Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Mayola Williams, Personal Representative of the Estate of Jesse D. Williams, Deceased (556 U.S. 178)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 31, 2009 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 556 U.S. 178 · 129 S. Ct. 1436
- Decided
- March 31, 2009
- Term
- October Term 2008
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- Judicial Power
- Disposition
- Petition denied or appeal dismissed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 556 U. S. ____ (2009) 1 Per Curiam NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ No. 07–1216 _________________ PHILIP MORRIS USA INC., PETITIONER v. MAYOLA WILLIAMS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ES- TATE OF JESSE D. WILLIAMS, DECEASED ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OREGON [March 31, 2009] PER CURIAM. The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted. It is so ordered.
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