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State high court to decide if Carter filed suit too late
Jump to full article: Florida Times-Union, 1999-11-01
Author: Vivian Wakefield /Times-Union staff writer
Intro: In August 1996, a jury awarded Grady Carter more than $700,000 dollars in a cigarette-smoking liability lawsuit.
Three years later, the Orange Park man hasn't received a dime from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., which successfully fought the jury's decision before the 1st District Court of Appeal.
Now Carter is taking his case before Florida's highest court in hopes of bringing to an end a legal battle that actually started in 1995. Today, lawyers for Carter and Brown & Williamson will argue before the Florida Supreme Court the merits
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