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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- AK Steel Corp. Employee Racial Discrimination Settlement
Middletown, OH: (Feb-01-07) A racial discrimination lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the US District Court in September 2003 has reached settlement. The lawsuit alleged AK Steel's Butler plant was a racially hostile workplace for a group of black workers. The workers claimed they often saw graffiti depicting Nazi symb... - Lilly Receives Zyprexa Greetings From Capitol Hill
Apr-27-07 Washington, DC: The Chairman and CEO of Eli Lilly, Sidney Taurel, has become a regular pen pal with lawmakers on Capitol Hill since the company's ten-year campaign to increase profits by promoting the off-label use of Zyprexa for patients covered by public health care programs became the focus of investigations in both houses of Congress. According... - Fosamax: Update Your Warnings
Apr-27-07 Sacramento, CA For many post-menopausal women, doctors routinely prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and Fosamax , a drug that allegedly helps prevent and reverse osteoporosis, or bone loss. The 'major side effects' listed on the Fosamax website are nausea and indigestion -jaw bone loss and dental decay should also be added to the list of side ef... - GlaxoSmithKline Wellbutrin Patent Infringement Settlement
Corona, CA: (Feb-11-07) A leading pharmaceutical company, Andrx Corporation, filed a patent infringement lawsuit in December 2005, against GlaxoSmithKline claiming Wellbutrin XL product infringed Andrx's US patent. The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled in favor of Andrix, ordering GlaxoSmithKline to pay one-time payment of $35 m... - Atlantic Richfield Co. Restoration Damage Settlement
Butte, MT: (Feb-12-07) A long ensuing battle between the state of Montana and Atlantic Richfield has reached a settlement totaling roughly $215 million in restoration damage claims. The lawsuit claimed Atlantic Richfield caused environmental damage by mining and smelting in Butte and Anaconda. The remaining claims involved damage along the Clark Fork Rive... - Hampshire Constabulary Dyslexia Discrimination Settlement
United Kingdom: (Feb-12-07) Former policeman, Philip Currier, sued the police department for willfully differentiating against him on account of his dyslexia. Currier first tried to join Hampshire police in 2003 after 22 years as a navy chef. He said he had dyslexia, yet he was given no extra time to sit the entrance exam, which he failed the first time... - Pennywise Oil Company, Inc. Oil Spill Settlement
Boston, MA: (Feb-09-07) The EPA filed suit against Pennywise Oil Company for failing to plan adequately for and guard against oil spills at a bulk storage facility in Essex and Westbrook. The lawsuit alleged Pennywise Oil Company thereby violated the federal Clean Water Act. On inspection, a representative from the Connecticut Department of Environmenta... - Ken Tapscott Asbestos Lawsuit Fraud Settlement
Dallas, TX: (Feb-10-07) Ken Tapscott, presiding over County Court at Law No. 4, was accused by former clients in an asbestos lawsuit of deliberately lying about a lawsuit settlement. The jury claimed Tapscott, representing a case involving wrongful death resulting from asbestos, had told his clients that all the parties had settled. However, one company,... - New Mexico, USA Violation of the Public Records Act Settlement
Albuquerque, NM: (Feb-10-07) The New Mexico State Police were charged with a lawsuit by The New Mexican, Rio Grande Sun, Albuquerque Journal, and Albuquerque Tribune over the agency's refusal to release documents. The litigation began when the state Department of Public Safety, the cabinet agency that oversees state police, refused to release informatio... - Douglas County, NB Police Captain Retaliation Settlement
Omaha, NB: (Feb-10-07) Former Police Captain Dan McGovern sued Sheriff Tim Dunning and Douglas County for allegedly disciplining him in retaliation for his campaign against Dunning. In June 2006, McGovern served a 20-day suspension. In defense, Dunning claimed that McGovern was punished for mishandling evidence and an internal investigation. Sheriff Tim... - Movie Gallery Inc., Empire Equity Group, and Home Finance Mortgage Inc. Customer Information Violation Fine
Greensboro, NC: (Feb-08-07) The state of North Carolina filed suit against three businesses for illegally disposing of files containing personal customer information including credit card and social security details, thereby putting them at risk for identity theft. The lawsuit was filed after neighboring businesses reported seeing a large number of the... - Don Zook Building Collateral Settlement
Aledo, TX: (Feb-08-07) The city of Aledo a lawsuit against its developer, Don Zook, who used the former Save-A-Lot building, which burned in March 2006, as collateral for the TIF loan he took in which the city was required to co-sign the insurance checks. Judge Blackwood ruled that $472,499 left on Zook's loan be paid from the fire insurance money. The... - Louisville Police Department DNA Wrongful Conviction Settlement
LOUISVILLE, KY: (Feb-08-07) William Gregory filed claims against the city that he was falsely arrested by officers in the Louisville Police Department, causing him to endure years of degradation behind bars. Gregory was convicted in 1993 of raping one woman and attempting to rape another. He was freed in 2000 after DNA tests showed that seven hairs foun... - Deutsche Bank AG Privacy Breach Fine
New York, NY: (Feb-08-07) The New York Stock Exchange charged Deutsche Bank with failure to report conflicts of interest. The lawsuit alleged a significant number of the firm's published research reports, as well as public appearances by research analysts, omitted required conflict-of-interest disclosures over a period of nearly two years. NYSE Regulati... - Irvine Unified School District Teacher Gifts Settlement
Irvine, CA: (Feb-08-07) Thomas and Liya Lin filed a claim in November 2006, accusing the Irvine Unified School District employees of coercing the couple into giving more than $100,000 in gifts so their autistic child could receive proper care. The couple claimed that they had to provide teachers, aides, and an administrator at Canyon View Elementary wit... - Hamilton Sundstrand Clean Water Act Violations Settlement
Hertford, CT: (Feb-08-07) Windsor Locks-based Hamilton Sundstrand pleaded guilty to criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act before a judge in US District Court in Hartford. The settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency and Connecticut state Department of Environmental Protection totals around $12 million including all fines, fees, a... - Internal Revenue Service Winn-Dixie Tax Refund Settlement
Miami, FL: (Feb-08-07) Twenty claims were filed by the IRS against grocer, Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. Co-counsel for Winn-Dixie told the US Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Florida that Winn-Dixie will receive around $19 million from the IRS before February 13, 2007. Winn-Dixie claimed in the original filing that it was owed tax refunds from the IRS for... - Interview with Permax lawyers Paul R. Dahlberg and Anthony J. Nemo
Apr-17-07 Rochester, MN Over 500,000 people have taken Permax and lawyers Paul R. Dahlberg and Anthony Nemo of Meshbesher & Spence estimate that tens of thousands of those people are likely affected with heart damage, particularly moderate to severe valve regurgitation, because of this drug. Dahlberg and Nemo are currently representing people injured after usin... - $3.5 Million in Damages Awarded to Former UBS Stockbroker in Sex Bias Case
Apr-23-07 A federal jury awarded over $3.5 million in damages on April 13, 2007 to a former stockbroker who filed suit in 2003 against UBS Financial Services Inc. for sex discrimination. Of that $3.5 million, $3 million represented punitive damages. The case is entitled Roberta C Tse v. UBS Financial Services, Inc., 03 Civ. 6234 (GEL). Roberta Tse, a former Fin... - Oakland Police Department Pepper Spray Tree Fall Settlement
Oakland, CA: (Feb-08-07) In what has come to be known as one of the largest police misconduct settlements approved by the council in recent years, the Oakland City Council agreed to pay $300,000 to Shawn Wrigley, who fell from a tree after Oakland police officers responding to a report of a prowler doused him with pepper spray. Wrigley fractured his pel...