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Searcy, AR: (Sep-28-07) Denny Bishop, Searcy's former chief probation officer, brought a lawsuit against the city, alleging he was wrongfully terminated. Bishop filed the federal lawsuit against Mayor Belinda LaForce claiming he was fired for advocating equal pay for a female worker, Donya Garrett. He claimed Garrett was being discriminated against because... - Jack Kerouac Biography, Author returns $200,000 deposit after failing to meet deadline
New York, NY: (Sep-28-07) Penguin Group USA Inc. brought a lawsuit against author Douglas Brinkley, alleging that the writer breached contract by failing to deliver a biography on Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. Penguin stated that it had sued Brinkley, who is also a history teacher at Houston's Rice University, because he failed to finish the book in... - Drug Pricing, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. finalizes $499 million settlement
Boston, MA: (Sep-28-07) The US Department of Justice and the US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts brought a lawsuit against Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. following an investigation into the company's drug pricing, sales, and marketing activities. Under finalized terms, the company entered a five-year corporate integrity agreement with the Office of the... - Cell Phones Taxes, Sprint Nextel Corp. pays $2.375 million settlement to Springfield, MA for license gross receipt taxes
Springfield, MA: (Sep-27-07) The city of Springfield brought a lawsuit against Sprint Nextel Corp., over the collection of business license gross receipts tax. The city filed two separate lawsuits, one in US District Court in Jefferson City in May 2004, naming SBC, Sprint, Alltel, Cingular and Nextel as defendants, and the other in Greene County Circuit Co... - Target Pesticides, Retail chain pays EPA fine for unregistered products
Minneapolis, MN: (Sep-27-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency brought charges against Target Corp., the second-largest US discount store chain, alleging that the company violated federal rules governing the labeling and sale of pesticide products. The agency claimed that Target was selling unregistered pesticides from its stores and through its websi... - Police Excessive Force, Man stopped for speeding suffers broken rib and collapsed lung, awarded $365,000 settlement
Waite Park, MN: (Sep-28-07) Richard Town, a Sartell man, brought a lawsuit against the town, accusing two city officers of using excessive force during a traffic stop in 2005. Town accused officers Brad Thelen and Jerry Gangle of violating his civil rights and leaving him with a fractured rib and collapsed lung after a traffic stop east of St. Cloud. Court... - Raytheon Company Securities Settlement
From 1997 to 2001, the Raytheon Company was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C) for improper accounting practices at its aircraft unit. Raytheon, based in Waltham, Mass., manufactures Hawker and Beechcraft business jets. The company agreed on a $12 million settlement with the S.E.C. and recorded an expense of $12 million in th... - Tenet Healthcare global fraud Settlement
Tenet Healthcare Corp. allegedly defrauded Medicare, including manipulating the Medicare outlier system, up-coding Diagnosis Related Groupings (DRGs) and paying kickbacks to physicians. The Dallas based healthcare company, which owns 68 hospitals, has agreed to pay more than $700 million under a global settlement with the Justice Department. Tenet will... - Artificial Joint Kickbacks, Smith & Nephew pays $28.9 million settlement
Memphis, TN: (Sep-27-07) The US Department of Justice brought charges against a Memphis-based unit of British medical device maker Smith & Nephew, alleging that the company engaged in illegal kickbacks. The complaint alleged that the company used consulting contracts with doctors as bribes. The Department of Justice said it found instances in which doctors... - Pregnancy Leave Discrimination, Woman awarded settlement after returning to work with reduced pay and responsibilities
Scotland, UK: (Sep-27-07) Melanie Given, an accountant with Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping, an offshore oil-services company in Aberdeen, threatened to sue the firm and take it to an employment tribunal, alleging that she was discriminated against because she was pregnant. Her complaint stated that her high-flying career was reduced to little more than a p... - Scalding Death, Family of developmentally disabled woman awarded wrongful death settlement
Guthrie, OK: (Sep-26-07) The family of Julie Teenor, a developmentally disabled woman who died in 2005 after being scalded, brought a lawsuit against the Commission for Human Services, alleging that the wrongful death occurred as a result of negligence. The suit claimed that Teenor was receiving supported living services through the Developmentally Disable... - Condemned School Land, Lakeland School District pays $2.5 million settlement to build new school
Bartow, FL: (Sep-26-07) The Lakeland School District reached a settlement with retired teacher Patricia Martin, opening the doors of Lakeland's Highland Grove Elementary School. The Polk County School Board voted to settle a condemnation lawsuit stemming from the purchase of that land on Lakeland Highlands Road, just south of the Polk Parkway, for $2.5 mil... - Fatal Hit and Run, Postal workers' family awarded wrongful death settlement
Roanoke, VA: (Sep-27-07) The family of John William Edmonds Jr., a US Postal Service worker, brought a lawsuit against Terrance Wayne Dickerson, after Edmonds died in a 2004 hit and run accident. Dickerson panicked and drove off. He returned about half an hour later and turned himself in to police. Dickerson, 41, pleaded guilty in January 2005 to felony hi... - Insurance Fraud, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield pays fine for denying coverage to policyholders
Baltimore, MD: (Sep-25-07) Maryland state officials brought a lawsuit against CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, alleging that Maryland's largest health insurer improperly denied claims. The violations were revealed following an audit that was conducted in 2004. The complaint stated that the company had unethical business practices that led to the claims bein... - Lingerie Insider Trading, Consultant pays fine for insider trading regarding merger
New York, NY: (Sep-25-07) The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought charges against Joseph Keeney, a former consultant to Frederick's of Hollywood Inc., alleging that he traded inside information about a merger of the lingerie maker with New York-based Movie Star Inc., another intimate apparel company. Movie Star disclosed in November 2006 th... - Acccounting and Contracts, Electronic Data Systems pays fine for fraud
New York, NY: (Sep-25-07) The US Securities and Exchange Commission brought charges against Electronic Data Systems (EDS), alleging that an investigation showed accounting irregularities that occurred from 2001 to 2003. The suit claimed that EDS failed to fully disclose the costs of some derivatives contracts, used faulty assumptions to estimate revenue an... - Lord of the Rings Accounting, New Line Cinema pays Peter Jackson $125,000 in royalties
Los Angeles, CA: (Sep-24-07) Peter Jackson brought a lawsuit against New Line Cinema, alleging that the studio still owes him for the work that he did on The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) motion picture. In his suit, Jackson claimed that the studio used creative accounting to cheat him out of millions in royalties from the first chapter in his big-screen trilog... - Dry Cleaning Contamination, Couple pays EPA fine for groundwater contaminaiton.
Columbus, OH: (Sep-24-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought an environmental damage lawsuit against Dean and Colleen Soulliere, former owners of One Hour Martinizing, a Columbus dry cleaning business. The suit was filed over the cleanup of a groundwater contamination plume in the south-central portion of the city. The EPA filed a civil c... - Fatal Bus Fire, Families of 23 victims awarded undisclosed settlement
Bellaire, TX: (Sep-25-07) The families of 23 elderly residents of Sunrise Senior Living Services Inc., of McLean, VA, brought a lawsuit against the Bellaire nursing home, after their family members died in a bus fire near Dallas while evacuating from Hurricane Rita. The company operates Brighton Gardens of Bellaire, which leased two buses to evacuate resid... - Wall Township, NJ Hidden Camera Police Surveillance Settlement
Wall Township, NJ: (Sep-21-07) Over 50 Wall officers brought a federal lawsuit against Capt. Bernard Sullivan, Roy Hall, and the police department in US District Court in Trenton, over a hidden surveillance camera placed in the police headquarters locker room. Hall had previously stated that the camera was placed in the locker room following reports that a...