Judge Releases Reasons For Rejecting Cigar Maker’s Tobacco Control Act Challenge

(September 10, 2024, 3:13 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on Sept. 9 issued a partly redacted version of his previously sealed opinion explaining his decision to deny a flavored cigar manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment on its claims for vacatur of the entire deeming rule issued by the Food and Drug Administration under the Tobacco Control Act (TCA) and for an order requiring the FDA to resolve the manufacturer’s pending substantial-equivalence report (SER)....