( July 29, 2026, 9:50 AM EDT) -- HONOLULU — A tobacco company filed its opening brief in Hawaii state appellate court seeking the reversal and remand of a judgment against it worth more than $89 million in favor of a smoker who developed laryngeal cancer and his wife, writing that the jury’s $85 million punitive damages award was unconstitutionally excessive in comparison to the compensatory damages awarded and that the trial court’s other rulings in the case were flawed....