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remanding appeal following California Supreme Court ruling on certified questions
Summary of this case from Pooshs v. Phillip Morris USA, Inc.Opinion
Nos. 03-55780, 03-56018.
Argued and Submitted December 10, 2004.
Filed April 3, 2007.
Martin Louis Stanley, Santa Monica, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Maria Cannata.
Frances M. Phares, Baum Hedlund, PC, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel U. Smith, Law Office of Daniel U. Smith, Kentfield, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Leslie J. Grisham.
Murry R. Garnick, Arnold Porter, LLP, Washington, DC; Maurice A. Leiter, Arnold Porter, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Daniel P. Collins, Munger Tolles Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Fred D. Heather, Amy W. Schulman, DLA Piper, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Sheila B. Schuerman, Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, PA, for defendant-appellee Philip Morris.
Paul Crist, Jones Day, Cleveland, OH; Peter N. Larson, Jones Day, San Francisco, CA, for defendant-appellee Brown Williamson.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; Stephen V. Wilson, District Judge, Presiding, Audrey B. Collins, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. Nos. CV-02-07930-SVW, CV-02-08026-ABC.
Before JEROME FARRIS, DOROTHY W. NELSON, and RONALD M. GOULD, Circuit Judges.
ORDER
In light of the California Supreme Court's decision in Grisham v. Philip Morris USA, Inc., 40 Cal.4th 623, 54 Cal. Rptr.3d 735, 151 P.3d 1151 (2007), and in light of the Joint Report of the Parties Re: Decision of the California Supreme Court on the Certified Questions, the judgments of the district court are VACATED and we REMAND to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the opinion of the California Supreme Court. In light of the Joint Report of the Parties Re: Decision of the California Supreme Court on the Certified Questions, we also VACATE our previous order of March 16, 2007 calling for supplemental briefing from the parties in Cannata v. Philip Morris, 03-56018.