Mealey's (May 12, 2022, 12:54 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 11 denied three tobacco companies’ petition for rehearing en banc of their challenge to Los Angeles County’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales, with only the circuit judge who dissented from a split panel’s affirmance voting to rehear the tobacco companies’ argument that the county’s ban is preempted by federal authority under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA)....