[§607-26] Limit on supersedeas bond. (a) In any civil action brought under any legal theory, the amount of a supersedeas bond or other form of security necessary to stay execution of a judgment granting legal, equitable, or any other form of relief during the entire course of all appeals or discretionary review of that judgment by all appellate courts shall be set in accordance with applicable law, except that:
(b) This section shall not apply to the limitation on bonds for tobacco master settlement agreement signatories and their successors and affiliates under section 328L-7.
(c) For purposes of this section:
"Civil action" includes, without limitation, cases involving individual, aggregated, class action, or otherwise joined claims.
"Legal, equitable, or any other form of relief" means all forms of relief, including without limitation, compensatory, special, punitive, exemplary or other damages, injunctive relief, or any other form of relief. [L 2006, c 11, §1]