Legal

On October 8th, U.S. District Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani denied the premium cigar industry’s emergency request for a temporary restraining order to postpone California’s Unflavored Tobacco List (UTL) filing deadline. Read more

Yesterday, a formal complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in response to the new Unflavored Tobacco List in California. Read more

Earlier this week, the Cigar Rights of America sent a letter to the Attorney General of California regarding the Department of Justice’s recently adopted emergency regulations implementing the Unflavored Tobacco List. Read more

Sometimes, you have to hold your trade organization responsible of their mistakes to prevent them from getting worse. Read more

The Premium Cigar Association Board of Directors announces the contract extension of Executive Director Joshua Habursky for five years, spanning from 2026 to 2031. Read more

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in favor of Cubatabaco in the litigation General Cigar Co., Inc. filed challenging the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s cancellation of its US trademark registrations for the COHIBA mark for cigars. Read more

Yesterday, President Donald Trump put into effect reciprocal tariffs with over sixty countries worldwide. What does this mean for cigars? Read more

Last week, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) published its proposed rule to establish a maximum nicotine level for cigarettes and certain other combustible tobacco products. Read more

Earlier this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule on the prohibition of sale of tobacco products to persons younger than 21 years of age. Read more

Today, the Supreme Court of the United States published their decision in Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in which they ruled that the six-year statute of limitations to challenge an agency regulation begins when a party is first harmed by the regulation. Read more

Last week, a member of the Colorado state senate sought tax relief for the state’s small business tobacconists and their customers. Although the measure came up a couple of votes short, the case was made as never before.  Read more

On January 31, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) filed its appealing Judge Amit Mehta’s orders holding the FDA’s decision to regulate premium cigars arbitrary and capricious and vacating it. Read more

Today Gurkha Cigar Group made a statement that it would be filing a lawsuit against Oettinger Davidoff over the use of the "Year of the Dragon" name. Read more