United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc.

TATEL, Circuit Judge:

This is the latest appeal in the government’s long-running RICO case against the nation’s major cigarette manufacturers. Ten years ago, the district court issued a comprehensive remedial order, which included a requirement that defendants and their successors televise “corrective statements” about the dangers of smoking. Eight years later, one defendant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR), sought to dissolve that order as void under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(4) and unjust under Rule 60(b)(6). The district court denied RJR’s motion, and we affirm. As the…