Legal Opinion
United Food & Commercial Workers Unions, Employers Health & Welfare Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 2000No. 99-13476PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff, the United Food and Commercial Workers Unions and Employers Health and Welfare Fund, is an employee health and welfare benefit plan organized under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. Defendants are eight manufacturers of tobacco products, three tobacco industry trade groups, one public relations firm associated with the tobacco industry, three distributors of tobacco products, and several individuals involved in the tobacco industry. Plaintiff brought suit — under Alabama law — against Defendants, seeking to…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Steamfitters Local Union No. 420 Welfare Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1999
- Oregon Laborers-Employers Health & Welfare Trust Fund v. Philip Morris Inc.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1999
- Gross v. Lowder Rlty. Better Homes & GardensSupreme Court of Alabama · 1986
- Laborers Local 17 Health & Benefit Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
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3Cited by30 opinions
- Allegheny General Hospital Allegheny Valley Hospital Armstrong County Memorial Hospital Canonsburg General Hospital Carbon- Schuylkill Community Hospital, Inc., D/B/A Miners Memorial Medical Center Chambersburg Hospital Forbes Regional Hospital Hazleton--St. Joseph Medical Center Lehigh Valley Hospital Muhlenberg Hospital Center Northeastern Pennsylvania Corporation, D/B/A Hazleton General Hospital Saint Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Saint Luke's -- Allentown Campus St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital Saint Vincent Health Center Waynesboro Hospital v. Philip Morris, Inc. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation B.A.T. Industries, Plc the American Tobacco Company, Inc., C/o Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation Lorillard Tobacco Company Liggett Group, Inc. United States Tobacco Company Tobacco Institute, Inc. The Council for Tobacco Research--Usa, Inc. Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc. Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Allegheny General Hospital Allegheny Valley Hospital Armstrong County Memorial Hospital Canonsburg General Hospital Carbon-Schuylkill Community Hospital, Inc., D/B/A Miners Memorial Medical Center Chambersburg Hospital Forbes Regional Hospital Hazleton--St. Joseph Medical Center Lehigh Valley Hospital Muhlenberg Hospital Center Northeastern Pennsylvania Corporation, D/B/A Hazleton General Hospital Saint Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Saint Luke's--Allentown Campus St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital Saint Vincent Health Center Waynesboro Hospital, in 99-4024, Armstrong County Memorial Hospital Carbon-Schuylkill Community Hospital, Inc., D/B/A Miners Memorial Medical Center Chambersburg Hospital Hazleton--St. Joseph Medical Center Lehigh Valley Hospital Muhlenberg Hospital Center Northeastern Pennsylvania Corporation, D/B/A Hazleton General Hospital Saint Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Saint Luke's-- Allentown Campus St. Luke's Quakertown Hospital Saint Vincent Health Center Waynesboro Hospital, in 00-3101, Allegheny General Hospital Allegheny Valley Hospital Canonsburg General Hospital Forbes Regional Hospital, in 00-3102Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2000
- Graves v. North Eastern Services, Inc.Utah Supreme Court · 2015
- People v. Sturm, Ruger & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2003
- Spain v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2000
- Service Employees International Union Health & Welfare Fund v. Philip Morris Inc.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2001
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