(May 1, 2019, 9:23 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois on April 24 found that tobacco retailers were not fraudulently joined to a case brought against both retailers and manufacturers and, because the retailer defendants destroyed complete diversity among the parties, the plaintiff’s motion to remand to state court was appropriate (Sydney M. Mitchell v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., No. 18-cv-7739, N.D. Ill., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69313)....