A Boston federal judge has narrowed an eight-year-old class action filed by smokers who want cigarette maker Philip Morris USA Inc. to pay for early-stage lung cancer detection.
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper has “cleared the decks for the trial we’ve been anxious to have for some time now,” said lead plaintiffs’ lawyer Steven Phillips of New York-based Phillips & Paolicelli. Last year, the parties jointly proposed a spring 2015 trial in Donovan v. Philip Morris USA.
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