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To arrange an
interview with a CCL attorney or request an attorney to appear on a news program, please contact Nancy Dugan at 202-944-2809
or email.
Media
Advisories, Backgrounders, Releases
CCL won a major victory March 31, 2009, when the U.S. Supreme Court “dismissed as improvidently
granted” a case brought to the court by tobacco giant Philip Morris. By dismissing the case, the Court let stand a $79.5 million punitive damages verdict awarded by an
Oregon jury ten years ago to the widow of Jesse Williams, a man who died of lung cancer. Press Release Center
for Constitutional Litigation, P.C. to Argue Philip Morris In Critical Supreme Court Case.
Oral argument in
Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Williams, 07-1216, December
3, 2008, 10 a.m. Media Advisory. Case Background.
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