Mealey's (February 22, 2022, 2:14 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 22 denied a tribal tobacco business’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling affirming dismissal of the business’s lawsuit challenging California’s taxation and regulation of its cigarette business in part on the grounds that it, as a tribe’s corporate form, is entitled to certain tribal protections under federal law....