( September 16, 2025, 8:07 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s award of attorney fees and costs to a cigar maker as sanctions for misconduct by another cigar manufacturer in the latter’s 10-year-old antitrust and breach of contract lawsuit, finding that the trial court properly exercised its inherent authority to reach a “holistic and equitable resolution of this protracted dispute.”...