Cigar Industry Suit Against Philly’s Flavored Tobacco Ban Removed To Federal Court

Mealey's (July 17, 2020, 12:01 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia on July 1 removed a state court lawsuit filed by a cigar industry association and cigar manufacturers challenging the city’s ban on flavored tobacco products as economically damaging and preempted by state tobacco law to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Cigar Association Of America Inc., et al. v. Philadelphia, et al., No. 20-3220, E.D. Pa.)....