CIPOLLONE, individually and as executor of the ESTATE OF CIPOLLONE
v.
LIGGETT GROUP, INC., et al.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 8, 1991.
Reargued January 13, 1992.
Decided June 24, 1992
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Laurence H. Tribe reargued the cause for petitioner. Marc Z. Edell argued the cause for petitioner on the original argument. With them on the briefs was Alan M. Darnell.
H. Bartow Farr III reargued the cause for respondents. With him on the briefs was Richard G. Taranto.*
Stevens, J., announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, III, and IV, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White, Blackmun, O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter, JJ., joined, and an opinion with respect to Parts V and VI, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and White and O'Connor, JJ., joined. Blackmun, J., filed an opinion concurring in part, concurring in the judgment in part, and dissenting in part, in which Kennedy and Souter, JJ., joined, p. 531. Scalia, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment in part and dissenting in part, in which Thomas, J., joined, p. 544.
Supreme Court of United States.
Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court, except as to Parts V and VI.
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