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Round Rock, TX: (Apr-16-07) On March 30, 2006, a group of Stony Point High School students left class to march to Round Rock High School as part of a series of nationwide protests against immigration laws. Police issued 209 citations against the students, accusing them of violating the city's youth curfew or disrupting class, leading to the students' and t... - NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Wrongful Deaths Settlement
Orlando, FL: (Apr-16-07) An out of court settlement was reached between NASA and the family members of the astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia in 2003. Investigations showed that Columbia was brought down in 2003 because a piece of insulating foam broke off the shuttle during liftoff and caused damage. Searing gases penetrated the shuttle upo... - Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson Wastewater Engineering Defects Settlement
Appomattox, VA: (Apr-11-07) The town of Appomattox filed a lawsuit against Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT), a Maryland-based engineering firm, accusing it of faulty engineering on one of the town's wastewater treatment plants. Appomattox filed a $2 million lawsuit in April 2005 after efforts to repair cracks and bows in the plant's storage basin, which... - Fleetwood Capital Development Housing Disability Discrimination Settlement
Washington, DC: (Apr-11-07) The US Department of Justice filed charges against Fleetwood Capital Development LLC, a Springfield, IL, development company, accusing it of discrimination after it refused to sell property in a Springfield-area subdivision because the buyer intended to house six persons with disabilities there. Fleetwood Capital and its princ... - $9 Million Settlement for Victim of Discrimination
California State University, at Fresno, has agreed to pay an ex-coach of the women's basketball team $9 million as settlement in a sex discrimination suit she brought against the University. Stacy Johnson-Klein said she lost her job because she endorsed greater opportunities for women athletes at the University. Hers is the third case involving sex disc... - Four Foreign Airlines Settle Antitrust Case for Price Fixing
Cathay Pacific Airways, Martinair and SAS Cargo Group, and Air France-KLM have agreed to pay $504 million in fines to settle charges they conspired to fleece customers by driving up cargo shipping prices. Air France-KLM has agreed to pay $350 million of the settlement. The Justice Department called the case one of the largest antitrust settlements in U... - Collins & Aikman Corp. Pension Plan Payments Settlement
Detroit, MI: (Apr-16-07) The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) brought charges against Collins & Aikman Corp., a Southfield, MI based auto parts maker, over a potential claim totaling $192 million in connection with funding obligations for its pension plan. Collins & Aikman said it stopped making minimum funding contributions to the plan in July 2006 r... - Countrywide Home Loans Inc. Excessvice Fees Settlement
Hartford, CT: (Apr-11-07) The state Department Of Banking filed a lawsuit against Countrywide Home Loans Inc., one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders, accusing it of charging Connecticut consumers excessive fees when they were approved for home loans. Countrywide was accused of charging fees - points, application charges and other administrative co... - Station Night Club Fire Settlements Reach $155 Million
An agreement was filed by American Foam Corp, for payment of $6.3 million to settle lawsuits from survivors and relatives of victims burned in the Station Night Club fire in Rhode Island, in 2003. One hundred people were killed in that fire. This settlement brings the total for all the settlements paid to-date in this case up to approximately $155 milli... - Settlement in TXI Riverside Cement Case
TXI Rverside Cement will pay $1 million and implement measures to reduce dust emissions near its plant, as mandated in a settlement reached with the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) of Rubidoux, California. Air monitors from the AQMD located in Rubidoux detected elevated levels of hexavalent chromium, which alerted them to problems at... - New Hampshire Couple Receive Multi-Million Dollar Settlement
A couple from New Hampshire were awarded a $9.5 million settlement for a suit they brought against a helicopter company and a helicopter parts maker last year. The couple survived a deadly crash in one of the company's helicopters while celebrating their wedding anniversary in Hawaii. The crash happened in March 2007. The wife is now paralyzed from the waist... - Newport News Water Reservoir Rights Settlement
Newport News, VA: (Apr-11-07) The Mattaponi Indian Tribe and Newport News reached a settlement in a nearly 10-year-old lawsuit about the city's controversial proposed King William Reservoir. Though Newport News Waterworks has worked for more than a decade on making the reservoir a reality, environmental groups opposed the project, arguing that it was overs... - Tropicana Casino & Resort Parking Garage Collapse Wrongful Death Settlement
Atlantic City, NJ: (Apr-11-07) The families of four men who died in a construction accident, when the parking garage at the Tropicana Casino & Resort collapsed on October 30, 2003 and 36 other workers stand to receive a $101 million settlement in the wrongful death and personal injury lawsuit. The suit alleged that the resort wanted to compete with the Bor... - Nortel Networks Corp. OSC Accounting Fraud Settlement
Toronto, Canada: (May-22-07) The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) had filed charges against telecom equipment maker Nortel Networks Corp., alleging that the company was guilty of misleading accounting practices and regulatory filings that were made several years ago. The suit stemmed from an investigation carried out by the OSC. The suit stated that Nor... - Chicago, IL Wrongful Convictions Settlement
Chicago, IL: (Apr-10-07) The city of Chicago reached a settlement with two of the four men who were wrongfully convicted in the 1986 rape and murder of medical student Lori Roscetti. Larry Ollins and Omar Saunders, who were falsely arrested and convicted in 1988 to life in prison, were later exonerated following DNA evidence. Three of the four who were arr... - Jeff Wyler Hiring Gender Discrimination Settlement
Cincinnati, OH: (Apr-07-07) Thirty-nine plaintiffs filed suit against tri-state auto dealer Jeff Wyler, alleging that they had been passed over for car sales jobs because of their gender. The case stems from a series of complaints that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received from about a dozen women who alleged that they had been discrimina... - Hawaiian Government Employees Association Settlement
Honolulu, HI: (Apr-05-07) The Public Employers (the state and the four counties) and the Hawaiian Government Employees Association (HGEA) have reached a tentative agreement in their negotiations involving certain white and blue collared bargaining units representing nearly 26,000 state and county government employees. The settlement involves a 4 percent an... - Bransom Elementary School District Pricipal Wrongful Termination Settlement
Burleson, TX: (Apr-05-07) After Principal Justin Kirk was asked to leave Bransom Elementary School following a suspension without any cause, he requested a public hearing before the school board. Administrators suspended Kirk in January 2007 and the district agreed to pay Kirk a lump sum of $30,000 in a negotiated settlement. The settlement agreement sta... - Johnson & Johnson Endoscopy Antitrust Settlement
Syracuse, NY: (Apr-05-07) Conmed Corp. filed suit against New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson in federal court in 2003, alleging that Johnson & Johnson was bullying hospitals into purchasing its products. The suit also alleged it was illegally using its monopoly as a maker of sutures to force hospitals to buy its surgical products, resulting in higher price... - Cendant Corp. CEO Severance Package Settlement
New York, NY: (Apr-06-07) Cendant Corp. CEO Henry Silverman retired from the conglomerate with a severance settlement far larger than he hoped for. In total, Silverman will walk away with almost $110 million. $62.53 million will be paid to Silverman as a severance package under the terms of employment from Cendant's car rental spin-off, Avis Budget Group I...