PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. v. WILLIAMS, personal representative of the ESTATE OF WILLIAMS, DECEASED
No. 07-1216.
Argued December 3, 2008
Decided March 31, 2009
Stephen M. Shapiro argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Andrew L. Frey, Andrew H. Schapiro, Lauren R. Goldman, Kenneth S. Geller, Miguel A. Estrada, Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr., David J. Debold, Kenneth S. Geller, William F. Gary, and Sharon A. Rudnick.
Robert S. Peck argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were James S. Coon, Raymond F. Thomas, William A. Gaylord, Charles S. Tauman, Maureen Leonard, and Kathryn H. Clarke
Briefs of amici curiae urging reversal were filed for Associated Oregon Industries et al. by Thomas W. Brown and Joel S. DeVore; for the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by Jonathan D. Hacker, Irving L. Gornstein, Robin S. Conrad, and Amar D. Sarwal; for the National Association of Manufacturers by Francis R. Ortiz, Jan S. Amundson, and Quentin Riegel; for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies by Sheila L. Birnbaum, Douglas W. Dunham, and Ellen P. Quackenbos; for the Pacific Legal Foundation by Timothy Sandefur and Deborah J. La Fetra; and for the Washington Legal Foundation et al. by Arvin Maskin, Konrad Cailteux, Daniel J. Popeo, and Paul D. Kamenar.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed for Federal Procedure Scholars by Erwin Chemerinsky; for Public Justice, P. C., et al. by Elizabeth J. Cabraser and Steven E. Fineman; and for the Oregon Trial Lawyers Association by Meagan A Flynn.
Briefs of amici curiae were filed for the State of Oregon et al. by Hardy Myers, Attorney General of Oregon, Peter Shepherd, Deputy Attorney General, Mary H. Williams, Solicitor General, and Janet A Metcalf, Assistant Attorney General, and by the Attorneys General for their respective States as follows: Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Douglas F. Gansler of Maryland, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Gary King of New Mexico, Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee, and Bruce A. Salzburg of Wyoming; for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation by Kent S. Scheidegger; and for Retired Oregon Supreme Court Justice Susan M. Leeson et al. by Scott A. Shorr and Robert K. Udziela.
Per Curiam.
The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
It is so ordered.
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