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 law-suits to seek relief for purported fraud and other tortious conduct by several domestic cigarette manufacturers and related defendants.
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