Mealey's (January 12, 2022, 1:28 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — California Attorney General Rob Bonta argues in a Jan. 7 brief that the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn’t grant a tribal tobacco business’s petition for a writ of certiorari because the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling affirming dismissal of the business’s lawsuit challenging California’s taxation and regulation of its operation does not conflict with high court precedent or create any conflict among circuit courts....