A U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Friday temporarily paused a ban that prohibited e-cigarette company Juul Labs Inc. from selling and distributing its products.
This comes one day after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned Juul’s device and four types of JUULpods from the market, forcing retailers to remove the products from their inventories, in what was a blow to the popular e-cigarette company.
The court granted Juul’s motion to stay the ban so it has “sufficient opportunity” to hear further arguments on the matter.
The order to temporarily pause the ban should not be “construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” the court order read….