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Sort by date 16,481 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry Patent Settlement
NTP Inc. filed a lawsuit against the maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices regarding a patent dispute. Research In Motion has agreed to pay a $612.5 million settlement to end the four year legal battle. The one-time payment covers all Blackberry business areas including licenses granted to carriers and device makers. Shares of the Ontario based company ros... - Kelley Lynch Leonard Cohen Settlement
Singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen filed a lawsuit against his former business manager for allegedly stealing $5 million from his retirement savings, personal accounts and investments. Lynch worked for Cohen for 17 years, but after her position was terminated, she refused to return photographs, records and memorabilia. A Superior Court judge granted Co... - Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals et al. Consumer Fraud Settlement
A lawsuit was filed against Lifekey Inc., Boland Naturals Inc., Warner Health Care, Wagner Nutraceuticals and Berkeley Premium Nutraceuticals for allegedly violating state consumer laws. The lawsuit claimed the companies automatically signed customers up to a negative option feature without their knowledge. When consumers placed an initial order for a f... - International Brotherhood of Teamsters CEO Wrongful Termination Settlement
Ernest Tusino was elected chief executive officer of Local 170 in Worcester in 1988 but was ousted eight years later for publicly endorsing James Hoffa in the 1996 general election. A court judge found the Teamsters action against Tusino was a purposeful and deliberate attempt to suppress dissent within the union. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd C... - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. San Francisco Power Outage Settlement
On December 20, 2003 a fire broke out in PG&E's unmanned Mission substation. A cable failure started the fire that burned for about two hours before crews from the utility responded. The fire caused extensive smoke damage to the facility and left 119,000 customers in San Francisco without power for up to 30 hours. The California Public Utilities Commiss... - Retirement Seminar Fraud: Seniors Beware
May-11-06 There's no such thing as a free lunch. Unfortunately, many seniors are discovering how costly "free" lunches or dinners can be when they are disguised as retirement seminars. Senior investment fraud is on the rise. The obvious reason is demographics: baby boomers are reaching the retirement age; our population is not only aging but seniors are living long... - Tutor-Saliba Construction Over Billing Settlement
The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against the construction company for allegedly over billing for work performed at the San Francisco International Airport. The lawsuit claimed Tutor-Saliba defrauded the city out of millions of dollars by overcharging for work and allegedly falsely claimed to be using minority subcontractors in order to comply w... - Admanco Inc. Employee Lay Off Notice Settlement
The promotional products manufacturer filed for receivership on December 30, 2004 and laid off all of its workers within one month. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of approximately 180 former employees after being laid off without adequate warning. Wisconsin businesses that employ more than 25 full time employees are required to provide 60 days written no... - Ceres, Soares Dairy and Luis Bento Dairy Employee Wage Settlement
California Rural Legal Assistance filed a lawsuit on behalf of current and former employees of the three dairy companies alleging violations of minimum wages, overtime wages, compensation for rest and meal breaks not received and penalties. Bento and Soares have agreed to a $185,000 settlement. Bento employees who worked between November 2000 and Novemb... - Qwest Communications International Inc. Phone Surcharge Settlement
The telecommunications company was charging residents and business $0.07 per month to offset phone service costs for low income residents. Colorado Public Utilities Commission claimed the surcharges were unjust and Qwest has agreed to pay a $5.5 million settlement. With the settlement money, the Public Utilities Commission has authorized a decrease in t... - Ex-Pfizer VP Peter Rost Takes On Goliath
May-9-06 Beginning in 1997, Pharmacia, currently a subsidiary of Pfizer, sought to boost its sales of the drug Genotropin. To that end, the company illegally marketed the drug to spur growth in short children and as an anti-aging drug for adults looking for the fountain of youth. In a nutshell, the off-label marketing scheme included: (1) direct payments to doct... - Convergys Corp. Employee Pre-Shift Work Settlement
The U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit on behalf of approximately 1,400 current and former Tucson call center employees who worked for the company between September 2002 and April 2005. The lawsuit claimed Convergys failed to compensate workers for time they spent at work preparing for their shift. The company has agreed to pay a $350,000 settleme... - Monsanto Co. BST Patent Infringement Settlement
The University of California filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the biotechnology company regarding Bovine Somatotropin hormone that makes cows produce more milk. The university claimed three of its San Francisco researchers first isolated the DNA used to produce the hormone and that Monsanto knew about the research as early as 1985, but sold t... - Greedy Airline Cargo Carriers
May-1-06 The list of airlines under investigation in air cargo price fixing just gets longer. According to the European Commission (EU) more than 16 airlines have been requested to provide information about possible agreements on surcharges by the carriers to offset some external costs. Class action lawsuits were filed after several businesses (e.g. Fleurchem Inc... - Louisville Metro Government Extreme Park Injury Settlement
In July 2002, 11-year-old Wesley Woods was riding his bicycle through the city's Extreme Park. He fell head first into a 12-foot concrete bowl and suffered brain damage. Wesley's family filed a personal injury lawsuit against Louisville Metro claiming it failed to set up warnings or safety barriers. Wesley, now 15, was awarded a $1.5 million settlement... - Kids Dying From Off-Label Use Of Antipsychotics
May-5-06 A recent USA Today sponsored review of the FDA database from 2000 to 2004 found at least 45 deaths in children under 18 with atypical antipsychotics listed as the "primary suspect," and 1,328 reports of other serious side effects, some life-threatening. Atypical antipsychotics are a relatively new class of drugs approved by the FDA for the treatment of a... - Nutraquest Inc. et al. Ephedra Diet Pills Settlement
More than 130 individual cases were filed against the supplement maker alleging injury related to the use of Ephedra in diet pills. Ephedra is an amphetamine like herbal substance that was banned in 2004. Precisely 138 lawsuits were filed by supplement users or their survivors. Nutraquest and dozens of other firms have agreed to pay a $34 million settle... - Elpida Memory Inc. DRAM Antitrust Settlement
Charges were filed against the Japanese computer chip company in a federal court in San Francisco for allegedly conspiring with other companies to fix the prices of memory chips known as dynamic random access memory, or DRAM. Two charges were filed against Elpida, one count of conspiring with other manufacturers to fix DRAM prices between 1999 and 2002... - Chicago Transit Authority Bus Accident Settlement
In 2001, Ki Shih was attending the University of Chicago. While bicycling to class on Hyde Park Boulevard, a bus traveling in the same direction, hit her. Shih was knocked her off her bicycle and run over. The university student suffered multiple fractures in her pelvis and filed a personal injury lawsuit against the Chicago Transit Authority who has ag... - Westmead Children's Hospital Medical Malpractice Settlement
In February 2001, Kim Carpenter took her son Joshua to the hospital with breathing problems. A tracheotomy was preformed, but during the procedure Joshua's breathing tube dislodged and his brain was starved of oxygen. He suffered brain damage and spastic cerebral palsy and was rendered blind. Joshua died on March 7, 2005. His mother filed a lawsuit agai...