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PHILIP MORRIS INC. v. HARSHBARGER

Civil Action No. 95-12574-GAO.

946 F.Supp. 1067 (1996)

PHILIP MORRIS INCORPORATED; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; Lorillard Tobacco Company; and Liggett Group Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Scott HARSHBARGER, Attorney General of Massachusetts, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

November 22, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall Simonds, Thomas J. Griffin, Jr., Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Boston, MA, Herbert M. Wachtell, Peter C. Hein, Ben M. Germana, Barbara Robbins, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY, for Philip Morris, Inc.

Donald J. Wood, Connarton, Wood & Callahan, Boston, MA, Robert F. McDermott, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

John H. Henn, David R. Geiger, Mark D. Rosen, Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, MA, Stephen D. McCormick, Kirkland and Ellis, Chicago, IL, Majorie Press Lindblom, Kirkland & Ellis, New York, NY, David Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.

Gael Mahony, Hill & Barlow, Boston, MA, Gene E. Voigts, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, for Lorillard Tobacco Company.

Samuel Adams, Joseph J. Leghorn, Alexis S. Hamdan, Warner & Stackpole, Boston, MA, James V. Kearney, Latham & Watkins, New York, NY, James A. Cherney, Latham & Watkins, Chicago, IL, for Liggett Group, Inc.

Thomas A. Barnico, Attorney General's Office, Boston, MA, for Scott Harshbarger.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

O'TOOLE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, who are manufacturers of cigarettes, brought this action to obtain declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendant attorney general's threat to sue them to recover certain expenses paid by Massachusetts under its Medicaid program. The attorney general has moved to dismiss the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and for failure to state a claim upon which relief can...

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