Legal Opinion
Dianne Castano v. The American Tobacco Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 23, 1996No. 95-30725PublishedCited by 854 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
In what may be the largest class action ever attempted in federal court, the district court in this case embarked “on a road certainly less traveled, if ever taken at all,” Castano v. American Tobacco Co., 160 F.R.D. 544, 560 (E.D.La.1995) (citing EDWARD C. Latham, The Poetry of Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” 105 (1969)), and entered a class certification order. The court defined the class as:(a) All nicotine-dependent persons in the United States ... who have purchased and smoked cigarettes manufactured by the defendants;(b) the estates, representatives, and…
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