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HAWAII HEALTH & WELFARE TRUST v. PHILLIP MORRIS, INC.

Civil No. 97-00833 SPK.

52 F.Supp.2d 1196 (1999)

HAWAII HEALTH & WELFARE TRUST FUND FOR OPERATING ENGINEERS, on behalf of itself and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; B.A.T. Industries P.L.C.; Lorillard Tobacco Company; Liggett Group, Inc.; The American Tobacco Company; The Council for Tobacco Research — U.S.A., Inc.; The Tobacco Institute, Inc., and Hill Knowlton, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Hawaii.

January 25, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael C. Spencer (argued), Millberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, New York City, Theodore Franklin, Van Bourg Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld, Oakland, CA, Michael O'Connor, Tam O'Connor Henderson Taira & Yamauchi, Honolulu, HI.

Mark J. Bennett, McCorriston Miho Miller & Mukai, Honolulu, HI, Daniel P. Collins (argued), Munger Tolles & Olson, Los Angeles, CA, for Phillip Morris, Inc.

Dale W. Lee, Kobayashi Sugita & Goda, Honolulu, HI, for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

Lois Yamaguchi, Fukunaga Matayoshi Hershey & Ching, Honolulu, HI, for Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp., American Tobacco Co., Inc.

Martin Anderosn, Laurence Gay, Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, Honolulu, HI, for Lorillard Tobacco Co.

James Kawachika, Honolulu, HI, for Liggett Group, Inc.

John Komeiji, Wantanabe Ing & Kawashima, Honolulu, HI, for the Council for Tobacco Research.

Sidney K. Ayabe, Ayabe Chong Nishimoto Sia & Nakamura, Honolulu, HI, for Hill & Knowlton, Inc.

ORDER AMENDING ORDER OF JANUARY 21, 1999 GRANTING NOTION TO DISMISS

KING, District Judge.

The Court's Order Granting Defendants' Motion to Dismiss is amended to add the phrase "antitrust causes of action fail as well." to the last line of page 8 of the version of the Order filed January 21, 1999. As amended, the Order is as follow:

INTRODUCTION

This is a class action brought against the major cigarette manufacturers, tobacco trade...

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