U.S. court upholds prosecutors’ role in deferred prosecution deals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the ability of federal prosecutors to broker deals allowing corporate defendants to avoid criminal convictions in a case involving a Dutch company accused of illegally shipping aircraft part…
United flight attendant leaves packed plane in Houston on emergency slide
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A United Airlines flight attendant deployed an emergency evacuation slide on an airplane after it arrived in Houston and used it to exit a plane packed with passengers, an airline official said on Tuesday.
Former U.S. tax judge charged with cheating on her tax returns
(Reuters) – A retired U.S. tax judge and her husband have been charged in Minnesota with cheating the government of $400,000 in taxes in a scheme that treated personal spending such as jewelry, pilates classes and overseas vacations as business expense…
Cosby allowed to delay providing evidence in Massachusetts defamation case
(Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby won the right on Monday to delay providing evidence in a lawsuit in Massachusetts, in which he is accused of defaming women with public assertions that they fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Judge orders U.S. to address climate threat to wolverines
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday rejected a decision by U.S. wildlife managers to deny wolverines Endangered Species Act protection, ruling the government erred in discounting the threat posed by climate change to the weasel-like pre…
California lawmakers delay ‘tampon tax’ exemption bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A California Assembly panel delayed action on Monday on a bill to end sales taxes on tampons and sanitary napkins, an exemption already enacted in five other states in a growing movement against what sponsors say is a tax…
U.S. court orders UBS to pay $4.7 million in Puerto Rico divorce flap
(Reuters) – A UBS AG unit must pay more than $4.7 million to a customer’s former spouse who alleged that the firm improperly released accounts worth $12 million to her ex-husband despite a court order freezing those assets, a U.S. federal judge has rul…
Narcotic fentanyl linked to at least 10 California overdose deaths
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – At least 42 drug overdoses in the past two weeks have been reported in northern California, 10 of them fatal, in what authorities on Monday called the biggest cluster of poisonings linked to the powerful synthetic narcotic fenta…
Killer of New York’s Kitty Genovese dies in prison
(Reuters) – The convicted murderer of Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, a 28-year-old New York City bartender whose 1964 slaying became a notorious symbol of urban indifference, has died in prison at age 81, corrections officials said on Monday.
Bernard Madoff to be deposed by victims’ lawyers: filing
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal bankruptcy judge has ruled that Bernard Madoff can be questioned by lawyers for some former customers who lost money when the imprisoned swindler’s firm collapsed in December 2008, a Monday court filing shows.
