( April 29, 2026, 2:22 PM EDT) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A Massachusetts federal judge on April 28 remanded a lawsuit filed by a 58-year-old smoker with lung cancer against three tobacco companies and two retailers to state court, finding the tobacco defendants failed to establish fraudulent joinder of one of the retailers and that the plaintiff’s misidentification of the retailer in the pleadings was an “excusable misnomer.”...