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Five former Berlin Intermediate School female teachers filed a lawsuit against the school claiming gender harassment and misconduct by vice principal Darrell Birckett during the 2003-2004 school year. The women claimed Birckett touched them, made suggestive gestures, told offensive jokes and made obscene statements. The Worcester County Board of Educati... - York County, PA INS Detainee Numbers Settlement
The United States Justice Department filed charges against the county for allegedly inflating claims to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for housing INS detainees. York represented that the average daily population of York County Prison was 996 inmates, rather than 1,544 as the county reported separately to the state. The United States a... - Meyer Material Inc. Construction Worker Wrongful Death Settlement
On September 9, 2002, 34-year-old Daniel Hupe was struck by a cement truck while working on a taxi-way at an Aurora Municipal Airport construction site. Hupe was taken to the Provena Mercy Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. Hupe's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owner and operator of the cement truck. They have been awarded a $... - Yellow Pages Inc. Advertising Fraud Settlement
Between 2003 and 2004, Yellow Pages Inc. sent checks to thousands of businesses, schools and nonprofit organizations in 27 states throughout the US. Fine print on the checks' noted that once the checks were cashed, recipients were obligated to purchase one year of advertising for $179. Yellow Pages Inc. then used a collection firm to retrieve the fees a... - Microsoft and Autodesk z4 Technologies Patent Infringement Settlement
David Colvin, the founder of z4 Technologies, sued the two software companies in federal court, claiming they appropriated two of his antipiracy software patents with Microsoft's Office and Windows XP and Autodesk's AutoCad programs. A Texas Jury has ordered Microsoft to pay $115 million and Autodesk was required to pay $18 million in the patent infring... - PepsiCo Inc. Lead Soda Labels Settlement
The city of Los Angeles and the state of California filed a lawsuit against the beverage company for allegedly violating Proposition 65 by failing to warn consumers that labels contained lead. Pepsi bottled in Mexico is not supposed to be sold in Southern California as the labels can contain up to 45% lead. Some businesses bring Mexican imported Pepsi t... - Westra Construction Co. School Mold Settlement
In 2001, teachers and students from the new Chavez Elementary School filed a lawsuit against the building company for allegedly allowing mold to grow during construction. Plaintiffs reported suffering from asthma and other respiratory problems. After health conditions showed up, the school was closed, torn open, cleaned and reconstructed to rid classroo... - Larry Nighswander and Ohio University sexual harassment Settlement
Larry Nighswander and Ohio University. Rebecca Humes received a $350,000 settlement for dropping her sexual harassment suit against Larry Nighswander; former director of Visual Communications at Ohio University. Humes alleged Nighswander made inappropriate comments and fondled her breasts during a topless photo shoot. The university, the university insure... - New Haven Correctional Center Illegal Strip Search Settlement
A lawsuit was filed on behalf of 1,600 people arrested on minor charges who were allegedly illegally strip searched at the New Haven Correctional Center. From January 1998 through January 2001 a jail policy allowed full strip searches on everyone brought into the facility, regardless of the charges against them. During that same period, the state of Con... - Ciminelli Services Corp. and RBS Excavating Laborer Wrongful Death Settlement
Kevin Campbell Auchter was a culinary student who worked as a demolition laborer for Ciminelli. On February 24, 2000 at the age of 22, Kevin was killed during the demolition of two silos at the Monterey Coal Co. in Albers. He was preparing a silo for implosion when a huge chunk of concrete jarred loose from within the silo and hit him. Kevin's father, T... - San Francisco International Airport Immigrant Misconduct Settlement
San Francisco's federal court awarded Tsungai Tungwarara a $45,000 settlement of her lawsuit that alleged abuse and misconduct by airport immigration officials. At the age of 18, Tungwarara arrived in San Francisco from her native country of Zimbabwe to visit her mother. However, suspecting she had intentions of remaining in the U.S. illegally, im... - Hewlett-Packard Company Announces Recall of 85,000 Notebook Computer Batteries in the U.S.
April 20, 2006, Hewlett-Packard announced another Notebook battery recall due to risks of fire hazards and potential property damage. Over 15,000 batteries and 4,000 recalled batteries in the U.S. with L3 bar code label. October 14, 2005, Hewlett-Packard Company announced the recall of about 135,000 Notebook Computer Batteries world wide, with an esti... - Ford Motor Company wrongful termination Settlement
In this action, plaintiff Stephen B. Himmel ("Himmel") proved that he was wrongfully discharged in violation of Ohio Public Policy when he was discharged after an almost 20 year career at Ford Motor Company's ("Ford's") Sharonville, Ohio transmission plant. Specifically, Himmel proved that he was discharged as a result of his resistance, opposition, and... - Dydo Auto Sales Fraud Settlement
The Vermont attorney general's office has settled its case against Dydo Auto Sales and owner William J. Dydo Jr., who is alleged to have engaged in fraudulent activity contrary to the Vermont Consumer Fraud Act. Dydo will pay $90,000 in restitution and fines and will be prohibited from working in the auto sales or financing industry in Vermont for at le... - City of Venice, CA Jail Suicide Settlement
Venice City Council approved a $370,000 settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a man whose wife killed herself while in jail in 2003. Elizabeth Stebbins, a mother of two who suffered for years from alcoholism and depression, was found to have committed suicide in her prison cell on December 7, 2003. Her husband, Karl, claims Venice police... - Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company Bad Faith Settlement
A Judgment, which is ultimately expected to be worth over $6 Million dollars, was entered on Friday, March 17, 2006, in the case of David Jay v. Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company (nka Centre Life Insurance Company)("MCIC"), a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance, in the Stark County Court of Common Pleas, Stark County, Ohio (Case No. 2004 cv 00843) ... - Qualcomm Inc. and Flarion Technologies Inc. Merger Requirements Settlement
The Department of Justice filed civil antitrust charges against the two companies for allegedly violating pre-merger waiting period requirements. The Antitrust Division claimed Qualcomm obtained operational control in its acquisition in violation of government waiting periods required of merging companies. Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, companies underg... - City of Espanola, NM Jailed Student Settlement
In August 2004, 8-year-old Jerry Trujillo was sent to the school counselor's office after he hit another child with a basketball. Jerry then allegedly went out of control and refused to return to class. The police were summoned; they handcuffed the third grader and took him to the city jail where he was dressed in an orange jumpsuit and placed in a hold... - EchoStar Communications Corp. Patent Infringement Settlement
TiVo Inc. filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the parent of the Dish satellite television provider. TiVo claimed EchoStar used its technology without license for the satellite company's own digital video recorders. A jury in the U.S. District Court in Marshall found that EchoStar had willfully infringed TiVo's patent to pause and rewind live telev... - Accor North America Inc. Motel 6 Child Personal Injury Settlement
Accor North America Inc. has reached an undisclosed monetary settlement with Hitendra and Falguni Bhakta, the parents of a child who is alleged to have found and swallowed a used condom at the Motel 6 in Casper, Wyoming on May 26, 2003. It appears that the child, who was only two years of age at the time of the incident, was found choking on a used cond...