( May 27, 2026, 2:34 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has vacated and remanded a lower court decision on the risk of water fluoridation, ruling that the district court “abused its discretion” when it refused to rule on the record presented in the first of two bench trials and when it paused the case pending publication of an additional study on water fluoridation, despite both parties asking the court to decide the case on the existing evidentiary record....