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- Employee Gender Discrimination SunWest Federal Credit Union agrees to pay $250,000 gender bias settlement to two female employees. (Jan-2-08)
- Car Dealer Discrimination Burton of Seaford agrees to pay $70,000 employee age discrimination settlement. (Jan-2-08)
- Firefighter Harassment City of Los Angeles ordered to pay former firefighter $1.17 million settlement for racial harassment. (Jan-2-08)
- Patent Dispute Motorola, Inc. and Metrologic Instruments, Inc. enter into confidential settlement regarding barcode scanning and mobile computing. (Jan-2-08)
- ATV Air Pollution Pep Boys pay $154,000 fine for violating environmental air quality laws. (Jan-2-08)
- Get Rich Scheme J.W. McLain and family ordered to pay $26.5 million investment consumer fraud settlement. (Jan-2-08)
- Agreement Breach AMS Homecare Inc. agreed to pay $6.2 million settlement to HG. Soliman Enterprises Ltd. (Jan-2-08)
- Services and Repairs EZ Lube Inc. pays $5 million settlement for duping and charging customers for unneeded services. (Jan-2-08)
- Employee Age Discrimination Hannabery Electric agrees to pay $156,000 age bias settlement. (Jan-1-08)
- Public Reputation Meijer Inc. pays town treasurer $3 million settlement for defamation during a state election. (Jan-1-08)
- Coach Defamation City of San Marino agrees to pay high school basketball coach $2.1 million settlement for false arrest and misleading statements. (Dec-31-07)
- Employee Life Insurance City of Ankeny pays estate of former employee $10,000 settlement. (Dec-31-07)
- Roof Repairs Eeman & Blinn, Inc. agrees to pay $290,000 settlement for installing a faulty high school roof. (Dec-30-07)
- Professor Harassment Ohio University pays former student $225,000 gender harassment settlement. (Dec-30-07)
- Defective Roof Four companies pay a $1.5 million settlement for faulty installation at the Kane County Judicial Center. (Dec-29-07)
- Insider Trading Blair MacDougall pays $12,5000 fine for illegal insider trading of shares. (Dec-29-07)
- Advertised Price Walgreens pays $767,000 settlement for overcharging customers. (Dec-28-07)
- Pressure Cooker Home Shopping Network pays $875,000 civil settlement for failing to warn customers about the dangerous product. (Dec-28-07)
- Money Mismanagement American Dental Partners agrees to pay dentists $130 million settlement. (Dec-28-07)
- Securities Settlement McAfee, Inc. agrees to derivative securities settlement. (Dec-27-07)
- Pristine Land Developer George Johnson to pay $12 million settlement for building on state trust lands without permits. (Dec-27-07)
- Medicare Fraud Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta Inc. and Saint Joseph's Health System Inc. pay $26 million settlement for false inpatient billing. (Dec-27-07)
- Hedge Fund Fraud MF Global agrees to pay $2 million civil penalty for unsupervised offshore accounts. (Dec-27-07)
- Pigeon Poop Jury awards doorman $6 million settlement after falling down a flight of subway stairs. (Dec-27-07)
- Bus Brakes Rodriguez Transportes ordered to pay $2.8 million wrongful death settlement. (Dec-27-07)
- Restaurant Lease Contract City of Prescott must pay Sand Trap golf course restaurant $225,000 breach of contract settlement. (Dec-27-07)
- Workers' Compensation City awards fire inspector $145,000 injury settlement. (Dec-27-07)
- False Allegations City of Wenatchee agrees to pay former pastor $700,000 settlement after falsely arresting him in association with child molestation. (Dec-27-07)
- Information Disposal American United Mortgage Company pays $50,000 FTC fine. (Dec-27-07)
- Police Chase Family accepts $950,000 wrongful death settlement after man died from being pinned under a police car. (Dec-26-07)
- Co-Op Reserve Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association ordered to pay $100 million settlement to tobacco growers in four states. (Dec-26-07)
- Inflated Drug Prices Dey LP pays $198,000 settlement to Montana Attorney General. (Dec-26-07)
- Golf Pro Mt. Lebanon pays former employee $25,000 age discrimination settlement. (Dec-25-07)
- Computer Horizons Corp. Company sale related lawsuit ends with a $175,000 payout. (Dec-25-07)
- Telemarketing Timeshare Equity Marketing Corp. pays $95,000 settlement for deceptive advertising. (Dec-25-07)
- Perma-Fix of Dayton Inc. $360,000 civil penalty in Clean Air Act violations suit. (Dec-24-07)
- Kerosene Leak Rivermead, Inc., et al. pays $50,000 fine for mobile home park environmental clean up. (Dec-24-07)
- Indian Health Care US Federal Government agrees to pay Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. a $48 million settlement to improve services. (Dec-24-07)
- Lord of the Rings New Line Cinema reportedly paid Peter Jackson a $40 million settlement for accounting fraud. (Dec-24-07)
- Property Funding University Heights Association pays $6 million settlement regarding a land dispute. (Dec-23-07)
- Internet Gambling Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo pay $31.5 million settlement for advertising and promoting illegal gambling sites online. (Dec-23-07)
- Manufacturing Protocol Sioux Manufacturing Corp. pays $1.9 million settlement for failing to meet Kevlar specifications. (Dec-23-07)
- Accounting Fraud US Foodservice former CEO pays $8 million settlement to Royal Ahold. (Dec-23-07)
- Inflated Circulation Tribune Co. pays $15 million settlement for marketing fraud. (Dec-23-07)
- Superfund Cleanup W.R. Grace & Co. agrees to pay $34 million settlement towards cleanup costs. (Dec-22-07)
- Market Timing Morgan Stanley pays $17 million SEC fine after financial advisers engaged in deceptive trading practices. (Dec-22-07)
- Wastewater Violations Cyril-Scott agrees to pay $80,000 EPA fine for plant violations. (Dec-22-07)
- Marketing Fraud Thermal Advantage Inc. must pay $50,000 fine for deceptive advertising. (Dec-21-07)
- Human Resources Director City of Tempe pays former employee $337,000 wrongful termination and retaliation settlement. (Dec-21-07)
- Ammonia Spill Cabot Creamery pays $100,000 fine for environmental violations. (Dec-21-07)