The Florida Supreme Court ruled Feb. 27 that it would not take up appeals in two tobacco litigation cases that it initially accepted for review and which awarded more than a million dollars in jury verdicts against R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
In two per curium decisions the Florida high court said it had exercised its discretion and discharged jurisdiction in the cases, dismissing reviews of the rulings by Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Brown and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Sherman. Those rulings upheld two verdicts of $600,000 and $775,000, respectively, against the tobacco company. The Florida Supreme Court’s rulings area here and here.
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