The City Of New York , et al v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.

  1. April 04, 2016

    FedEx Must Face NY Suit Over Untaxed Cigarette Shipments

    The city and state of New York prevailed in their efforts to keep alive a lawsuit accusing FedEx of illegally shipping untaxed cigarettes from Native American reservations after a federal judge ruled that their allegations were entirely plausible.

  2. March 01, 2016

    FedEx Says Merging Tribal Cig Tax Suits Will Slow Them Down

    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.

  3. April 24, 2015

    NY To Ratchet Up Damages In FedEx Bootleg Cig Case

    New York state authorities told a Manhattan federal judge on Friday that they were set to ratchet up damages claims against Federal Express Corp., likely into the multiple hundreds of millions of dollars, for allegedly helping traffickers on Native American land and elsewhere to ship cigarettes in ways that dodged hefty New York City and state taxes.

  4. December 03, 2014

    FedEx Gets Discovery Paused In 2nd NY Bootleg Cigs Suit

    A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday stayed discovery in a recently filed, "open-ended" government lawsuit claiming a Federal Express Corp. unit violated racketeering and other laws in joining with an untold number of traffickers to smuggle contraband cigarettes into New York to dodge hefty New York City and state taxes.