PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. v. WILLIAMS, personal representative of the ESTATE OF WILLIAMS, DECEASED

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Syllabus
PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. v. WILLIAMS, personal
representative of the ESTATE OF WILLIAMS,
DECEASED
certiorari to the supreme court of oregon
No. 07–1216. Argued December 3, 2008—Decided March 31, 2009
Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 344 Ore. 45, 176 P. 3d 1255.
Stephen M. Shapiro argued the cause for petitioner. With
him on the briefs were Andrew L. Frey, Andrew H. Scha
piro, Lauren R. Goldman, Kenneth S. Geller, Miguel A. Es
trada, 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 Ore
gon 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 Sande
fur 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 Proce
dure 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, As
sistant Attorney General, and by the Attorneys General for their respec
tive States as follows: Joseph R. Biden III of Delaware, Douglas F.
Gansler of Maryland, Jim Hood of Mississippi, Gary King of New Mexico,

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Per Curiam
Per Curiam.
The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently
granted.
It is so ordered.
Henry D. McMaster of South Carolina, Robert E. Cooper, Jr., of Tennessee,
and Bruce A. Salzburg of Wyoming; for the Criminal Justice Legal Foun
dation by Kent S. Scheidegger; and for Retired Oregon Supreme Court
Justice Susan M. Leeson et al. by Scott A. Shorr and Robert K. Udziela.