Cigarette Manufacturers Lose Bid To Remove Injury Case To Federal Court

(October 9, 2019, 9:34 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A man’s lawsuit that alleges that he contracted laryngeal cancer from smoking cigarettes is headed back to an Illinois state court after a federal judge ruled that cigarette manufacturer defendants failed to prove that the smoker fraudulently joined retailer defendants (Martin Smith v. Philip Morris Inc., et al., No. 18-06397, N.D. Ill., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 169092)....