Law360, New York (November 05, 2009) -- A federal judge on Thursday denied several major tobacco companies' request to freeze implementation of a newly enacted measure that would ban the sale of any “modified risk tobacco product” — including cigarettes labeled “light” or “low-tar” — without prior U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky denied the companies' request for a preliminary injunction that would keep the modified risk...
