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State supreme court says has not reached a decision whether it will rehear 'light' cigarette case after throwing out $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris.
Jump to full article: Reuters, 2006-03-27
Intro: The Illinois Supreme Court still has not decided whether it will rehear a case in which it threw out a $10.1 billion verdict against Philip Morris USA, a court spokeswoman said Monday.
The case, in which the Altria Group Inc. unit was accused of defrauding consumers into thinking "light" cigarettes were safer than regular smokes, had been on the court's rehearing docket for its March term.
The court issued a comment on that docket Monday, disposing of another case, but did not issue a decision on whether it would rehear the "lights" case.
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