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.





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