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SOWERS v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.

Nos. 18-11901; 18-11902.

975 F.3d 1112 (2020)

Mary SOWERS, as personal representative of the Estate of Charles Sowers, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, individually and as successor by merger to the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation and The American Tobacco Company, Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee, Philip Morris USA, Inc., et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 15, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Heimann , Robert J. Nelson , Kevin R. Budner , Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Sarah Robin London , Martin D. Quinones , Todd A. Walburg , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA, Frederick C. Baker , Sara Orpha Couch , Rebecca M. Deupree , Robert Turner Haefele , Mathew Jasinski , James William Ledlie , Patrick Graham Maiden , Donald Alan Migliori , Lance V. Oliver , Joseph F. Rice , Lisa M. Saltzburg , Elizabeth S. Smith , Motley Rice, LLC, Mt Pleasant, SC, Charles Easa Farah, Jr. , Farah & Farah, PA, Stephanie J. Hartley , Richard Lantinberg , Janna Blasingame McNicholas , Norwood Wilner , The Wilner Firm, PA, Jacksonville, FL, Nathan David Finch , Motley Rice, LLC, Washington, DC, Andrew R. Kaufman , John T. Spragens , Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, Nashville, TN, Michael J. Pendell , Motley Rice, LLC, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Stephanie Ethel Parker , Emily C. Baker , Jason Todd Burnette , Michael F. Stoer , Jones Day, Atlanta, GA, Dana G. Bradford, II , Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Robert B. Parrish , Joseph W. Prichard, Jr. , David C. Reeves , Jeffrey Alan Yarbrough , Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Jacksonville, FL, Joshua Reuben Brown , Greenberg Traurig, PA, Orlando, FL, Edward M. Carter , Jones Day, Columbus, OH, Timothy James Fiorta , Jones Day, Cleveland, OH, Jose Isasi, II , Jones Day, Chicago, IL, Terri Lynn Parker , Shook Hardy & Bacon, LLP, Tampa, FL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before BRANCH, TJOFLAT, and ED CARNES, Circuit Judges.

Charles Sowers smoked one to three packs of cigarettes a day for about fifty years, and it killed him. He died of lung cancer caused by smoking cigarettes. Mary Sowers, his widow and the representative of his estate, sued the manufacturer of the cigarettes, R.J. Reynolds, under Florida's wrongful death statute. A jury found...

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