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Supreme Court Allows $50 Million Cigarette Judgement to Stand

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The US Supreme Court has let stand a $50 million judgement against Philip Morris USA.
 
The plainiffs are the family of a cancer victim who died at 57 after being unable to stop smoking. He ultimately switched to "light" cigarettes in the belief they were safer.
 
The Supreme Court had been asked to reconsider the amount of the judegement which had already been reduced from the original $3 billion.

High court lets stand $50 million award to late smoker's family

Bryan College Station Eagle - 3/21/2006 7:40 AM

Richard Boeken, who initially won $3 billion in punitive damages, was 57 when he died in 2002, a year after a California jury found the tobacco company guilty of negligence, misrepresentation, fraud and selling a defective product.
 
The award was reduced to $100 million, then cut in half by an appeals court.
 
Attorneys for Boeken's family had asked justices to consider "Philip Morris's immensely reprehensible, immensely profitable fraud scheme perpetuat
 
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