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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
  Appeals court stays tobacco racketeering ruling (Reuters)

A woman smokes a cigarette in an undated file photo. A Philip Morris attorney on Tuesday challenged a $79.5 million punitive damages award to a former smoker's widow arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court the tobacco giant could not be punished for harm to other smokers. (File/Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday put on hold sanctions imposed on cigarette makers by a judge who had found they violated racketeering laws in a decades-long conspiracy to hide the dangers of smoking.


 
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