Fisherman Wins as U.S. Court Curbs Evidence-Destruction Law
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The U.S. Supreme Court scaled back a federal law that makes the destruction of evidence a crime, saying the measure shouldn’t have been used against a Florida fisherman for tossing undersized red grouper back into the sea to avoid a citation.
Voting 5-4, the justices narrowed a provision enacted as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act after the 2001 Enron Corp. accounting fraud. The ruling overturns John Yates’s conviction.