**FILE** St. Louis attorney Stephen Tillery talks with reporters after a closed door session in Judge Nicholas Byron's Madison County courtroom in Edwardsville, Ill., in an April 14, 2003, file photo. Byron, whose $10.1 billion judgment against Philip Morris USA in a lawsuit over light cigarettes was thrown out on appeal, has asked the Fifth District Appellate Court of Illinois to rule whether he has jurisdiction to reopen Tillery's lawsuit over light cigarettes, in an announcement Monday, May 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)