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Philip Morris USA v. Williams
No. 05-1256 Title:

Philip Morris USA v. Mayola Williams

Subject:

Product Liability, Remedies, Punitive Damages, Due Process, Personal Injury & Tort, Wrongful Death, Tobacco

Questions:

1. Whether, in reviewing a jury's award of punitive damages, an appellate court's conclusion that a defendant's, conduct was highly reprehensible and analogous to a crime can "override" the constitutional requirement that punitive damages be reasonably related to the plaintiffs harm.
   
   
2. Whether due process permits a jury to punish a defendant for the effects of its conduct on non-parties.

Decisions:

• Oregon Supreme Court, Opinion Filed: February 2, 2006
• United States Supreme Court, Cert. Granted: May 30, 2006

Resources:

• Docket Sheet From the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Northwestern University - Medill School of Journalism: On the Docket

Briefs:

    Parties

Petition Phase

• Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
  
• Brief in Opposition
  
• Petitioner's Reply Brief
  
  Merits Phase
  
• Brief for Petitioner
  
• Brief for Respondent - Coming Soon
  
  Amici Supporting Petitioner
• Amici Brief of A. Mitchell Polinsky, et al.
• Amicus Brief of the Chamber of Commerce
• Amici Brief of the Washington Legal Foundation, et al.
• Amici Brief of the National Ass'n of Manufacturers, et al.
  
• Amicus Brief of the American Tort Reform Association
  
  Amici Supporting Respondent
• Amici Brief of Professors
• Amici Brief of Professors and Scholars
• Amici Brief of the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, et al.
• Amicus Brief of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice

Counsel of Record

For Petitioner Philip Morris USA:

Andrew L. Frey
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP
New York, NY

For Respondent Mayola Williams:

Robert S. Peck
Center for Const. Litigation
Washington, DC

 

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