A couple of important jury decisions today. Big Tobacco Ordered to Pay $145 Billion; how much chance is there that this won’t go without appeal? And Jury Finds U.S. Not to Blame in Waco Case. “Specifically, the jury said that evidence showed the ATF did not

fire indiscriminately during the initial raid, that the FBI did not

cause the fire when its tanks penetrated the compound walls

and did not violate orders by not having firefighters on hand.” Interestingly, however, the issue of whether FBI agents fired on Branch Davidians fleeing the burning compound was severed from the rest of the lawsuit and has not yet been decided, pending the recovery from surgery of the expert witness who had recreated the infamous FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) video some had claimed showed evidence of FBI gunfire.