Here are the most recent docket entries as of 7:20 PM September 11, 2006:
09/11/2006 5754 NOTICE OF APPEAL as to 5733 Order by R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY. Filing fee $ 455, receipt number 1001695. Fee Status: Fee Paid. Parties have been notified. (Ryerson, Paul) (Entered: 09/11/2006)
09/11/2006 5755 NOTICE OF APPEAL as to 5733 Order by BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO […]
BAT and Lorillard have filed their appeals with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
NOTE: BATCo is also appealing Judge Kessler’s Order #904, which dealt with Gulson/Foyle issues and fined BATCo $250,000 for “reckless misconduct and bad faith dealings with the Court.” * This was one of the major […]
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Schwab Defendants Opposition to Collateral Estoppel, September 8, 2006
Note: This was a particularly dirty PDF to translate to text, and I’m not positive I’ve caught all the errors; always double-check the original pdf file before citing. — gb
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
BARBARA SCHWAB et a!., […]
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DOJ Oppostition to Defendants Request for Clarification, September 8, 2006
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA _________________________________________
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
and
TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND, et al.,
Plaintiff-Intervenors,
v.
PHILIP MORRIS USA INC.,
f/k/a PHILIP MORRIS INC., et al.,
Defendants
Civil Action No. 99-CV-02496 (GK)
Next scheduled appearance: None Scheduled
UNITED STATES’ MEMORANDUM IN OPPOSITION TO CERTAIN […]
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ORDER outlining the proposed agenda for the 9/13/2006, September 5, 2006
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
BARBARA SCHWAB et al., individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated,
Plaintiffs,
V.
PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC. et al.,
Defendants.
No. 04-CV-1945 (JBW)
ORDER
JACK B. WEINSTEIN, Senior United States District Judge:
As previously agreed by all parties, argument […]
On September 1, Defendants filed their motion requesting a stay of Judge Kessler’s Final Judgement and Remedial Order until an appeal can make its way through the courts.
The Defendants request that the “status quo” be maintained for the time being due to the “irreparable injury” that would result from implementation of many of Judge Kessler’s […]
Tobacco defendants have filed a tough reply to the DOJ’s objections to their request for an emergency stay. Defendants argue that Judge Kessler’s injunctions for them to a) tell the truth to the public and b) stop racketeering, are much too general; they argue that the non-specificity of these 2 orders makes them impossible […]
EXCERPT from DOJ’s Filing:
Defendants offer no legal support for their motion, and there is no reason for the Court to permit defendants to continue to engage in unlawful activity during the pendency of their anticipated motion for a stay pending appeal.
As the Court observed during the telephone conference initiated by defendants on August 18, 2006, […]
On rare occasions, I did provide the White House with a status report on the case, generally through the White House Counsel’s Office. On those rare occasions, no one at the White House suggested any action or directed any action in the case but merely received information on the status of the case. No one […]
With apparently very little of their allotted time (5 hours) for Depositions left, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington today filed a reply motion in its quest to further depose Associate AG Robert D. McCallum.
Some of the issues here involve
–The DOJ’s seemingly tardy delay (7 months) in responding to CREW’s June 28, 2005 Freedom […]