Legal Opinion
Laborers Local 17 Health & Benefit Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 27, 1998No. 97 Civ. 4550(SAS), 97 Civ. 4676(SAS)PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.
I. Introduction
In June of 1997, plaintiffs, consisting of several employee benefit trust funds (“the Funds”), filed these parallel class-action lawsuits to seek relief for purported fraud and other tortious conduct by several domestic cigarette manufacturers and related defendants. 1 B.A.T. Industries p.l.c. (“BAT Industries”) is one of the defendants named in the Complaint, along with one of BAT Industries’ subsidiaries, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (“B & W’).
The ease revolves around the central allegation that for several decades,…
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