Tobacco petition for review and answer now available online

Here are the petition for review and answer in Tobacco:

• Petition for Review (filed October 13, 2006)
  
• Answer to Petition for Review (filed October 30, 2006)

My sincere thanks to the reader who forwarded them. Also, for everyone's convenience here are quick links to the Court of Appeal opinions in the two cases:

• In re Tobacco II Cases, 142 Cal.App.4th 891 (2006) (review granted)
  
• Pfizer, Inc. v. Superior Court (Galfano), 141 Cal.App.4th 290 (2006) (review granted)

Comments

[Miranda Kolbe]

How quickly does the Court usually rule on cases where it grants expedited review?

[Kimberly]

The Court has not yet ordered that review itself be expedited. So far, it has only expedited its consideration of the petition. I believe that if review is going to be expedited, we will see another order so indicating. And now that I've had a chance to read the petition for review, I see that it contains no request for expedited review. There must have been some procedural reason for deciding the Tobacco petition so quickly, probably relating to the limited time remaining to decide whether to grant review in Pfizer.