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RHODE ISLAND LABORERS' HEALTH v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.

No. 97-500L.

99 F.Supp.2d 174 (2000)

RHODE ISLAND LABORERS' HEALTH & WELFARE FUND, by and through its TRUSTEES, on behalf of all other similarly situated Health & Welfare Funds in the State of Rhode Island, Plaintiff, v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.; R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation; B.A.T. Rillard Tobacco Company; Liggett Group, Inc.; The American Tobacco Company; The Council for Tobacco Research-U.S.A.; The Tobacco Institute, Inc.; and Hill & Knowlton, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

June 1, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amato A. DeLuca, DeLuca & Weizenbaum, Ltd., Providence, RI, Peter N. Wasylyk, Providence, RI, Wood Roberson Foster, Jr., Jordan Matthew Lewis, Siegel, Brill, Greupner & Duffy, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs.

Steven E. Snow, Brian Clifford Newberry, Partridge, Snow & Hahn, Providence, RI, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on plaintiff's objection to Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lovegreen's Report and Recommendation opining that this Court should grant the motions of defendants to dismiss the complaint in its entirety. The underlying issue in this matter is whether the alleged injury to plaintiff, Rhode Island Laborers' Health and Welfare Fund (the "Fund"), resulting from the defendants' alleged...

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