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Salt Lake City, UT: (Feb-13-08) A multistate fraud lawsuit was brought against drugmaker Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc., by state Attorney generals, alleging that the company defrauded Medicaid programs by illegally inflating drug prices. The federal lawsuit claimed that from 1997 to 2004, Aventis told pharmacies and hospitals to charge Medicaid a higher p... - Housing Inmates, City of Renton pays Yakima County $1.7 million settlement
Yakima, WA: (Feb-13-08) Yakima County brought a lawsuit against the city of Renton, over issues regarding the housing of inmates in the Yakima County jail. Records show that the suit was filed counter to Renton's filing a claim to recover more than $400,000 spent to house inmates elsewhere. Yakima officials said that in 2006, Renton withdrew from a contr... - Domestic Police Brutality, Baton Rouge agrees to $30,000 settlement after tear gassing and beating a man
Baton Rouge, LA: (Feb-11-08) Levy Claiborne brought a lawsuit against East Baton Rouge, alleging that two Baton Rouge police officers sprayed tear gas on him and beat him with their nightsticks while arresting him on Feb. 4, 2006, for criminal mischief and resisting an officer. The police brutality lawsuit claims officers Stewart Tate and Carl Mayo kicked... - Assistant Harassment, Public Regulation Commission member David King agrees to $840,000 settlement for former employee
Las Cruces, NM: (Feb-08-08) Wyla Green brought a lawsuit against the city, accusing David King, a member of the state Public Regulation Commission, of sexually harassing her. Green originally filed a grievance against King in November 2003, accusing him of sexual harassment. She was fired the following March for allegedly falsifying time sheets, using her... - Stadium Eminent Domain, City of Arlington agrees to $2 million Dallas Cowboys stadium settlement
Arlington, TX: (Feb-11-08) A group of landowners, represented by the same legal counsel, brought a lawsuit against the city over eminent domain issues connected to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium. The property owners included Charlie Scott and Walter Herrington, who owned large numbers of rental houses in the neighborhood that were demolished for the stadiu... - Industrial Toxins, Solutia Inc. agrees to pay $3.6 million EPA settlement
New York, NY: (Feb-11-08) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against Solutia Inc., alleging that it was liable to compensate for costs incurred to clean a toxic industrial site in St. Louis. Records show that the EPA removed 55,000 tons of soil from the site that was contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls and lead. The agen... - Apparel Overtime, Yellow Rat Bastard agrees to $1.4 million wage and hour violations settlement
New York, NY: (Feb-12-08) The New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo brought charges against Yellow Rat Bastard, a trendy apparel retailer based in SoHo, alleging that it had unpaid wages and overtime violations at it facility. Records show that the suit grew out of a lawsuit that Cuomo's predecessor, Eliot Spitzer filed 14 months ago, seeking more than... - Juniper Ridge, Bend City agrees to pay Juniper Ridge Partners a $2.56 million settlement regarding city development
Bend City, OR: (Feb-07-08) Juniper Ridge Partners brought charges against Bend City, over issues pertaining to the development of Juniper Ridge. In a recent development in the case, sources revealed that the parties had reached a settlement in which the city agreed to pay Juniper Ridge Partners $2.56 million, which includes planning, marketing and legal ex... - Morgan Stanley, $750,000 gender discrimination settlement awarded to female broker
Reno, NV: (Feb-07-08) Deborah Dodson, a former Morgan Stanley broker, brought a lawsuit against Morgan Stanley, alleging that she faced gender discrimination at the firm's Tacoma, Washington branch. The suit stated that Dodson worked as a Morgan Stanley financial advisor from 1996 to 2005, and that the firm had tried to keep Dodson from speaking out public... - Retail Overtime, McLane Co. Inc. agrees to $1.5 million settlement for misclassifying employees as exempt
Temple, TX: (Feb-07-08) The US Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division brought a lawsuit against McLane Co. Inc., headquartered in Temple, Texas, alleging that the wholesale distributor of food and grocery products violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The suit claimed that the company had misclassified employees and did not pay overtime wages... - Bisexual Teacher, Ravenswood City School District pays former employee $41,000 wrongful termination and harassment settlement
Palo Alto, CA: (Feb-07-08) Emmit Hancock, a former fifth-grade teacher, brought a lawsuit against the Ravenswood City School District, alleging that he was forced to quit after admitting to students he was once gay. Records stated that on the first day of school in 2004, Hancock, a new teacher, said he heard some boys calling each other derogatory names us... - Fayette County Board of Education and Edgar Friedrichs Student Wrongful Death Settlement
In November 1997, elementary school principal, Edgar Friedrichs took 12-year-old Jeremy Bell for an overnight stay at a remote Thurmond cabin. Friedrichs forced Jeremy to ingest amitriptyline and chloroform so he could sexually assault his defenseless body. Jeremy died of toxic poisoning from the chemicals. His family filed a wrongful death lawsuit agai... - Lieutenant Racial Discrimination, Pennsylvania State Police pays former trooper $67,500 settlement
Erie, PA: (Feb-07-08) Lt. Billy Williams, a retired trooper, brought a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania State Police, alleging that he was racially discriminated against. Williams sued state police in 2003, claiming that racism at his Mercer County barracks forced his transfer twice. He alleged that caricatures of him were drawn next to the words "Negro"... - Transuranic Waste, Department of Energy pays $110,000 penalty for improper shipment screening
Carlsbad, NM: (Feb-07-08) The New Mexico Environment Department brought charges against the Department of Energy's Carlsbad Field Office (DOE), alleging that it improperly screened shipments of transuranic waste sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. The New Mexico Environment Department's suit claimed that Los Alamos National Laboratory technicians on... - Merck & Co. agrees to $650 million settlement for fraudulent drug pricing and improper kickbacks of Zocor and Vioxx
Washington, DC: (Feb-07-08) The US Justice Department brought charges against pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., alleging that the company engaged in fraudulent drug pricing and improper kickbacks. The suit was filed following a whistleblower complaint brought by former Merck employee, H. Dean Steinke, who claimed that the pharmaceutical firm violated the M... - Hackettstown Livestock Auction pays $40,000 personal injury settlement after an escaped cow causes a car crash
Belvidere, NJ: (Feb-7-08) Stephen Van Campen of Independence Township, a former Warren County Community College trustee, brought charges against the city and Hackettstown Livestock Auction, after he sustained injuries when an escaped cow collided with his car. Records show that the cow escaped May 18, 2003 from the Hackettstown Livestock Auction building o... - Unsuitable Blood, FDA fines Red Cross $4.6 million for distributing tainted blood products
Washington, DC: (Feb-6-08) The US Food and Drug Administration brought charges against the Red Cross, alleging that it distributed unsuitable blood products. The FDA made a formal announcement stating that it reviewed 113 recalls of blood products by the Red Cross from April 2003 to April 2006. The recalls involved the release of an estimated 4,094 unsuita... - Vista and Carlsbad pay $700,000 environmental settlement after 7.3 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Buena Vista Lagoon
San Diego, CA: (Feb-6-08) The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board brought charges against Vista and Carlsbad, alleging that a pipe break spewed 7.3 million gallons of raw sewage into Buena Vista Lagoon in 2007. Vista owns nearly 90% of the sewer line and Carlsbad owns the rest. Records state that the spill occurred March 31, 2007 when a 24-inch... - Fluorescent Light Disposal, US General Services Administration pays $23,000 EPA penalty for recycling waste violations
St. Thomas, VI: (Feb-6-08) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against the US General Services Administration (GSA), for allegedly violating federal hazardous waste rules at its building on St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands by disposing of fluorescent light bulbs as regular garbage. EPA officials stated that though fluorescent bu... - Predatory Practices, Blue Hippo agrees to $3 million settlement after selling expensive products to people with poor credit
Baltimore, MD: (Feb-6-08) The Maryland attorney general's office brought charges against Maryland-based company Blue Hippo in 2007, alleging that the company engaged in predatory practices. The lawsuit claimed that Blue Hippo sold computers and plasma TVs to people with poor or no credit. Sources close to the case stated that a settlement was reached in th...