( December 19, 2025, 2:31 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Virginia federal judge on Dec. 18 enjoined the state of Virginia from enforcing provisions of a new state e-cigarette registry law that would allow it to issue civil penalties or bar the sale of vape products not on its registry pending the outcome of an appeal in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of a similar North Carolina law but granted in part the state’s motion to dismiss two vape manufacturers’ challenge to the registry....