SCOTUS Rules For Tobacco Giant In Vaping Case

The Washington Post reports:

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected government effort to narrow options for challenging Food and Drug Administration denials of applications to market e-cigarettes, including flavored products that health officials say have led to a youth vaping epidemic.

In a case that centered on questions of venue-shopping, the justices ruled 7-2 that tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds was allowed to ask a conservative appeals court far from its North Carolina home to examine an FDA rejection of its bid to market menthol cigarettes.

The FDA told the justices that R.J. Reynolds and other e-cigarette manufacturers were gaming court system rules by filing the vast majority of product-denial appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in New Orleans, which is widely seen as more sympathetic to their arguments.

Read the full article. There were no rulings today in the highly-anticipated birthright citizenship and LGBTQ books cases.

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