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A Big Win, But One With Implications That May Trouble Corporate America

The Supreme Court’s Decision to Overturn a $79.5 Punitive Damages Verdict Against Philip Morris: A Big Win, But One With Implications That May Trouble Corporate America By ANTHONY J. SEBOK Findlaw Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007

Last week, the United States Supreme Court decided Philip Morris USA v. Williams, the major punitive damages case of this Term. The plaintiff was a smoker, Jesse Williams, who had died of lung cancer. A jury had given Williams’s estate a $79.5 million punitive damages verdict against tobacco company Philip Morris. The Court, however, overturned the verdict. (keep reading)

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