Mealey's (September 12, 2022, 10:47 AM EDT) -- HONOLULU — A split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 7 declined to resolve the appeal of a man who sued a South Korea-based battery maker for the explosion of his e-cigarette device while he was vaping, which caused severe mouth burns, citing a lack of “clear controlling precedent,” and certified two jurisdictional questions to the Hawaii Supreme Court regarding the applicability of the state’s long-arm statute....