FedEx Says Merging Tribal Cig Tax Suits Will Slow Them Down

From: Law360.com

FedEx urged a New York federal judge on Monday to kill a request by New York city and state prosecutors to merge two cases against the parcel carrier over alleged illegal shipments of untaxed cigarettes from Native American reservations, saying that the cases are on different schedules and that consolidation would cause long delays.

The company said the prosecutors’ request to merge the cases comes as a sharp reversal of their 2014 decision to file a new suit instead of amending their original complaint. FedEx also…

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