Post by Logan on Jan 25, 2016 13:50:25 GMT -6
TALLAHASSEE - The full 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to hear a case that focuses on key issues in a Florida Supreme Court decision that spurred thousands of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.
The appeals court last week said it will consider "en banc" a case filed in federal court by the husband of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in 1993.
The case is one of a flood of lawsuits filed in state and federal courts as an outgrowth of a 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision that established crucial findings about the dangers of smoking and misrepresentation by cigarette makers. The lawsuits are known as "Engle progeny" cases.
In the case before the federal appeals court, a district-court jury ruled in favor of Earl Graham, whose wife, Faye, died of lung cancer, and determined fault in such a way that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. would pay $550,000 and that Philip Morris USA would pay $275,000.
Continued at www.gainesville.com/article/20160125/WIRE/160129809/1034?Title=Full-appeals-court-to-weigh-tobacco-legal-issues .
The appeals court last week said it will consider "en banc" a case filed in federal court by the husband of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer in 1993.
The case is one of a flood of lawsuits filed in state and federal courts as an outgrowth of a 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision that established crucial findings about the dangers of smoking and misrepresentation by cigarette makers. The lawsuits are known as "Engle progeny" cases.
In the case before the federal appeals court, a district-court jury ruled in favor of Earl Graham, whose wife, Faye, died of lung cancer, and determined fault in such a way that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. would pay $550,000 and that Philip Morris USA would pay $275,000.
Continued at www.gainesville.com/article/20160125/WIRE/160129809/1034?Title=Full-appeals-court-to-weigh-tobacco-legal-issues .