In today’s edition of  “Speaking of Justice” LBN host Scott Drake is joined by famed Civil Action Attorney Jan Schlichtmann to discuss last weeks Supreme Court decision on the matter between the State of West Virginia and the tobacco companies. 

Many people and attorney’s are not aware there are still tobacco cases being brought against the firms that produce cigarettes for health and personal injury damage claims.  The West Virginia case centered on an argument to the US Supreme Court that a trial plan that cigarette makers claim will lead to unconstitutional awards of punitive damages had been crafted by the WV courts and they were calling for it to be striken. The US Supreme Court rejected this argument and cleared the way for sick smokers to seek millions, if not billions, of dollars in damages.

Learn more about this important ruling and it’s impact on the many individual smokers cases that are still pending in the court system by clicking here to hear the entire podcast.