Arguing under the threat of disciplinary action, attorneys from two Miami law firms asked the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow them to continue representing flight attendants seeking court review of a $300 million settlement in a secondhand-smoke exposure case.
Some attendants and the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute — a nonprofit organization funded under the 1997 settlement between tobacco companies and flight attendants suffering smoke-related illnesses — asked the court to quash the Third District Court of Appeal decision allowing the attorneys to stay in the case.
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