Judge Dismisses Antitrust Claims Against Nicotine Pouch Maker, Tobacco Company

( September 22, 2025, 2:13 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia federal judge dismissed with prejudice a Zyn nicotine pouch consumer’s putative class action against the maker of the pouches and its parent company for violating state and federal antitrust laws by allegedly conspiring to create a monopoly over the nicotine pouch market and intentionally slowing production to increase prices after finding that the plaintiff never alleged that the defendants were “horizontal competitors.”...