Mealey's (November 30, 2022, 10:06 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tobacco companies and a retailers’ association on Nov. 29 filed an emergency application to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan as justice for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, asking for a writ of injunction barring California from enacting a statewide ban of flavored tobacco product sales while they seek to challenge the Ninth Circuit’s binding precedent upholding a similar ban that they say was wrongly decided (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Robert Bonta, et al., No. 22A474, U.S. Sup.)....