Mealey's (February 27, 2023, 11:03 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Los Angeles County and its Board of Supervisors (LA) urge the U.S. Supreme Court to deny three tobacco companies’ petition for a writ of certiorari challenging a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals split panel’s affirmance of LA’s ban on flavored tobacco products, arguing that the county’s ban is distinguishable from past cases where the high court deemed product bans federally preempted (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, California, et al., No. 22-338, U.S. Sup.)....