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Alexandria City, VA: (Jun-13-07) The family of 18-year-old Aaron Brown, who was shot and killed by Alexandria police officer Carl Stowe in the parking lot of an International House of Pancakes (IHOP), filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city. Stowe had been working off-duty at an IHOP as a security guard when he chased Brown and his friends out of t... - Wood River Capital Management Securities Rights Registration Settlement
San Jose, CA: (May-23-07) Endwave Corporation, a manufacturer of RF modules that enable the transmission, reception and processing of high-frequency signals in telecommunications networks, defense electronics and homeland security systems, filed suit against Wood River Capital Management and its affiliates over registration rights. In a settlement re... - Possible Chevron Oil Kickbacks Settlement
New York, NY: (May-07-07) United States prosecutors filed suit against Chevron, the second-largest American oil company, over alleged kickbacks that were being paid to Saddam Hussein on oil it bought from Iraq as part of a now defunct United Nations program. Chevron is preparing to acknowledge that it should have known about the kickbacks and that the admi... - Edward Waters College Student Shooting Wrongful Death Settlement
Jacksonville, FL: (May-06-07) The family of Johnathan Wesley Glenn, an 18-year-old student at Edward Waters College, filed charges against the college after Glenn was fatally shot a day after he wrote an essay critical about campus safety. Glenn was a freshman when two men approached him and demanded a sports jersey he was wearing, his cell phone and wal... - Lumberton, NC City Hall Construction Contract Settlement
Lumberton, NC: (Mar-28-07) Pro Construction filed suit against the city of Lumberton in March 2006 alleging that the city owed it $519,000 for the construction of the new City Hall. The contractor said it was owed $519,000 for the project, which has already cost the city $5.5 million. But city officials contended that the four-year project finished 260 day... - GE Healthcare Finland Oy Capital Adjustments Settlement
Hawthorne, CA: (Mar-27-07) OSI Systems, Inc., a vertically integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, filed suit against GE Healthcare Finland Oy regarding working capital adjustments and other matters arising from OSI's March 2004 acquisition of Spacelabs Medical. In a sett... - Fujimino Municipal Government and Taiyo Kanzai Security Company Pool Filter Wrongful Death Settlement
Saitama, Japan: (Mar-24-07) The parents of a girl who died when she was sucked into a filter pipe at a swimming pool in July 2006 sued the Fujimino Municipal Government and Taiyo Kanzai security company, which was entrusted to supervise the pool. In a settlement reached in the wrongful death lawsuit, the parents were compensated close to 100 million yen, a... - Paramount Financial Group, Inc. et al. Fire Victims Settlement
Columbus, OH: (Feb-27-07) A legal settlement was reached with the families of the ten victims who succumbed to a fire that devastated a wooden skeleton exposed above melted siding and almost a completely burned off roof. An agreement was reached with owner Paramount Financial Group, Inc. of Granville; property management company RLJ Management Co. of G... - Movie Gallery Inc., Empire Equity Group, and Home Finance Mortgage Inc. Customer Information Violation Fine
Greensboro, NC: (Feb-08-07) The state of North Carolina filed suit against three businesses for illegally disposing of files containing personal customer information including credit card and social security details, thereby putting them at risk for identity theft. The lawsuit was filed after neighboring businesses reported seeing a large number of the... - Sony BMG Music Entertainment Privacy Infringement Reimbursement
The Federal Trade Commission charged the music giant Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating federal laws after it sold CDs without telling consumers that they contained software limiting the devices on which the music could be played, restricted the copies that could be made, and contained technology that monitored their listening habits. The law... - Foodstaff and Symphony Design Group Halloween Party Personal Injury Settlement
Jacksonville, Florida - Jeremy Phillips was attending a Halloween party dressed as a hockey player and was attacked from behind for no apparent reason. A nineteen year old intoxicated partygoer tackled Phillips into the side of a car. He sustained a debilitating elbow injury. Phillips filed a lawsuit against the company hosting the party Symphony Design... - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and The Wackenhut Corp. Store Clerk Wrongful Death Settlement
On January 19, 2005 19-year-old Megan LeAnn Holden was working the night shift at Wal-Mart Super Center in Tyler, TX. Holden was kidnapped from the store parking lot, raped and then killed. Her body was found on the side of a highway in West Texas, about 400 miles from her home. Johnny Lee Williams Jr. pleaded guilty to capital murder, saying he kidnapp... - Fox News Network Female Employee Gender Discrimination Settlement
In November 2005, a lawsuit claimed that Fox News Vice President Joe Chillemi used obscene terms to describe women and their body parts. As well, during a department discussion about discrimination in the workplace, he said that when choosing between hiring a man or a woman, he would pick the man because a woman "would most likely get pregnant and leave... - Ralphs Grocery Co. fraud Settlement
During a 2003 strike and lockout, Ralphs Grocery Co. allegedly hired hundreds of workers under fake names and violated laws involving employee benefits and record-keeping for the Social Security Administration and Internal Revenue Service. The grocery store chain has agreed to pay $70 million in restitution and fines including $50 million to Ralphs empl... - Zhijian Chen Anti-Spyware Fraud Settlement
Washington State has settled an $84,000 spyware lawsuit with Zhijian Chen, an Oregon man, who allegedly marketed bogus anti-spyware software called "spyware cleaner". Chen made thousands of dollars by sending e-mails and posting advertising meant to mislead the public into believing their computers were infected by a virus and that "spyware cleaner" co... - Albertsons and S & J Security Teenager Holding Settlement
In June 2004, four teenagers, two girls and two boys, were held by security guards for hours in an Albertsons supermarket office after allegedly trying to walk out of the store with a bottle of vodka. The two male guards, Omar Maurice Ray and Jermar Jackson, forced the teens to drink the bottle of vodka. One of the girls was intoxicated and was taken in... - Medirate Professional Pharmacy Inc. Controlled Substances Settlement
The wholesale closed door pharmacy dba Medicate Long Term Pharmacy distributes controlled substances to customers in nursing homes and prisons. Medirate informed the Drug Enforcement Administration that 300,000 doses of several controlled substances went missing from their pharmacy. Charges were filed against the company for lack of security. Several fo... - Peer-to-Peer Networking
Since 1999, when Shaun Fanning announced the development of Napster, the first file sharing system to offer users the ability to swap copyrighted material relatively anonymously, the issue of peer-to-peer networks has been a the center of a heated argument. The argument is between those who see this as a major threat to their incomes (movie and mu... - credit repair fraud lawsuit
Has a credit repair or credit counseling company violated your rights? Innocent consumers with bad credit or poor credit histories are continually scammed by companies promising to repair their credit rating or credit report. Jodie Bernstein, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection in Washington, D.C., notes t... - Sony BMG Music Entertainment Pay to Play Settlement
The company allegedly gave a program director of a San Diego radio station a 32 inch plasma TV in exchange for adding JLo's songs to her play list. Sony BMG also asked the programmer to provide a fictitious contest winner's name and Social Security number to cover up her involvement. Pay for play is improper and illegal. New York Attorney General clai...