Rehearing Sought Before 8th Circuit In Challenge To City’s Flavored Tobacco Ban

(March 14, 2023, 12:14 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — Tobacco companies and retailers on March 13 petitioned the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for en banc or panel rehearing of their challenge to a Minnesota city’s ordinance banning the sale of all flavored tobacco products, arguing that a panel’s recent ruling upholding the ban conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent and could cause “regulatory bedlam.”...