Perrow, who serves as the ASP surfers' representative and speaks on behalf of the Top 32 ranked men and women, said a move entirely to the cities won't happen on his watch even after New York and San Francisco joined the event calendar last year.

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The new trial, which began in Miami on July 6th and is known as the Engle case after the first of its six representative plaintiffs, is on behalf of all smokers in Florida who were injured by their addiction to cigarettes.

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