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<text id=90TT0132>
<title>
Jan. 15, 1990: Business Notes:Litigation
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 15, 1990 Antarctica
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 49
Business Notes
LITIGATION
Stubbed, but Not Out
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<p> Anti-tobacco forces cheered in 1988 when a federal court in
Newark ruled for the first time that a cigarette manufacturer
could be held liable for the death of a smoker. The court
awarded $400,000 to the widowed husband of Rose Cipollone, who
died of cancer in 1984 at 58. But last week a federal appeals
court in Philadelphia threw out the landmark verdict, ruling
that the lower court erred by excluding certain lines of
questioning that might have favored the tobacco company.
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<p> The Cipollone family and other would-be plaintiffs may find
some encouragement in the latest decision. The lower-court
ruling was rather narrow, declaring that the Liggett Group,
which made the Chesterfield and L&M cigarettes Cipollone
favored, violated a so-called express warranty that its
products are safe. But the appeals court opened the way to a
new trial on the broader question of whether the tobacco
company was negligent in marketing cigarettes when it knew of
medical evidence suggesting that smoking is hazardous.
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