( June 4, 2026, 2:54 PM EDT) -- TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A North Carolina-based hookah distributor filed two petitions asking the Florida Supreme Court to review a split appellate panel’s affirmance of the state refusing to refund $1.4 million in excise taxes and surcharges on sales, arguing that the panel applied its own “reasoning” and “intuition” to the tax code’s definition of “loose tobacco” products, thereby improperly “displacing textual limits.”...