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Wilmington, DE: (Feb-08-07) The Stepan Company, one of the largest manufacturers of solvents used in cleaning solvents and fluids, a former owner of the now defunct chemical plant on Eames Street, revealed that it had reached an out-of-court settlement worth millions of dollars with nearly two dozen Wilmington residents. Nineteen unnamed residents alleg... - Dynamic Cable Construction and Reata Construction Company Flood Damage Settlement
Dallas, TX: (Feb-08-07) A lawsuit against Dynamic Cable Construction and Reata Construction Company reached a $2.33 million settlement to compensate the US for flood damage that occurred in September 2000 to two federal buildings in downtown Dallas. Several buildings suffered extensive damage resulting from a catastrophic break of a 30-inch pressurized... - Ukiah Unified School District Impact Fees Settlement
Ukiah, CA: (Feb-08-7) Local developer Steve Gomes filed a lawsuit against the Ukiah Unified School District, challenging the impact fees charged by the school. A state Court of Appeals recently ordered Ukiah Unified to pay back Gomes the $112,000 plus interest that he paid in school impact fees between February 2001 and January 2002, for 32 of the hom... - Columbus, OH and Mayor Art Westergaard Jr. Police Cheif Defamantion Settlement
Columbus, OH: (Feb-09-07) A lawsuit was filed by chief of police Gerald Sallmann and his wife Karolina against former Mayor Art Westergaard Jr. and the city alleging that Westergaard had bypassed the Columbus Police and Fire Commission and that he had defamed the couple and interfered with the operation of the police department. The Columbus City Counci... - Royce and Mary Evans Gavilan Fire Damage Settlement
Fallbrook, CA: (Feb-07-07) Multiple lawsuits filed in the Superior Court over the cause of the Gavilan fire that ravaged Fallbrook in 2002, reached joint settlement in 2006 according to court records. The lawsuits claimed that embers left over from a cleanup effort on Evans Ranch caused the Gavilan fire. However, ranch owners denied the allegations, a... - Agrium US Inc. and Royster-Clark Inc. NOx Pollution Settlement
Washington, DC: (Feb-06-07) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fined the nitric acid production facility in October 2006 for making construction modifications to a North Bend, OH facility in the mid-1990s without first obtaining necessary federal pre-construction permits and installing the required pollution control equipment. The un-permitted mo... - Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. Employees Overtime Settlement
Quincy, MA: (Feb-07-07) The US Department of Labor filed suit against Vatterott Educational Centers for violations of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The investigation took place during the latter part of 2005 and into 2006. The initial investigation began with two Vatterott locations in Omaha, NE, and was eventually expanded to... - Allied Realty Corporation Lead-Based Paint Violations Penalty
Philadelphia, PA: (Feb-07-07) The Environmental Protection Agency filed a federal lawsuit against the Bethesda, MA real estate and property management firm claiming it failed to disclose information on lead-based paint to tenants in 13 rental properties in Washington, DC and Maryland suburbs between November 2001 and May 2004. Allied Realty has agreed t... - El Paso Corp. Illegal Surcharges Settlement
Houston, TX: (Feb-07-07) A lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against El Paso Corp. under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, accused the company of illegal surcharges paid to Iraq related to the United Nations Oil for Food Program. The SEC said El Paso's accounting for its Oil for Food transactions failed to record the natu... - Turner Construction and Studios Architecture Milpitas City Hall Contract Settlement
Milpitas, CA: (Feb-07-07) In a lawsuit charging international contractor, Turner Construction and San Francisco's Studios Architecture, with misrepresentation of facts and failure to stick to the contract, the city of Milpitas won a $4.5 million settlement. The $38 million City Hall project was finally completed in 2002, a year later than scheduled and... - Warner Bros. Granite Broadcasting Contract Settlement
Washington, DC: (Feb-07-07) Granite Broadcasting Corp. sued Warner Bros. (WB) in 2006 over its decision not to extend the terms of the network-affiliation pacts, which damaged Granite and its units, costing Granite $180 million. At the time, Granite was in a deal to sell its San Francisco and Detroit stations to AM Media Holdings LLC for $180 million. T... - MBIA Inc. Securities Fraud Bond Settlement
Armonk, NY: New York State and federal regulators filed a securities fraud and misuse of finite reinsurance lawsuit against MBIA Inc. The investigations into the financial guarantee insurer alleged use of sham reinsurance transactions in 1998 to mask a $170 million bond loss incurred on its guarantee of bonds issued by a bankrupt unit of Allegheny Healt... - Canon Employee Technology Settlement
Tokyo, Japan: Kazuo Minoura, an engineer employed by Canon received 33.5 million yen (US $275,000) for profits his work earned Canon. A ruling in Tokyo District Court by presiding judge Ryuichi Shitara finally ended the lawsuit filed in 2003 by Minoura who demanded 1 billion yen (US $8.2 million) in compensation for his role in developing the technology... - Edge Hospital, Sheffield Medical Malpractice Settlement
Chesterfield, UK: Oxygen starvation at birth resulted in Nicholas Smith's spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, a rare form of brain damage. Smith, now 27, was born in Nether Edge Hospital, Sheffield. He was a breech baby delivered by forceps, but his lawyers argued that there had been a negligent delay of two hours in delivering him and said that medics... - Monster Garage host Jesse James Air Quality Violations Penalty
Long Beach, CA: Jesse James, ''Monster Garage'' reality show host was charged with violating California's air quality laws by selling motorcycles that did not meet the state's strict emissions standards. West Coast Choppers, his Long Beach motorcycle building venture, sold more than 50 new or custom-built motorcycles between 1998 and 2005 that were not... - Charles and Cynthia Bluth, Charles Manchester, and F & B, Inc. Environmental Violations Settlement
Lake Tahoe, NV: In a legal case accusing Lake Tahoe developer, Charles Bluth, of illegal construction work around his multi-million dollar lakefront home, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board agreed on a settlement that amounted to $250,000. The two-year-old case charged the defendants with grading, creation of coverage, and landscaping vi... - Carolina Tobacco Company Oregon Registration Settlement
Portland, OR: A lawsuit begun in 2003 that questioned Carolina Tobacco Company's (CTC) legal standing to submit Oregon certifications and make the escrow payments as required as a manufacturer under the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The issue branched out into several different lawsuits. Carolina Tobacco Company announced two settlement agreement... - Farmand, Farmand & Farmand Employee Theft Settlement
Nassau County, NY: Former court employee clerk Julie Mixon, prior to committing suicide, confessed to state law investigators in April 2005 that she stole cash from the office for years. The clerk's office and law enforcement say the theft totaled more than $1 million. Nassau County's former auditor Farmand, Farmand & Farmand will pay $500,000 to replac... - Clarksville Police Department City Discrimination Settlement
Clarksville, TN: The Clarksville City Council has settled three lawsuits out of 14 filed for discrimination, by current and former police officers. One was dismissed, and two have been settled out of court for a total of $265,000. The city is appealing federal jury awards of $775,000 to three officers. Seven other lawsuits have yet to go to trial. Clark... - Cleveland, OH Police Officer Discrimination Settlement
Cleveland, OH: A federal jury in Cleveland awarded $800,000 to a white police officer, Edward Lentz Jr., on finding that the city racially discriminated against him by assigning him to undesirable duty after he shot and wounded a black boy. Lentz had argued his treatment was harsher than that of black officers who shot black people, and that he was being...