http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/news.aspx Headline Tobacco Legal News from LexisNexis® en-us http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/images/lexismealeyslogo.gif 130 29 http://www.lexisnexis.com/mealeys/news.aspx Copyright 2020 http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%201%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' MIAMI - After awarding $2.5 million on a man's claim that addiction drove him to smoke cigarettes, a Florida jury on Jan. 16 awarded no punitive damages, sources told Mealey Publications (Sabrina Cuddihee v. Philip Morris USA Inc., No. 2008CA000398, Fla. Cir., Duval Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%202%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' BOSTON - A Massachusetts jury returned a defense verdict Dec. 20 in a case involving a man who developed lung cancer decades after he stopped using tobacco products (Jonathan Main v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., No. 1684CV03883, Mass. Super., Suffolk Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%203%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TAMPA, Fla. - A Florida appellate panel on Dec. 27 affirmed a $21 million judgment in an Engle progeny case against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA Inc., rejecting the companies' arguments that the trial court made "multiple evidentiary and instructional errors" (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Faye Theis, No. 2D18-3348, Fla. App., 2nd Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 19163). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%204%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TAMPA, Fla. - A Florida appellate panel on Dec. 27 reversed a lower court's grant of a motion to set aside dismissal in an Engle progeny tobacco lawsuit that was originally dismissed due to the plaintiff's failure to timely pay a transfer fee after venue was transferred, noting that another appellate panel had earlier affirmed the previous judge's denial of the motion (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Thomas Howard, No. 2D19-267, Fla. App., 2nd Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 19199). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%205%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' LAKELAND, Fla. - The Second District Florida Court of Appeal on Dec. 18 reversed a defense verdict in favor of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and remanded the case for a new trial, saying the trial court erred in not directing a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on the tobacco company's statute of limitations defense (Angela Sue Durrance v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 2D17-2009, Fla. App., 2nd Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 10026). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%206%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Kentucky federal judge on Jan. 16 granted a motion by government agencies to dismiss a lawsuit that a vaping industry trade association and one of its members filed to halt enforcement of a premarket tobacco applications deadline that the group claimed will destroy the e-cigarette industry (Vapor Technology Association, et al. v. U.S. Food And Drug Administration, et al., No 19-0330, E.D. Ky.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%207%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - The California federal judge overseeing the Juul Labs Inc. multidistrict litigation asked the parties during a Jan. 13 in camera meeting to think about settlement discussions, according to minutes of a case management conference that followed (In Re: Juul Labs, Inc., Marketing, Sales Practices, And Products Liability Litigation, No. 19-2913, N.D. Calif.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%208%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' The attorney general of Arizona filed consumer fraud lawsuits on Jan. 7 in state court against Juul Labs Inc. for marketing e-cigarettes to youths, making Arizona the sixth state to sue Juul, and against Eonsmoke LLC, a New Jersey-based producer of vaping products, including flavored pods similar to those Juul has ceased producing (Arizona v. Juul Labs Inc., No. CV2020-000317, Arizona v. Eonsmoke LLC, No. CV2020-000318, Ariz. Super., Maricopa Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%209%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Judge William H. Orrick III of the Northern District of California on Dec. 20 appointed co-lead counsel and steering committee members for the multidistrict litigation against Juul Labs Inc., which is accused of deceptively marketing its e-cigarette products to children (Bradley Colgate v. Juul Labs, Inc., No. 19-2913, N.D. Calif). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2010%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN DIEGO - In a Jan. 7 filing in California state court, the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) became one of the latest school districts to sue Juul Labs Inc. for allegedly illegally marketing their e-cigarette products and flavored pods to minors; meanwhile, a Mississippi school district hit Juul with a class complaint in federal court a month earlier alleging Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act violations (San Diego Unified School District v. Juul Labs Inc., et al., No. 37-2020-00000935-CU-MT-CTL, Calif. Super., San Diego Co.; Jefferson County Public School District, et al. v. Juul Labs Inc., et al., No. 19-8265, N.D. Calif.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2011%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a Jan. 14 report identified e-cigarette products with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and from informal sources as a major factor in the 2,602 vaping-related injuries currently being reviewed as part of its multistate investigation into vaping-related illnesses. The agency renewed its recommendation that the public refrain from any use of vaping or e-cigarette products pending the conclusion of the investigation ("Update: Product, Substance-Use, and Demographic Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients in a Nationwide Outbreak of E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use-Associated Lung Injury" - United States, Aug. 2019-Jan. 2020, Mort. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. ePub, 14 Jan. 2020, S. Ellington, et al.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2012%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 2 announced a new policy that will prohibit the sale of some flavored e-cigarette products, including fruit and mint flavors, that it says are attractive to minors and have led to the "epidemic levels" of use among children. http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2013%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' MIAMI - A Florida jury on Jan. 10 heard opening statements where lawyers battled over whether a man smoked cigarettes fully aware of the dangers or whether those hazards were known only to the defendant and kept hidden from smokers (Leo Yount v. R.J. Reynolds, No. 2007CA030346, Fla. Cir., Dade Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2014%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' MIAMI - A former Marine developed laryngeal cancer but never needed to because safer tobacco products existed, a lawyer told a jury during opening statements on Jan. 16. But Philip Morris USA Inc.'s counsel told the jury that there was no way the man could not have known of the dangers cigarettes posed (Ed Principe v. Philip Morris, No. 2017-CA-025772, Fla. Cir., Dade Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2015%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. argues in a Dec. 20 brief on jurisdiction that the Florida Supreme Court should not review an appellate court decision reversing a trial court's order that it pay attorney fees to the widower of a longtime smoker in an Engle progeny case, saying the order was consistent with state Supreme Court precedent and Florida state law (James Lewis, etc. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 19-1374, Fla. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2016%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Tobacco company Philip Morris USA Inc. on Jan. 6 filed notice that it is asking the Florida Supreme Court to review an appeals court's November ruling in favor of a smoker's widow that partially reversed a trial court and ordered a new trial on punitive damages for both intentional and nonintentional tort claims (Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Stefanny Sommers, etc., No. 20-19, Fla. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2017%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The widower of a smoker on Dec. 20 appealed to the Florida Supreme Court after a Florida appeals court reversed a $40.9 million jury verdict and ordered a new trial on the grounds that the trial court erred by blocking a tobacco company from challenging the smoker's Engle class membership (Leslie Schlefstein, etc. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 19-2147, Fla. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2018%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - A District of Columbia federal judge on Dec. 20 said the court will not relitigate the issue of whether tobacco companies must make "corrective statements" about their products in a 20-year-old RICO lawsuit but will instead require the United States and the tobacco companies to address how such statements will impact the rights of point-of-sale (POS) retailers (United States, et al. v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., No. 99-2496, D. D.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 219390). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-11%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2019%20(2020)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - An investor in e-cigarette maker JUUL Labs Inc. filed a shareholder derivative and minority shareholder class action lawsuit in California state court on Jan. 6, alleging that certain of the company's current and former executive officers and directors have breached their fiduciary duty and were unjustly enriched at the expense of minority shareholders through their management of the company (Daniel Grove v. Adam Bowen, et al., No. CGC-20-582059, Calif. Super., San Francisco Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%201%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Oral arguments were held Dec. 10 in Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal in a dispute in which R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. maintains that eight "otherwise qualified" jurors were unfairly stricken for their opinion that smokers "bear some responsibility for their choices" (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Jacqueline Burgess, Personal Representative of the Estate of Johnny Burgess, No. 4D18-3014, Fla. App., 4th Dist.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%202%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' LAKELAND, Fla. - A Florida appellate panel on Dec. 6 affirmed a $24 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., rejecting the tobacco company's arguments on appeal that the jury should have been instructed to determine whether the smoker suffered from a disease that would qualify him as a member of the Engle class and that the punitive damages were excessive (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Rosemarie C. Graffeo, No. 2D18-4007, Fla. App., 2nd Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 18175). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%203%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A Florida appellate panel on Dec. 6 affirmed a $13.5 million jury verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., rejecting without discussion the tobacco company's arguments that changes in witness testimony from deposition to trial and the judge's jury instructions before the punitive damages phase constituted reversible error (Margaret Brown v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 5D18-1630, Fla. App., 5th Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 18125). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%204%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' MIAMI - A Florida appellate panel on Nov. 27 upheld a $1 million verdict for noneconomic damages against Philip Morris USA Inc. in an Engle progeny suit but partially reversed a trial court's order as to a new trial on punitive damages, clearing the way for the widow of a longtime smoker to seek punitive damages for both intentional and nonintentional tort claims (Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. Stefanny Sommers, etc., Nos. 3D18-908 & 3D18-228, Fla. App., 3rd Dist., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 17898). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%205%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WASHINGTON, D.C. - The District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 10 rejected arguments by an e-cigarette manufacturer and an industry trade group that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration violated the Tobacco Control Act and infringed on their First Amendment rights by creating a difficult pathway to premarket authorization and prohibiting free sample distribution of vaping products (Nicopure Labs LLC and Right To Be Smoke-Free Coalition v. Food & Drug Administration, et al., No. 17-5196, D.C. Cir.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%206%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SALT LAKE CITY - A excess insurer on Dec. 2 filed an amended complaint against e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. (JLI) seeking a Utah federal court's declaration that a $5 million liability policy is null and void because of alleged misrepresentations made about the discontinuance of candy-flavored vaping pods and about class actions by injured users (Prime Insurance Company v. Juul Labs, Inc., No. 19-925, D. Utah). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%207%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' States and government officials continue to seek to combat the effects of e-cigarette use, particularly among minors, through litigation and legislative orders. http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%208%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A trial court erred in denying a tobacco company's motion for directed verdict in a case that ultimately resulted in a $4 million jury verdict for the representative of a deceased smoker, a Florida appellate panel ruled Nov. 27, finding that the original suit, filed in the decedent's name after he had died, was a legal "nullity" and that the representative's amended complaint was time-barred under the statute of limitations (Philip Morris v. Jo E. Freeman, No. 1D18-2070, Fla. App., 1st Dis., 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 17864). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%209%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' BOSTON - A Massachusetts jury heard ongoing testimony Dec 12 after being told by plaintiff in opening statements that tobacco companies designed their products to be addictive The two defendants told the jury that a man's lung cancer likely did not arise from tobacco use and that they did not target minors (Jonathan Main v. Philip Morris USA Inc., et al., No. 1684CV03883, Mass. Super., Suffolk Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2010%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - A former executive for Juul Labs Inc. who alleges that he was fired for raising concerns about the company knowingly distributing 1 million contaminated tobacco pods must settle his claims through arbitration, the company tells a California federal judge in a Nov. 27 motion to compel arbitration (Siddharth Breja v. Juul Labs Inc., No. 19-7148, N.D. Calif.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-10%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2011%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A shareholder sued a manufacturer of cigarettes and smokeless products on Dec. 2 in New York federal court, alleging that the company and two of its senior executives violated federal securities laws by failing to conduct sufficient due diligence before making a nearly $13 billion investment in e-vapor products manufacturer JUUL Labs Inc. (Patrick F. Cipolla v. Altria Group Inc., et al., No. 19-6774, E.D. N.Y.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%201%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida jury on Nov. 15 added $148 million in punitive damages, just a week after awarding $9.2 million in compensatory damages after hearing that the plaintiff wanted to quit smoking but that his addiction was so strong he kept using tobacco even after doctors diagnosed him with lung cancer and his disease left him needing oxygen to breathe, sources told Mealey Publications (Edward Caprio v. Philip Morris USA Inc., No. 2007-CV-036719, Fla. Cir., 17th Jud.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%202%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A Florida jury on Oct. 24 returned a defense verdict for cigarette manufacturer R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., sources told Mealey's Publications (Helen Delancy v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., No. 2008CA000067, Fla. 19th Dist., Martin Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%203%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' MIAMI - A Florida jury on Nov. 12 added $27.5 million in punitive damages to a previous $15 million award for a woman's tobacco-related lung cancer (Kenneth Gloger v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al., No. 2011-CA-23377, Fla. Cir., Dade Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%204%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A Florida appeals court on Oct. 24 reversed a $6.4 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a wrongful death case, finding that the trial court erred in instructing the jury on a conspiracy to commit fraudulent concealment claim (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. v. Linda Prentice, No. 1D17-2104, Fla. App., 1st Dist.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%205%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WILMINGTON, Del. - The Delaware Supreme Court on Nov. 7 refused to consider an interlocutory appeal filed by a cigarette manufacturer, agreeing with a chancery court that the manufacturer's "assertion of immediate and irreparable harm" if denied protection from a hypothetical equity fee statute in Florida "was overblown and speculative" (ITG Brands LLC v. Reynolds American Inc., et al., No. 453, 2019, Del. Sup.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%206%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' The attorney general of New York on Nov. 19 sued Juul Labs Inc. (JLI) in a state court, alleging that the e-cigarette manufacturer violated state law in its marketing and sales of vaping products to minors, one day after the attorney general of California announced a similar lawsuit (Attorney General of New York v. Juul Labs Inc., No. N/A, N.Y. Sup., New York Co.; California v. Juul Labs, Inc, et al., No. RG19043543, Calif. Super., Alameda Co.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%207%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - A former executive for Juul Labs Inc. who alleges that the company knowingly distributed 1 million contaminated tobacco pods sued the company on Oct. 29 in a California federal court after he says he was fired for raising concerns (Siddharth Breja v. Juul Lab Inc., No. 19-7148, N.D. Calif.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%208%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - A mother sued Juul Labs Inc. on Oct 15 in a California federal court, alleging that the e-cigarette manufacturer is responsible for the death of her 18-year-old son (Lisa Marie Vail v. Juul Labs Inc., No. 19-6597, N.D. Calif.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%209%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' JACKSON, Miss. - A vaping company and manufacturer and a newly formed trade association on Nov. 13 rejected arguments from the Food and Drug Administration that the government can regulate e-cigarette products under the Family Smoking Prevention & Tobacco Control Act (TCA) and asked a federal court in Mississippi to grant a motion for preliminary injunction to prevent the FDA from taking any regulatory or enforcement action against them (Big Time Vapes Inc. and United States Vaping Association v. Food and Drug Administration, et al., No. 19-531, S.D. Miss.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2010%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' LEXINGTON, Ky. - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 11 urged a Kentucky federal court to deny a motion for a preliminary injunction filed by a vaping industry trade association and one of its members against the FDA's enforcement of a premarket tobacco applications deadline that the group says will destroy the e-cigarette industry (Vapor Technology Association, et al. v. U.S. Food And Drug Administration, et al., No 19-0330, E.D. Ky.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2011%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' GREENSBORO, N.C. - An e-cigarette company facing charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices in a lawsuit filed by North Carolina did not present any reasonable basis for removing the case from state court, a federal judge ruled Nov. 7, remanding the case to state court and ordering the company to pay attorney fees (North Carolina v. Eonsmoke LLC, No. 19-987, M.D. N.C.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2012%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - A panel of the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 7 reversed partial summary judgment rulings for a Washington state tribal tobacco company and against New York in the state's efforts to stop the company from shipping untaxed cigarettes to reservation smoke shops in New York (New York v. Mountain Tobacco Company, et al., Nos. 17-3198 and 17-3222, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 33306). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2013%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' NEW YORK - A majority of a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 7 affirmed that United Parcel Service Inc. illegally shipped untaxed cigarettes from Native American smoke shops in New York but reduced the damages awarded to the state and New York City by $149 million (New York, et al. v. United Parcel Service, Inc., Nos. 17-1993, 17-2107 and 17-2111, 2nd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 33308). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2014%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A shareholder sued a distributor of e-cigarettes, vaporizers and accessories and products containing hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) and certain of its executive officers and directors in Florida federal court on Oct. 16, alleging that the defendants failed to disclose in offering documents for an initial public offering (IPO) a major initiative in the City of San Francisco that would severely impede the company's business and financial success in offering documents in violation of federal securities laws (Randall Mayer v. Greenlane Holdings Inc., et al., No. 19-81411, S.D. Fla.). http://www.lexis.com/research/xlink?canceldest=form&keyenum=25271&keytnum=0&searchtype=get&search=33-9%20Mealey%27s%20Litig.%20Rep.%20Tobacco%2015%20(2019)&view=full&ORIGINATION_CODE=00144 target='_blank' SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Judge William H. Orrick III of the Northern District of California on Nov. 8 named four lawyers to the interim leadership team for the multidistrict litigation against Juul Labs Inc, which alleges that an e-cigarette maker created an addictive product that is deceptively marketed to children (In Re: Juul Labs, Inc., No. 2913, JPMDL).