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Altria decision limits punitive awards

The U.S. Supreme Court tightened the constitutional limits on punitive damages, setting aside a $79.5 million award in a smoker case against Altria Group’s Philip Morris USA unit. The justices, voting 5-4 in the case of an Oregon man who died of lung cancer, said a lower court improperly let jurors punish Philip Morris for the ...

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