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Big Tobacco Suffers Major Setbacks in Florida Litigation 

Big Tobacco has suffered two major losses in its ongoing defense of hundreds of individual smokers' claims filed against it in the state of Florida.

First, in the $1 billion law suit filed by J.B. Harris on behalf of Gloria Tucker against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and others, the tobacco companies conceded that in cases where cigarette makers, Liggett Group, LLC and Vector Group, Ltd., are also named as defendants, these cases must be brought in Florida state court, rather than in federal court, since the federal courts have no jurisdiction over these companies. Earlier the tobacco giants had tried to remove Tucker's case to the United States District Court in Miami (07-21740-Civ-Gold).

Second, the United States Supreme Court has rejected its petition for relief from the Florida Supreme Court's landmark ruling in the case of Engle v. Liggett . . .

For more information contact J.B. Harris, P.A. at www.suebigtobacco.net

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