( October 31, 2023, 12:10 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A group of e-cigarette businesses and industry associations on Oct. 30 filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a tobacco companies and a retailers’ association that are challenging the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ affirmance of California’s flavored tobacco ban, asserting that the ban interferes with federal regulation of e-cigarettes....