( October 22, 2024, 1:09 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Food and Drug Administration and its federal codefendants on Oct. 21 filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to deny a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by tobacco companies and retailers who are challenging a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling upholding the Food and Drug Administration’s new graphic warnings requirement on tobacco products, asserting that the warnings are proper under the Tobacco Control Act (TCA)....