New Phase for Tobacco Fight/Companies Take Complaint over Judge's Ruling in Flihgt Attendant's Case to Appeals Court
Law.com
Date: Friday, September 14, 2001
Author: Miami Daily Business Review
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The next chapter in the saga of more than 3,000 flight attendants who claim that secondhand smoke made them sick is about to unfold in a state appeals court.

That's where lawyers for Big Tobacco are scheduled today to seek to overturn a ruling issued in October by Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Robert Kaye that essentially says that when the flight attendants' cases go to trial, their lawyers will not have to rehash all of the issues relating to strict liability, negligence and breach of warranty.