Mealey's ( July 20, 2022, 1:32 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, as circuit justice for the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, on July 15 granted three tobacco companies’ application for an extension until Oct. 7 to file a petition for a writ of certiorari challenging a split Ninth Circuit panel’s affirmance of the dismissal of their challenge to a ban on flavored tobacco products enacted by Los Angeles County....