Mealey's ( April 4, 2022, 2:02 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Three tobacco companies in an April 1 petition for rehearing en banc urge the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to address a split panel’s ruling upholding Los Angeles County’s ban on sales of flavored tobacco products, which they claim creates a circuit split, and to find the ban a preempted tobacco product standard under U.S. Supreme Court precedent as the dissenting judge wrote....