Florida Supreme Court Won’t Review $37M Verdict’s Reversal For Improper Closings

Mealey's (April 21, 2022, 1:39 PM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Supreme Court on April 19 declined to accept jurisdiction over a petition for review of an appellate panel’s reversal of a $37 million judgment in an Engle progeny case against two tobacco companies in which the plaintiffs’ lawyers was found to have made improper and inflammatory closing arguments comparing the companies to Big Brother from George Orwell’s “1984” and Oscar Wilde’s character Dorian Gray....