobacco Companies
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 10, 2014No. 13-10839, 13-12901, 13-14302PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
These consolidated appeals are yet another chapter in the ongoing tobacco litigation that began as a class action in Florida courts more than two decades ago and has since swollen the federal docket with thousands of individual cases. Today we are asked to decide the fate of 588 personal injury cases filed on behalf of purportedly living cigarette smokers who, as it turns out, were dead at the time of filing (a group we shall call the “predeceased plaintiffs”), 160 loss of consortium cases filed on behalf of spouses and children 1 of these predeceased plaintiffs, and…
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