Fla. Supreme Court Lifts Stay On Husband’s Appeal Of Reversed $157M Engle Verdict

( June 7, 2024, 12:19 PM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After issuing a recent opinion in a tagged case, the Florida Supreme Court on June 6 lifted a two-year stay on an appeal filed by a dead smoker’s widower of an appellate panel’s reversal of a $157 million Engle verdict and ordered two tobacco companies to show cause why it should not quash the reversal and remand the case in light of new precedent....