District Court, D. Maine March 5, 2010, MDL 1-09-MD-2068 (In Re Light Cigarettes Marketing Sales Practices Litigation)

ORDER ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR APPLICATION OF THE COLLATERAL ESTOPPEL DOCTRINE

JOHN A. WOODCOCK, JR., Chief Judge.

In her landmark 2006 opinion handing down a decisive victory to the Government over the tobacco company defendants, Judge Kessler described the litigation in

United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.