Jump to full article: Chicagoist, 2005-12-16
Author: Roland Lara
Intro: From the Chicago Tribune: Lawyers for Philip Morris USA contributed $16,800 to help elect a judge who cast a deciding vote in Thursday's Illinois Supreme Court decision favoring the tobacco giant.
The judge also received $1.2 million in campaign money from a group that filed an amicus brief supporting the cigarette-maker.
Yet no one suggested that Judge Lloyd Karmeier recuse himself from a closely watched case in which he voted with three others to strike down a $10.1 billion judgment, handing a huge victory to Philip Morris.
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