Tackling a pair of cases with billion-dollar implications, the justices of the California Supreme Court seemed ready to side with sick and dying smokers who say a state law immunizing tobacco companies doesn’t close the door on their claims.
State legislators repealed that immunity by statute on Jan. 1, 1998, and gave smokers and their survivors the right to seek damages. But in the two cases before the high court Tuesday, tobacco companies prevailed in the trial courts by invoking the immunity clause.
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