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Court won't review $50 million award against Philip Morris
Jump to full article: Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, 2006-03-21
Author: From Wire and Staff Reports
Intro: The Supreme Court refused yesterday to consider tossing out a $50 million damage award to the family of a two-pack-a-day smoker who died of cancer. . . .
But a lawyer for Philip Morris USA said the company is optimistic.
"The trend in the California cases has been a positive one for the company, since it lost several cases in the late 1990s," said Steve Rissman, an attorney for the company. "Since then, the company has won five consecutive cases at trial in California. . . .
"While the company would have preferred that the U.S. Supreme Court have taken the case, we recognize that the court takes only a very small percentage of the appeals presented to it in any given year and that a denial of the review is not a ruling on the merits," he said.
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