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R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. v. NEFF

No. 4D19-2646.

325 So.3d 872 (2021)

R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY and Philip Morris USA Inc., Appellants, v. Deborah NEFF, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothy Milinkovich, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 14, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Val Leppert and William L. Durham II of King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, Georgia, for appellant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Geoffrey J. Michael and David M. Menichetti of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellant Philip Morris USA Inc.

Scott Schlesinger , Jonathan Gdanski , Steven Hammer , and Brittany Barron of Schlesinger Law Offices, Fort Lauderdale, and Thomas J. Seider and Celene H. Humphries of Brannock Humphries & Berman, Tampa, for appellee.

In this case, we once again review the actions of an attorney who made several improper arguments to the jury during closing argument. Once again, we have a trial court that failed to sustain contemporaneous objections to several of these improper arguments. And once again, we reverse and remand due to these improper arguments made during...

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