In a victory for anti-smoking activists, a federal court ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must provide a schedule for issuing a graphic-warnings rule for cigarette packaging by late September, years after being required to do such by federal law.

In her Wednesday ruling, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of the District of Massachusetts wrote that the FDA “unlawfully withheld” or “unreasonably delayed” the promulgation of graphic warnings and a rule for regulating their implementation after being tasked with the oversight of such with Congress’ 2009 passing of the Tobacco Control Act. The FDA’s most recent estimation for issuing a “final rule,” the order said, would be November 2021 “at the earliest.”