Judge Denies Dead Smoker’s Daughter’s Bid To Renew Claims Against Local Retailer

(November 10, 2023, 11:48 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — A Missouri federal judge denied a dead smoker’s daughter’s motion for leave to amend her wrongful death lawsuit against a tobacco company to restore claims against a local retailer and remand the suit to state court, writing that the daughter failed to provide new evidence showing that the retailer was wrongly dismissed as an “innocent seller.”...