Eighth Circuit Upholds Minnesota City Flavor Ban
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Federal law doesn’t block a ban on sales of flavored vaping products, menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products in Edina, Minn., the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday in a case brought by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and related companies, according to Bloomberg Law News.
The appeals court affirmed a lower-court ruling that kept the ban in place, on the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a tobacco company challenge to a similar law in Los Angeles.
The unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit joined other federal appeals courts in holding that a local ban on tobacco products is constitutional.