Mealey's ( April 20, 2023, 2:30 PM EDT) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California federal judge on April 19 granted in part and denied in part tobacco companies’ motion to dismiss a family’s personal injury lawsuit against them for causing the father’s death from laryngeal cancer, dismissing three siblings’ claims for lack of standing but finding that the wife and daughter sufficiently alleged a product defect....