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WALKER v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

Nos. 12-13500, 12-14731.

728 F.3d 1297 (2013)

Alvin WALKER, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Albert Walker, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, individually and as successor by merger to the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation and the American Tobacco Company, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Appellant. George Duke, III, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sarah Duke, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, individually and as successor by merger to the Brown & Williamson Corporation and the American Tobacco Company, a foreign corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 6, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn E. Barnett , Kenneth S. Byrd , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, Janna M. Blasingame , Lydia Jenna Strom , Norwood Wilner , Stephanie J. Hartley , Richard Lantinberg , The Wilner Firm PA, Charles Easa Farah, Jr. , Eddie Easa Farah , Farah & Farah, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Jennifer Gross , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Samuel Issacharoff , New York University School of Law, New York, NY, Sarah Robin London , Jahan Crawford Reza Sagafi , Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, John Stewart Mills , Courtney Rebecca Brewer , The Mills Firm, Tallahassee, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Stephanie Ethel Parker , Jason Todd Burnette , John F. Yarber , Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz , King & Spalding, LLP, Paul D. Clement , Bancroft, PLLC, Gregory G. Katsas , Jones Day, Washington, DC, Charles Richard Allan Morse , Jones Day, New York, NY, Robert B. Parrish , Jeffrey Alan Yarbrough , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before PRYOR and HILL, Circuit Judges, and HALL, District Judge.

PRYOR, Circuit Judge:

This appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company of money judgments in favor of the survivors of two smokers requires us to decide whether a decision of the Supreme Court of Florida in an earlier class action is entitled to full faith and credit in federal court. Florida smokers and their survivors filed in state court a class action against the major tobacco companies that manufacture cigarettes in the United States. In the first phase of the class...

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