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• Tobacco company posts appeal bond in lawsuit 

Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. has posted a $4.25 million bond while it appeals a jury award in a lawsuit filed by the family of a woman who died after decades of smoking.

U.S. District Judge James Moody ruled Thursday that the company does not have to pay the $4.25 million judgment while its appeal is pending, but must assure that the money is available to be paid if the appeal goes against the company.

On May 23, a federal jury in Little Rock ruled that Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. should pay $4.25 million in actual damages plus $15 million in punitive damages for the smoking-related death of Mary Jane Boerner of North Little Rock, Ark.

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