Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 2/28/18

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Monday the writ of certiorari request from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. involving a federal judgment in favor of a Connecticut woman who claimed she got laryngeal cancer from smoking Salem Kings for 25 years. A three-judge panel for the Second Circuit Court sent the case back July 7 to the trial court for further consideration of whether to increase punitive damages. On Aug. 30, the full appeals court declined to hear the appeal.

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