Mealey's (October 30, 2020, 2:24 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 29 affirmed dismissal of a preemptive federal lawsuit by the marketers of Palvix over a state court consumer case brought by the Hawaii attorney general, agreeing that the underlying litigation is a quasi-criminal enforcement proceeding and that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling bars federal courts from interfering with the state court proceeding (Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, et al. v. Clare E. Connors, et al., No. 20-15515, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 34142)....