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Tallahassee, FL: Top officials alleged that more than $4.5 million in questionable payments to two companies that run five private prisons resulted from the state's contract concessions. After a Florida Senate leader asked for an investigation of her agency's settlement with one of the companies, Department of Management Services Secretary Linda South... - Rev. Martha Ann Englert Settlement
Madison, WI: In April 2005, a rare presentment brought against Rev. Martha Ann Englert by the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee accused her of conduct unbecoming a member of the clergy. The complaint set off nine months of canonic law proceedings that disrupted relationships within the historic congregation. The final hearing before an Ecclesiastical Trial... - Korrect Optical False Claims Settlement
New York, NY: Korrect Optical, based in Louisville, KY, manufactures and provides eyewear to veterans and other government entities under various federal and state contracts in New York State and Western New York. The defendant was charged with submitting false claims to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) through ophthalmic prescriptions for eyewear... - Ronald Kegler Assault Plastic Surgery Settlement
Norwalk, CT: Ronald Kegler punched his girlfriend in the face, creating a gash that required 52 stitches. The city man agreed to an unusual settlement in a plea agreement that includes a five-year suspended prison sentence and five years of probation. He agreed to pay a plastic surgeon to fix Kimberly Knight's scar. Police had been called to Kegler's ho... - D&S Builders Inc. Driver Accident Settlement
Adrian, MI: A lawsuit was filed in 2006 against Theodore Samuel Deboer claiming the 48-year-old Three Rivers man had ran a red traffic light in his pickup. His vehicle struck the side of Wavie Reeves' automobile as it started across the intersection, killing him instantly. Reeves' family filed a civil lawsuit against Deboer's employer. It claimed D&S Bu... - GE Capital Bank PPI Fraud Settlement
The Financial Services Authority clamped down on GE Capital Bank for rogue sales of payment protection insurance (PPI) policies. The bank also failed to have adequate systems and controls for selling insurance. Investigations revealed that insufficient sales training and unsatisfactory customer service were just few of GE Capital Bank's failings. A fine... - Gateway to a Cure Charity Raffle Fraud Settlement
St Louis, LA: St. Louis County Circuit Judge Steven Goldman decreed that St. Louis County-based charity, Gateway to a Cure, must pay more than $3.6 million in restitution and penalties for fraudulent raffles supposedly to help spinal cord injury research. He agreed with Missouri Attorney General's Office that Gateway engaged in unlawful methods, acts, u... - Manatee County Sheriff's Department Brothers Wrongful Arrest Settlement
Bradenton, FL: Brothers Jeremy Hart, 21, and Aramis Mapps, 17 sued the Manatee County Sheriff's Department for being falsely accused in a drive-by shooting. The lawsuit claimed they were traveling home in their mother's car on May 20, 2005, when police cruisers surrounded them, pointed guns at them, threatened to shoot, handcuffed them, and placed them... - Collingswood High School Teacher Discrimination Settlement
Daniel Curcio, a former high school Spanish teacher at Collingswood High School filed a federal lawsuit in 2004, saying the school board violated New Jersey antidiscrimination laws and the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Curcio claimed he was discriminated against on admission of his sexual orientation and verbally harassed by colleagues. In Novem... - Priceline, Travelocity, and Cingular Adware Installation Penalty
Albany, NY: In a lawsuit filed in April 2006, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office charged Direct Revenue LLC with installing adware programs onto millions of consumers' computers worldwide to deliver advertisements, monitor Web sites and collect data. The programs are difficult to uninstall as well as serve a potential threat to the system... - TJ Web Productions Explicit Emails Settlement
As part of a crackdown on X-rated spam announced in July 2005, seven companies were charged with violating federal laws. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice targeted TJ Web Productions, based in Nevada who was also charged with violating FTC's Adult Labeling and the Can-Spam Act. Under the settlement, TJ Web Productions h... - Stratagene Third Wave Patent Infringement Settlement
In 2004, Third Wave filed a patent infringement lawsuit related to PCR technology. Stratagene was accused that its qPCR and RT-PCR reagents violated some of the more than 30 patents on Third Wave's Invader product line. Stratagene and Third Wave settled the patent infringement case in an out of court settlement in relation to the suit currently in the F... - Virginia State University Professor Wrongful Termination Settlement
Dr. Jean R. Cobbs, a tenured full professor of sociology and social work, who was fired by the Virginia State University (VSU) administration two years ago, received a settlement of $600,000. In a complaint filed with the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Cobbs alleged she was fired for personal and political reasons that had... - Adam Opel and McCann Erickson German Tom Waits Mimick Ad Settlement
San Francisco, CA: Tom Waits has settled his lawsuit against the carmaker Adam Opel AG and a German advertising agency over television commercials that he says mimicked his vocal style without his permission. The ads, made two years ago by McCann Erickson Germany for Opel, a division of General Motors, showed car owners putting their vehicles away to th... - Oklahoma Department of Human Services Disabled Drowning Wrongful Death Settlement
Oklahoma City, OK: On May 29, 2004, Tamera Ferry, resident at a center for the developmentally disabled, drowned after she was left unattended in a bathtub at the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center in Paul's Valley. Ferry, 45, who had cerebral palsy and was mildly retarded, wasn't supposed to be left alone. She had lived at the center since 1962. Ferry's... - Walsall Council Employee Disability Discrimination Settlement
Elizabeth McDonald was fired from Walsall Council through a fax in April 2005 while on sick leave after having a thyroid operation. She filed a complaint with an Employment Tribunal claiming disability discrimination and unfair dismissal. She presented a list containing £500,000 in losses based on an estimate of what she would lose in salaries, bonuses... - Allstate Insurance Co.
Reading, PA: When she was fired May 7, 2002, the Philadelphia office of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit on behalf of Joyce Johnson-Clayter, 50, of Reading, PA. When African American Johnson-Clayter was working as a customer service representative at Encompass Insurance, a division of Allstate, her lawsuit claimed that he... - Sun-Times Media Group Breach Fudiciary Duties Settlement
Chicago IL: The derivative action had been filed against Sun-Times Media Group by stakeholder Cardinal Value Equity Partners, accusing certain directors including Henry Kissinger, former Illinois Gov. James Thompson and other independent directors of the publishing company formerly known as Hollinger International of breaching their fiduciary duties. Th... - Quietflex Manufacturing Co. Employee Discrimination Settlement
Houston, TX: A lawsuit was filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Quietflex Manufacturing Co. in January 2000 when the Hispanic workers walked off the job at the Houston air-conditioning duct maker. An investigation revealed that dozens of Hispanic workers wer... - Oklahoma City, OK Wrongful Conviction Settlement
Oklahoma City, OK: Jeffrey Todd Pierce sued police chemist Joyce Gilchrist, former Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy, and the city in 2003 after results of a DNA test showed he did not rape a woman at an Oklahoma apartment complex in 1985. Gilchrist, who testified about DNA evidence at the trial, and Macy, whose office prosecuted him, both clai...