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Florida Appeals Court Won't Review Decision in Big Tobacco Case 

Louisville, Kentucky-based Brown & Williamson had challenged the Carter verdict by arguing that the statute of limitations on the smoker's rights to sue over injuries had elapsed.

A three-member panel of Florida's First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee agreed. ``The initial complaint was filed more than four years after Grady Carter knew or should have known, with the exercise of due diligence, that he had a smoking- related disease,'' last June's ruling said.

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