Mealey's (February 27, 2023, 11:09 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 27 denied three tobacco companies’ petition for a writ of certiorari challenging a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals split panel’s affirmance of Los Angeles County’s ban on flavored tobacco products, which the tobacco companies and a dissenting circuit judge had said was identical to past cases in which the high court deemed product bans federally preempted....