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Michigan cop’s mistake leads to $320,000 deal with Japanese man wrongly accused of drunken driving

Ryohei Akima blew a 0.02 on the test, but it was mistakenly read by the Fowlerville officer as 0.22 — nearly three times over Michigan’s blood-alcohol limit for driving.

Read more at NBC News

Perdue, Sanderson and other chicken suppliers have agreed to settle claims that they conspired for years to fix poultry prices, costing food distributors millions of dollars in overcharges. Consumers, direct purchasers of chicken and commercial plaintiffs such as restaurants and grocery stores in the coordinated cases accused the defendants of conspiring for years to keep prices artificially high by curbing production and sharing nonpublic data about supply and demand.
The plaintiffs have inked more than $284 million in prior settlements with other chicken producers.
Read more at Reuters

The appeal to the high court was brought by Susan Porter of California, who received a ticket in 2017 for honking her car’s horn in support of a group rallying outside the office of her congressman

Read more at The Hill

Northern Michigan business fined $750K for deleting emissions controls on semi-trucks
The company and the individual defendants pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act.
Diesel Freak is a diesel repair and electronics modification facility headquartered in Gaylord. The company designs and builds electronic monitoring and modification kits that adjust engine power and fuel efficiency through Wi-Fi connections with trucks on the road.
Read more at mLive

Florida lawmakers pass ban on social media for kids under 16 despite constitutional concerns

The bill targets any social media site that tracks user activity, allows children to upload material and interact with others, and uses addictive features designed to cause excessive or compulsive use. Supporters point to rising suicide rates among children, cyberbullying and predators using social media to prey on kids.

Read more at NBC News

Michigan consumers are getting hit hard by fraud: Michigan consumers reported losing $151.7 million in 2023 to all types of fraud and scams, according to the Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book. The median fraud loss was $410.

Read more at Detroit Free Press

Companies could find themselves in federal enforcement crosshairs if bad actors use their AI or payment tools, among other “means and instrumentalities,” to conduct impersonation scams. The Federal Trade Commission last week finalized a rule giving the agency authority to go after entities that impersonate a government body or a business to commit fraud. A second rule, still in a preliminary stage, would extend the authority to fraudsters who impersonate an individual.

Read more at Legal Dive

A loophole got him a free New York hotel stay for five years. Then he claimed to own the building

A man who succeeded in using a New York City housing law to live rent-free in the iconic hotel has been charged with fraud after he claimed to own it.

Read more at AP News

Major junior hockey players, aged 16 to 20, claim the independent leagues colluded to limit competition among themselves for player recruitment, in violation of U.S. antitrust law. According to the players, the anticompetitive agreements span across six hockey leagues and more than 146 clubs, nearly the entire North American ice hockey industry.

Read more at Courthouse News Service

Michigan’s third grade reading law ends with few kids getting held back

Michigan will no longer require school districts to hold back third graders who score too low on reading tests. In March 2023, the Democrats in control of state government threw out the third grade reading law, which went into effect in 2016 under Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration. The repeal went into effect this week.

Read more at Wood TV8

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