In re TOBACCO/GOVERNMENTAL HEALTH CARE COSTS LITIGATION.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 12, 2000.
June 12, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
George Mattews Fleming, Jr., George M. Fleming & Associates, LLP, Houston, TX, Charles S. Siegel, Law Offices of Charles S. Siegel, Dallas, TX, Joel S. Perwin, Miami, FL, Patrick Allen Malone, Stein, Mitchell & Mezines, Washington, DC, John Arthur Eaves, Jr., Jackson, MS, for Plaintiffs.
Timothy M. Broas, Winston & Strawn, Washington, DC, Herbert M. Wachtell, David Gruenstein, Ben M. Germana, Maria L. Sachs, Stephen R. DiPrima, John F. Lynch, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, Patrick S. Davies, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, Bruce G. Merritt, DeBevoise & Plimpton, New York City, Joseph M. McLaughlin, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, Robert John Cynkar, Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, Washington, DC, Kenneth N. Bass, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, DC, David M. Bernick, Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, IL, Peter A. Woolson, Robinson, Woolson, O'Connell, LLP, Baltimore, MD, Steven Klugman, DeBevoise & Plimpton, Washington, DC, Michael Asher Schlanger, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Washington, DC, Thomas Mccormack, Chadbourne & Parke, New York City, Paul Sommer Ryerson, Robert Francis McDermott, Jr., Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, DC, Richard L. Gray, Christine L. McDaniel, Gene E. Voights, Jeffrey S. Nelson, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, M. Carter DeLorme, Jared R. Silverman, Winston & Strawn, Washington, DC, Thomas J. Frederick, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.
J. Patrick Glynn, Department of Justice Civil Division/Torts Branch, Washington, DC, for Non Party.
United States District Court, District of Columbia.
OPINION
PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the motions of the Republic of Bolivia and the Republic of Venezuela to remand their lawsuits to the state courts in which they were originally brought and on the motion of the removing defendants for leave to take limited discovery. The removing defendants asserted two jurisdictional bases for the removal of these cases to federal court: (1) that the cases arise under federal...
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