Supreme ‘no-decision’ a win for tobacco plaintiff ($$) 

"It's over," said Robert S. Peck, president of the Center for Constitutional Litigation, who represented the plaintiff before the high court. "It's an interesting coincidence that the Court decision came ten years and one day after the jury handed down its verdict in this case.

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Attorneys involved in tobacco litigation praised the outcome. "The Oregon Supreme Court had rightly held that the degree of Philip Morris' reprehensibility was so severe that due process provided for a ratio beyond an artificial limit of single digits," said Edward L. Sweda, Jr., senior attorney for the Tobacco Products Liability Project at Northeastern University School of Law. "I am especially delighted that the Williams family has finally achieved victory in its attempt to hold Philip Morris accountable in a court of law for its reprehensible misconduct. "

"This is a great victory for the people whose health has suffered from decades of Big Tobacco's lies and deception all in the name of profits," said Shannon McLin Carlyle, shareholder at The Carlyle Appellate Law Firm in Orlando.

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