A Supreme Court justice in Manhattan has dismissed a negligent design claim brought by the family of a deceased smoker even though a different judge had sustained the claim three years earlier.
Justice Emily Jane Goodman cited an intervening decision issued by the New York Court of Appeals in 2008 as the reason for undoing the earlier ruling from Manhattan Justice Charles E. Ramos.
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