(Slip Opinion)            Cite as: 556 U. S. ____ (2009)                              1

                                     Per Curiam

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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
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                                     No. 07–1216
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 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.
