R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Shewry

423 F.3d 906 R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY; Lorillard Tobacco Company; R.J. Reynolds Smoke Shop, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Sandra SHEWRY, Director of the California Department of Health Services; Dileep G. Bal, Acting Chief of the Tobacco Control Section of the California Department of Health Services; State of California, Defendants-Appellees. No. 03-16535. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 10, 2004. Filed September 28, 2004. Amended September 9, 2005. H. Joseph Escher III, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiffs-appellants. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and R.J. Reynolds Smoke Shop, Inc., and Shannon L. Spangler and M. Kevin Underhill, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, San Francisco, CA, for plaintiff-appellant Lorillard Tobacco Company. Robert M. O'Neil and J. Joshua Wheeler, Charlottesville, VA, for amici curiae Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and the Media Institute, in support of the plaintiffs-appellants. Daniel J. Popeo and Richard A. Samp, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Washington Legal Foundation, in support of the plaintiffs-appellants. Karen Leaf, Deputy…