News analysis / West Virginia

FDA files memo in opposition to public health coalition lawsuit

10th August 2018 | News analysis |

This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed a memo in opposition to a motion for a summary judgment in US District Court in Maryland for a lawsuit against the tobacco deeming extensions. The lawsuit arose from the FDA s defence of its extension of the initial deeming rule compliance deadlines.

West Virginia politician is latest to contest deeming rule in court

19th June 2016 | News analysis |

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is facing another legal challenge to its new deeming regulation on e-cigarettes. Filed in the Southern District of West Virginia on 10th June, the action was taken by Larry W. Faircloth, a Republican member of West Virginia’s House of Delegates who is described as a user of e-cigarette devices and liquid nicotine.