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Daily Business Review: “It was a 50-year conspiracy where the tobacco companies deliberately and consciously lied. All the while, they knew people were dying.”

Millions of dollars in corporate campaign spending led to the election of sympathetic judges who upheld the law after it had been struck down earlier.

InjuryBoard.com: A self-described conservative attorney says caps on medical negligence damage awards would allow insurance companies “to usurp the will of a jury of one’s peers in favor of an artificial limit set by a politician who knows nothing about the intricacies of a case.”

Baltimore Sun: The firm routinely took unpaid-debt cases to the National Arbitration Forum, which billed itself as neutral ground for disputes, even though it was connected through a common ownership structure. Arbitrators almost always ruled in favor of creditors.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that the constitutional right to a trial by jury “includes the right to have a jury determine the amount of…damages, if any…”

Daily Business Review: A Florida appeals court has upheld an award of $24.8 million in a products liability case against cigarette makers Philip Morris USA, Brown & Williamson and Liggett Group.

San Mateo Daily Times: A California woman has filed suit against Bayer Phamaceuticals, claiming she suffered gallbladder failure as a result of taking the company’s Yasmin birth control pills.