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A $1.5 million settlement has been reached in the free-speech lawsuit filed filed in 1998 claiming that the company lied in their public relations campaign refuting accusations of dire workplace conditions in Asian factories. The company claimed that they were truthful in the campaign, and that it was protected by the first amendment of the US constitutio... - Settlements and Verdicts: Hewlett-Packard Co.
has won the first trial of almost three dozen lawsuits filed on behalf of consumers. The suits claimed that the company deceived consumers when it sold printers with half-full ink cartridges. The jury found that consumers did not expect the cartridges supplied in new printers to be the same as the replacement cartridges they purchased. (Sep-12-03) [ DE... - Settlements and Verdicts: Hubler Ford Lincoln-Mercury.
Customers who bought or leased vehicles from Hubler Ford between Aug. 1, 1999, and July 1, 2000, and whose signatures on the contracts were allegedly written by someone else, will receive about $5,000 each from Hubler Ford Lincoln-Mercury to settle a lawsuit that alleged their sales contracts were forged to sell them extended warranties. (Nov-09-02) [ EMA... - Settlements and Verdicts: Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation, CO.
A $5 million verdict has been found in the defamation lawsuit filed against the Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of Colorado and its monk, Cuong Kim Le. The suit was filed by sisters Thu Ho and Thi Ho and their father, Ngo Ho, alleging that Le had sexually assaulted the sisters as teenagers, then tried to discredit the family when they complained. (Sep-... - Settlements and Verdicts: General Electric Co.
A $1.4 million settlement has been reached in the state lawsuit against General Electric Co. claiming that the company had engaged in deceptive practices. New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed the suit in March 2000 claiming that GE had deceived thousands of consumers into buying a new dishwasher when they concealed that recalled models could be... - Settlements and Verdicts: Huntington Beach, California.
A $2.25 million verdict has been reached in the lawsuit filed against the city of Huntington Beach, California. The suit was filed by the family of 18-year-old Antonio Saldivar who was fatally shot by police in May 2001 in a mistaken identity incident. (Aug-15-03) [ ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and wo... - Settlements and Verdicts: Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill.
Talk to a local DUI attorney right away! A $40,000 settlement has been reached in the discrimination lawsuit filed against Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill. The suit was filed by black former employee Dwight Burch who claimed that he was discriminated against by his manager, a light-skinned black man, because of his dark skin tone. Burch claime... - Settlements and Verdicts: Transportation Security Administration.
A settlement has been reached in the racial profiling lawsuit filed against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on behalf of naturalized American Bob Rajcoomar who was illegally detained by Federal Air Marshals. The Marshals claimed that Rajcoomar, a Guyana-born ethnic Asian Indian and retired U.S. Army physician, was "watching too closely" w... - Settlements and Verdicts: Equifax.
A $250,000 settlement has been reached between credit bureau Equifax and the Federal Trade Commission to resolve charges that the company did not do enough to answer calls from consumers inquiring about their credit reports. The actions listed in the charges were in violation of an earlier settlement between Equifax and the Commission that was reached in... - Settlements and Verdicts: Medco Health Solutions.
A $42.5 million settlement has been reached and granted preliminary approval in a series of ERISA-related class-action lawsuits filed against Medco Health Solutions. Eligible class members in the suits include ERISA plans for which Medco Health has administered a pharmacy benefit at any time since Dec. 17, 1994. The hearing to approve the settlement will... - Settlements and Verdicts: State of California.
A $1.97 million verdict has been found in the discrimination suit filed against the state of California on behalf of Bruce Hope, 41, of Los Angeles. Hope filed the suit alleging years of discrimination and verbal harassment because he was gay. He further claimed that he had been denied a promotion and pressured to quit based on the fact that he is HIV... - Settlements and Verdicts: Raleigh Housing Authority.
A jury has awarded eleven people $18,000 each in the lawsuit filed against the Raleigh Housing Authority on behalf of nearly 300 current and former residents of the Walnut Terrace Housing Project. The suit was filed in reference to a boiler which leaked fumes, causing two people to die from carbon monoxide poisoning and may others to become sick. (Jul-2... - Settlements and Verdicts: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup.
A $236 million settlement has been reached between the Securities and Exchange Commission and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup, the nation's two largest banks. The Commission charged the banks with helping Enron Corp. to hide debts and defraud investors. In addition, the banks have agreed to pay New York City and New York state $50 million to sett... - Settlements and Verdicts: Bozeman School District in Montana.
A $160,000 settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against the Bozeman School District in Montana. The suit was filed by the family of Kelly Morgan who was killed in a drunk driving accident following the 2000 homecoming dance. The parents claimed that there was lax supervision on the part of the school, stating that the boy who drove the car, Br... - Settlements and Verdicts: Libya.
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of the families of 270 people who were killed in the 1988 bombing of a Pam Am jetliner. Under the terms of settlement, a $2.7 billion fund will be established by the Libyan government to compensate the families, who would receive at least $5 million each. The terror attack occurred over Scotla... - Settlements and Verdicts: Microsoft Corp.
A $520.6 million award has been found in the lawsuit filed against Microsoft Corp. by Eolas Technologies. The suit alleged that Microsoft infringed on patents for Eolas' technology that allows the use of plugins and applets in Web browsers. The suit further claimed that Microsoft used the patented technology in order to make Internet Explorer a viable co... - Settlements and Verdicts: Sta-Rite Industries.
A $104 million verdict has been found in the lawsuit filed against Sta-Rite Industries Inc. on behalf of the family of Lorenzo Peterson. On June 17, 2000 a Sta-Rite single-horsepower pump trapped Peterson underwater for several minutes, causing irreversible brain damage. The suit claimed that the pump was unsafe, yet the company made no efforts to modif... - Settlements and Verdicts: City of McKinney, TX.
A $1.45 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed against the city of McKinney, TX regarding an accidental police shooting. The suit was filed by the family of Cathey Jo Howard-Kalimah who was accidentally shot and killed in her home on June 5, 2001 by Officer Joyce VanDertuin. Howard-Kalimah was mistaken for an intruder when she was shot,... - eBay patent infringement settlement.
A $29.5 million verdict has been found against eBay in the patent-infringement lawsuit filed against the Internet auction house by Thomas G. Woolston. Woolston, a Virginia inventor, claimed that the way the company conducts sales of fixed-price merchandise infringed on patents that belong to him. In addition to the monetary settlement, the company will im... - Settlements and Verdicts: City of East Haven, Connecticut.
A $2.5 million dollar verdict has been awarded to the family of Malik Jones in their wrongful death suit filed against the city of East Haven, Connecticut. The 21-year-old black man was shot and killed by a white police officer, Sgt. Robert Flodquist, in 1997. The jury found that the officer used excessive force when he shot Jones after a car chase that...