PHILIP MORRIS USA INC., a foreign corporation, and BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, individually and as successor by merger to THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, Appellants, v. JOHN EASTMAN, Appellee.
Case No. 2D03-2357
COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, SECOND DISTRICT
2004 Fla. App.
May 7, 2004, Opinion Filed
NOTICE: [*1] NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION AND, IF FILED, DETERMINED.
DECISION WITHOUT PUBLISHED OPINION
PRIOR HISTORY: Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; Anthony Rondolino, Judge.
COUNSEL: Joseph H. Lang, Jr., and John R. Blue of Carlton Fields, P.A., St. Petersburg; Nancy J. Faggianelli of Carlton Fields, P.A., Tampa; David S. Eggert, Anthony J. Franze, and Sheila B. Scheuerman of Arnold & Porter LLP, Washington, D.C.; and Matthias A. Lydon, Joseph J. Zaknoen, and John W. Christopher of Winston & Strawn LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellant
Philip Morris USA Inc.
Barry Richard of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Tallahassee; Elliot H. Scherker of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami; Robert Parrish of Moseley, Warren, Prichard & Parrish, Jacksonville; and David L. Wallace of Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, New York, New York, for Appellant Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.
Charles P. Schropp of Schropp, Buell & Elligett, P.A., Tampa, and Howard M. Acosta, St. Petersburg, for Appellee.
JUDGES: CASANUEVA and SALCINES, JJ., and DAKAN, STEPHEN L., ASSOCIATE SENIOR JUDGE, Concur.
OPINION:
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed.
CASANUEVA and SALCINES, JJ., and DAKAN, STEPHEN L., ASSOCIATE
[*2] SENIOR JUDGE, Concur.
