Starling v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

ORDER

ROY B. DALTON, JR., District Judge.

This cause is before the Court on the following:

1) Defendants’ Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings and Incorporated Memorandum of Law (Doc. No. 34) (“Motion”), filed on July 13, 2011; and

2) Joint Motion to Stay Proceedings (Doc. No. 50), filed on August 31, 2011.

Resolution of Defendants’ Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings requires this Court to examine Florida’s Wrongful Death Act,1 how Florida District Courts of Appeal have interpreted the Act’s procedural requirements,2 and how the Florida Supreme Court would likely interpret the Act’s…