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Jump to full article: AP, 2005-09-20
Author: Erik Schelzig Associated Press
Intro: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - Attorneys for about 1,100 smokers suing tobacco companies are asking the state Supreme Court to restore a consolidated, two-phase trial plan that has been dropped by a judge in Ohio County.
Otherwise, they say, it would take the circuit court 180 years to sort out each case individually.
"An inefficient trial plan would practically deny a substantial portion of these terminally ill plaintiffs their day in court," the smokers’ attorneys said in a filing with the Supreme Court.
The trial had been scheduled to begin in March, but was postponed pending today’s Supreme Court hearing in Huntington.
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