Mealey's (December 13, 2021, 4:58 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former pharmaceutical chief executive officer on Dec. 13 saw his petition for certiorari denied by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to address his question about whether the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals properly vacated a $22.3 million jury verdict in his favor in an online defamation case following a sufficiency of the evidence appeal by a biopharmaceutical company....