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133005P.pdf   07/30/2014  Christi Thompson  v.  R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-3005
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken, Circuit Judge] 
   Civil case - Products liability. Under Missouri's law of "one recovery," 
   where plaintiff's decedent brought a state court products liability action 
   against the tobacco company defendants and recovered a judgment for his 
   injuries, he no longer had viable cause of action against the tobacco 
   companies at the time of his death, and is family is barred from bringing 
   such a claim now; there was no basis for a claim against the Missouri 
   retail defendants and the district court did not err in finding they had 
   been fraudulently joined.