Rhode Island Laborers' Health & Welfare Fund Ex Rel. Trustees v. Philip Morris, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on plaintiff’s objection to Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lovegreen’s Report and Recommendation opining that this Court should grant the motions of defendants to dismiss the complaint in its entirety. The underlying issue in this matter is whether the alleged injury to plaintiff, Rhode Island Laborers’ Health and Welfare Fund (the “Fund”), resulting from the defendants’ alleged wrongdoing is proximate enough to permit the bringing of a class action against the tobacco companies and their lobbying and public relations agents…