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Supreme Court won't review tobacco award 

Jump to full article: Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, 2006-03-20
Author: GINA HOLLAND ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

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The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider tossing out a $50 million damage award to the family of a two-pack-a-day smoker who died of cancer.

Philip Morris USA, which controls about half the U.S. cigarette market, had asked the justices to declare the award unconstitutionally excessive and to rule that the company should have been shielded from some of the smoker's claims.

Justices declined, without comment.

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