Legal Opinion
Estate of Mahoney v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
District Court, S.D. Iowa
Decided October 15, 2001No. 4:97-CV-10461, 4:97-CV-10753PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
LONGSTAFF, Chief Judge.
The Court has before it plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, filed April 2, 2001. Certain defendants1 filed their resistance memorandum on May 21, 2001, and plaintiffs filed their reply memorandum on June 7, 2001. The Court held a hearing on June 21, 2001 and the motion is fully submitted.
I. BACKGROUND
The named plaintiffs (“plaintiffs”) and members of the proposed Class are individuals or representatives of individuals who smoked cigarettes designed, manufactured, marketed and sold by the defendant cigarette companies (“defendants”) for more than twenty…
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