Judge Orders Quick Response To Nicotine Pouch-Maker’s Suit Over Unfair Ban

( March 26, 2026, 2:05 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration and other government defendants to respond within days to a motion for a temporary restraining order and complaint filed by the maker of “Zone” nicotine pouches that says the FDA’s decision to refuse to file its premarket tobacco application (PMTA) for its pouch products, which effectively denied it authorization to sell its products, “poses an existential threat to the company.”...