['If', 'the', 'Court', 'should', 'find', 'that', 'such', 'claims', 'are', 'preempted', 'as', 'five', 'Federal', 'Courts', 'of', 'Appeal', 'have', 'done', 'and', 'as', 'we', 'think', 'the', 'Supreme', 'Court', 'should', 'do', '—', 'the', 'smoking', 'and', 'health', 'litigation', 'will', 'not', 'disappear,', 'but}the', 'level', 'of', 'activity', 'will', 'likely', 'be', 'diminished.', 'Faced', 'with', 'an', 'inability', 'to', 'assert', 'most', 'post-1965', 'claims,', 'few', 'plaintiffs’', 'lawyers', 'will,', 'in', 'my', 'opinion,', 'find', 'an', 'incentive', 'for', 'initiating', 'new', 'cases.', 'Accordingly,', '|', 'the', 'current', 'level', 'of', '50', 'cases,', 'down', 'from', 'a', 'high', 'in', '1986', 'of', '151', 'cases,', 'will', 'probably', 'decline', 'further.', 'What', 'do', 'I', 'mean', 'by', '“winning', 'in', 'the', 'Supreme', 'Court.”', 'There', 'are', 'several', 'issues', 'pending', 'in', 'the', 'Supreme', 'Court.', 'The', 'first', 'is', 'whether', 'the', 'Labelling', 'Act', 'preempts', 'any', 'tort', 'claims.', 'If', 'so,', 'then', 'what', 'claims', 'are', 'preempted?', '.', 'Core', 'preemption', '—', 'failure', 'to', 'warn.', 'Claims', 'based', 'on', 'traditional', 'advertising', '—', 'i.é.,', '“happy,', 'healthy', 'people', 'smoking.”', 'Claims', 'based', 'on', 'intentional', 'misrepresentation', '—', 'e.g.,', 'fraud.', 'This', 'is', 'the', 'area', 'Tribe', 'focused', 'on.', 'Of', 'course,', 'we', 'want', 'to', 'win', 'all', 'of', 'these', 'issues,', 'but', 'I', 'would', 'consider', 'it', 'a', 'major', 'victory', 'if', 'we', 'win', 'core', 'preemption.', 'A', 'loss', 'on', 'intentional', 'misrepresentation', 'would', 'not', 'be', 'significant,', 'because:', '1.', 'The', 'industry', 'hasn’t', 'engaged', 'in', 'fraudulent', 'conduct.', '2.', 'The', 'plaintiff', 'would', 'have', 'the', 'difficult', 'burden', 'of', 'proving', 'that:', 'The', 'company', 'made', 'a', 'false', 'statement;', 'with', 'the', 'intent', 'to', 'deceive;', '$991500052']