Mealey's ( November 3, 2022, 12:03 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three tobacco companies recently filed a blanket consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in their pending U.S. Supreme Court petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a split Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s affirmance of the dismissal of their challenge to a ban on flavored tobacco products enacted by Los Angeles County, which they say conflicts with high court precedent....