8th Circuit Won’t Rehear Challenge To City’s Flavored Tobacco Ban

Mealey's (April 19, 2023, 10:02 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 18 denied a petition filed by tobacco companies and retailers for en banc or panel rehearing of their challenge to a Minnesota city’s ordinance banning the sale of all flavored tobacco products, despite their argument that a panel’s ruling upholding the ban conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent and could cause “regulatory bedlam.”...