Legal Opinion
Insolia v. Philip Morris Inc.
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided December 16, 1998No. 97-C-0347-CPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CRABB, District Judge.
This is a civil action for declaratory and monetary relief brought by a group of individuals on behalf of a proposed class of Wisconsin residents, all of whom began smoking before 1964, consumed at least one package of cigarettes a day for twenty years and have been diagnosed with lung cancer. The defendants are the leading manufacturers of tobacco products in this country as well as two industry trade groups, the Council for Tobacco Research and the Tobacco Institute. This court has jurisdiction over plaintiffs’ state law claims of negligence, strict…
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