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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Pitney Road Partners Construction Expansion Contract Settlement
Lancaster County, PA: (Aug-24-07) Warfel Construction brought a breach of contract lawsuit against Harrisburg Area Community College developer Pitney Road Partners, over the final payments on the $22 million expansion. In a long awaited settlement, which was reached out of court, Pitney Road Partners and others paid Warfel nearly $5 million. Warfel then pa... - Los Angeles, CA City Council Ethnic Discrimination Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: (Aug-24-07) Ruby De Vera, who ran for District 14 council office and came out 3rd place among 12 candidates in 2005, filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that she was fired due to her ethnic origin. Sources state that De Vera, a Filipino woman, was fired as an office manager for embarrassing her boss, Council Member Ed Reyes. I... - Fraternal Order of Police 9/11 Donations Fraud Settlement
New York, NY: (Aug-27-07) The State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Office brought a lawsuit against the state Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), alleging that the order used money it received in donation for personal use. Tapping an outpouring of generosity after the Twin Towers attack, the FOP's foundation collected more than $15 million in donations. A so... - Post Buckley Schuh & Jernigan Contract Over Billing Settlement
Bartow, FL: (Aug-26-07) The county brought a lawsuit against Post Buckley Schuh & Jernigan (PBSJ), a longtime county engineering consultant, alleging that it over billed the county as the result of a $36 million embezzlement scheme. The embezzlement scheme led to the arrest and conviction of former Chief Financial Officer William Scott DeLoach and two othe... - Black Hawk County, IA Jail Deputy Misconduct Settlement
Waterloo, IA: (Aug-25-07) Three women brought a lawsuit against Black Hawk County, alleging that they were sexually abused while being held in the county jail. The plaintiffs are not being named because they were victims of sexual assault. The suit, filed in 2006 in US District Court, against the county, the estate of Deputy Jeffrey Condit, Sheriff Micha... - Natural Selection Foods Spinach E. Coli Sickness Settlement
Salt Lake City, UT: (Aug-26-07) Sheila Leafty, a Murray woman, brought a lawsuit against California spinach processor, Natural Selection Foods, alleging that tainted spinach landed her 7-year-old son in the hospital in 2006. Federal officials announced a massive recall of fresh spinach last September after nearly 200 people across the nation reported getti... - Dr. Pradeep Srivastava Medicare Billing Fraud Settlement
Potomac, MD: (Aug-23-07) The federal government filed charges against Dr. Pradeep Srivastava of Potomac, alleging that he fraudulently billed Medicare and another health program. Srivastava, a cardiologist with offices in Greenbelt and Oxon Hill, was accused of multiple billing abuses over a three-and-a-half-year period ending in May 2003. He was accused o... - Asbestos: The Migration of a Killer
Oct-30-07 Libby, MT Residents of this small town whose health was affected over years of exposure to asbestos particles from the former W.R.Grace vermiculite mine have been fast-tracked to receive a $400,000 settlement award via the Spector-Leahy Asbestos Bill. Virtually the entire town was negatively impacted by the fallout of asbestos production, with death rate... - Stuart Dubose Estate Fee Legal Malpractice Settlement
Mobile, AL: (Aug-23-07) Mobile Circuit Court Judge John Lockett brought charges against Stuart Dubose, a Washington County Judge, accusing him of collecting a fee while overseeing the estate of a man he never met. The complaint filed with the Alabama Bar Association resulted in a 45 day suspension of Dubose's law license administered just after he was elec... - Covenant Retirement Communities Inc. Resident Disability Discrimination Settlement
Washington, DC: (Aug-23-07) The Department of Justice brought a lawsuit against Chicago-based Covenant Retirement Communities Inc. and its subsidiaries, alleging that the nationwide provider of retirement housing violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against residents based on disability. The suit claimed that the defendants employed policies tha... - Homeward Bound Services Elderly Health Care Fraud Settlement
Delaware County, PA: (Aug-23-07) Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett and his office brought a lawsuit against Homeward Bound Services, alleging that the Delaware County-based health care company defrauded hundreds of elderly customers. The suit claimed that Homeward Bound deliberately deceived elderly Pennsylvanians living on a fixed income by sellin... - Textron Inc. Oil for Food Kickbacks Settlement
Washington, DC: (Aug-23-07) The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against Textron Inc., which makes products like Bell helicopters and Cessna corporate jets, accusing them of engaging in oil-for-food kickback practices. The SEC alleged that from 2001 to 2003, two of Textron's French units paid $650,539 in kickbacks in connection with the... - Edgerton Fire Protection District Fired Firefighters Settlement
Edgerton, WI: (Aug-23-07) Three former employees, Arnie Lund, Ken Crandall, and Mark Backes, brought charges against the Edgerton Fire Protection District, alleging that they were wrongfully fired. The firefighters were fired in 2003, but a Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission ruling ordered them reinstated with back pay. An appeals court upheld the d... - Columbus Steel Castings Water and Air Pollution Fine
Columbus, OH: (Aug-23-07) The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against Columbus Steel Castings, alleging that the South Side foundry caused air pollution and has a water-pollution problem that dates back 18 years. Columbus Steel has been in the news since 2005, when neighbors filed complaints with the Ohio EPA over foul odors from... - Inkster, MI Police Lieutenant Racial Discrimination Settlement
Inkster, MI: (Aug-23-07) Diaz, a Hispanic Inkster police lieutenant, brought a lawsuit against the city, alleging that the city racially discriminated against him in 2004. Diaz, 40, had worked for the city for 18 years. He filed the lawsuit against the city in federal court in October 2004, claiming that preferential treatment was given to black job applic... - PPH: You Can't Find what You Don't Look For
Oct-28-07 Wheelersburg, OH In the early 1990s and again in 1998, Kendall Lewis took the diet drug Adapex for weight loss. He had no health issues before taking this drug but he has now been diagnosed with hypertension and his cardiologist advised him to have more testing, this time for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH). Lewis might be joining thousands of other v... - Lubbock, TX City Truck Accident Settlement
Lubbock, TX: (Aug-23-07) Martha Dillon, a Lubbock woman, filed suit against the city, after she was seriously injured in April 2005 when the car she was driving was t-boned by a city truck. The lawsuit filed at the Lubbock County Courthouse, claimed that the Ford F-250, driven by city employee James Michael Dell, hit Dillon's 1986 Volvo in the 3500 block o... - Adrian James Teal Shot Hunting Dog Settlement
Dublin, GA: (Aug-23-07) Gene Brooks of Dublin brought charges against Adrian James Teal of Douglas, alleging that Teal deliberately shot his hunting dog, Buster. The suit stated that Brook, along with his brother Joe and Tripp Neal, were hunting feral hogs in Washington County on property estimated to be a tract of about 6,000 acres near the river. Buster... - Volusia County, FL Beach Patrol Accident Personal Injury Settlement
Volusia County, FL: (Aug-23-07) Haleigh Howerton, a Volusia County woman, filed suit against the county after she was run over on the beach by a beach patrol pickup. The incident took place when Howerton was sunbathing on Daytona Beach in an area closed to traffic; she claimed a beach patrol truck rolled over her. The truck was driven by a veteran officer... - Order of Dominican Fathers and Brothers in New York City Alter Boy Priest Abuse Settlement
Germantown, MD: (Aug-23-07) Brandon Rains, now 21, a former altar boy at Mother Seton Parish in Germantown, brought sexual molestation charges against Rev. Aaron Joseph Cote, 56, a priest who served at the parish from June 2001 to July 2002. Sources confirmed that Cote worked as a member of the Order of Dominican Fathers and Brothers in New York City and w...