Florida Panel Holds Arguments In Dispute Over $3M Tobacco Verdict

(December 17, 2019, 11:04 AM EST) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Oral arguments were held Dec. 10 in Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal in a dispute in which R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. maintains that eight “otherwise qualified” jurors were unfairly stricken for their opinion that smokers “bear some responsibility for their choices” (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Jacqueline Burgess, Personal Representative of the Estate of Johnny Burgess, No. 4D18-3014, Fla. App., 4th Dist.)....