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US court sets aside award in Philip Morris case
Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:15 AM ET


WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court set aside on Tuesday a $79.5 million punitive damages award won by a longtime smoker's widow against Altria Group Inc.'s <MO.N> Philip Morris unit.

By a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled the giant tobacco company could not be punished for harm to other smokers in a case involving Mayola Williams, an Oregon woman whose husband died of lung cancer in 1997 after smoking for more than 40 years.