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NATIONAL COMM. TO PRESERVE SOCIAL v. PHILIP MORRIS

No. 08 CV 2021 (RJD).

601 F.Supp.2d 505 (2009)

NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE and Medicare Rights Center, and James Mokeler, on behalf of Medicare, Plaintiffs, v. PHILIP MORRIS USA INC., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., individually and as successor by merger to Brown & Williamson USA, Inc., and The American Tobacco Co., Lorillard Tobacco Co., and Liggett Group, LLC, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

March 5, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah B. McIlhenny, Mark B. Hutton, Hutton & Hutton Law Firm, LLC, Wichita, KS, Jonathan Watson Cuneo, Robert J. Cynkar, Cuneo, Gilbert & Laduca LLP, Washington, DC, David Buckner, Thomas Ronzetti, Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton, Michael S. Olin, Michael S. Olin, P.A., Richard Rosenthal, The Law Offices of Richard B. Rosenthal, P.A., Miami, FL, Kevin T. Peters, Todd & Weld LLP, Boston, MA, for Plaintiffs.

Robert McCarter, Arnold & Porter, Washington, DC, Harold Keith Gordon, Michael A. Carvin, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Alan Mansfield, Stephen L. Saxl, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Julie R. Fischer, Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, LLP, Kent A. Yalowitz, Arnold & Porter LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM & ORDER

DEARIE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, two taxpayer advocacy groups and a Medicare recipient diagnosed with lung cancer, bring this action under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1395y(b) ("MSP"), against several major producers of tobacco products. Suing on behalf of Medicare, plaintiffs seek to recover expenditures made from the Medicare Trust Fund to cover the costs of treating the tobacco-related illnesses of Medicare...

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