Pennsylvania attorneys are giving a collective sigh of relief in the wake of the state Supreme Court’s decision last week to block efforts aimed at reinstating a nearly $1 million sanction against a Philadelphia-area defense attorney.

On Dec. 5, a divided Supreme Court declined to hear arguments in the case Sutch v. Roxborough Memorial Hospital, which captured the attention of Pennsylvania lawyers after defense attorney Nancy Raynor was hit with a nearly $1 million sanction for allegedly eliciting an improper reference to smoking in a lung-cancer-related case that caused a mistrial.

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