California Court of Appeal

SOUDERS v. PHILIP MORRIS INC., B141519

Under amended Civil Code section 1714.45, which eliminated the statutory immunity for tobacco products from products liability actions, tobacco companies are not immune from claims accruing after its effective date regardless of when the smoking occurred.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2001
• Published 03/07/2001

Judges

• PERLUSS, J.*

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Weinreb, Weinreb & Mandell, Robert J. Mandell, Northridge, and Mara E.J. Burnett;  James V. Jordan and Michael R. Hambly for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Arnold & Porter, Maurice A. Leiter, James D. Layden, Navid Yadegar, Ronald C. Redcay, James F. Speyer, John Carlton and Angel L. Tang, Los Angeles;  Sedgwick, Detert Moran & Arnold, Kevin Robert Costello, Frederick Baker and Ralph Campillo, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents., Carrie-Lee Coke for California Manufacturers and Technology Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.