The substantial equivalence deadline will not be moving back to August 2021. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit...Read More
A key court hearing regarding the cigar industry’s lawsuit over regulations by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has been moved from a courtroom...Read More
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has appealed a ruling from a federal court in Maryland that changed the date substantial equivalence submissions are...Read More
The cigar industry’s desire to delay the upcoming substantial equivalence deadline will have to find a new approach. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta...Read More
The cigar industry is due back in court, two courts actually, in October to continue its legal fight against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration...Read More
A federal judge in Maryland has ruled that cigarmakers have until May 12, 2020, to submit applications for substantial equivalence, about 450 days earlier than...Read More
Earlier today, attorneys for three cigar trade groups and three Texas-based cigar businesses filed a motion to throw out a May court decision that would...Read More
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has asked a federal court in Maryland to order that FDA’s substantial equivalence deadline should begin no sooner...Read More
Seven health groups and five Maryland-based doctors filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and its delay of the deeming...Read More