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- Homeless Arrest Forest Park awards man $50,000 after suffering from a broken wrist. (Nov-25-07)
- Lead Jewelry Pure Allure agrees to pay $10,000 CPSC fine. (Nov-25-07)
- Burst.com iPod Patent Apple Inc. agrees to pay $10 million patent infringement settlement. (Nov-25-07)
- Sunbathing SUV Accident Family awarded $2.75 million wrongful death settlement after mother was run over by a police SUV on the beach. (Nov-25-07)
- Satellite Property Tax Champion Teleport pays town of Oxford $903,000 settlement. (Nov-24-07)
- Separation Employment Agreement Mantis Mineral Corp. pays former company director $400,000 settlement. (Nov-24-07)
- Waste Oil Timken Aerospace pays $154,000 settlement for air pollution and emission violations. (Nov-24-07)
- Police Chief Termination Manitowoc pays former city employee $80,000 settlement after being fired. (Nov-24-07)
- Fertilizer Spill ConAgra agrees to $80,000 fine after liquid nitrogen was accidentally released. (Nov-23-07)
- Vendor Markdowns Saks Inc. agrees to pay two vendors a settlement for abusive markdown allowances. (Nov-23-07)
- Securities Fraud Qwest Communications International Inc. agrees to $19 million shareholder settlement. (Nov-23-07)
- Fire Protection System Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport pays United Fire $215,000 for faulty water tanks. (Nov-23-07)
- Affordable Housing Sale Carmel Partners pays $71 million for 12 acres of a housing complex. (Nov-22-07)
- Transit Technicians Scam Two Municipal Transportation Agency agree to pay $287,000 settlement for stealing money from fare boxes. (Nov-22-07)
- Inmate Safety McLennan County pay former employee $30,000 wrongful termination and retaliation settlement after reporting illegal and dangerous conditions. (Nov-22-07)
- City Employees New Orleans and Louisiana pay $3.4 million racial discrimination settlement. (Nov-22-07)
- Released Inmates Corrections Corporation of America pays $140,000 fine after mistakenly releasing ten inmates. (Nov-22-07)
- Overpriced Drugs GlaxoSmithKline pays $1.4 million settlement for over charging Medicaid for three of its drugs. (Nov-22-07)
- Employee Harassment Leo Gentry Wholesale Nursery pays former employee $65,000 gender harassment settlement. (Nov-22-07)
- Elementary School Construction McGraw's Custom Construction pays $3.1 million settlement for faulty building. (Nov-22-07)
- City Bus Accident Rochester City Lines pays family of killed inline skater $550,000 wrongful death settlement. (Nov-21-07)
- Landfill Leachate US Department of Energy and Washington Closure Hanford, LLC pay $285,000 superfund settlement. (Nov-21-07)
- Fire Insurance City of Warren to receive $1 million after US Fire Insurance prevented competitive contract bidding. (Nov-21-07)
- Police Officer Injury Norwich pays city employee $63,500 after suffering from a debilitating eye injury. (Nov-21-07)
- Vehicle Fees ASK Powersports pays $70,000 fine for charging customers freight, assembly, and dealer service fees. (Nov-21-07)
- Property Tax Delphi Corp. agrees to pay over $6 million to Howard County for unpaid property taxes. (Nov-21-07)
- Employee Harassment Grimmway Farms and Esparza Enterprises pay cleaning worker $175,000 gender harassment settlement. (Nov-21-07)
- Petroleum Storage US Oil Company, Inc. agrees to pay $450,000 settlement for emission violations. (Nov-20-07)
- Airport Runway Engineering company agrees to pay for construction delays and costs. (Nov-20-07)
- Light-Rail Pollution Sound Transit agrees to pay $120,000 fine for water pollution from a construction project. (Nov-20-07)
- Presidential Advertising Media Fund pays $580,000 FTC fine for illegal marketing during the 2004 campaign. (Nov-20-07)
- VoIP Patent Vonage ordered to pay Verizon $120 million in damages. (Nov-20-07)
- Critic Free Speech Massachusetts Department of Education pays MCAS critic $187,000 civil rights settlement. (Nov-20-07)
- Psychiatrist Malpractice Constance Reynolds ordered to pay $800,000 malpractice and fraud settlement. (Nov-20-07)
- Sergeant Termination Athens County pays former employee settlement after being fired for political reasons. (Nov-19-07)
- Apartment Mold Landlord Roosevelt Owyang agrees to pay 12 families $1.3 million settlement. (Nov-19-07)
- Clerk Discrimination University Place pays former city employee $40,000 racial bias settlement. (Nov-19-07)
- Racial Discrimination Frankfort-Elberta Area School District settles elementary school student racial bias case. (Nov-19-07)
- Ferry Mold City of Portland to pay settlement for terminal mold. (Nov-19-07)
- Utilities Whistleblower New Jersey Board of Public Utilities agrees to $485,000 fine for setting up a private bank account. (Nov-19-07)
- Alltel Acquisition Alltel Corp. pays $1.5 million charge regarding its acquisition of Midwest Wireless. (Nov-19-07)
- Mortgage Kickbacks First American Title Insurance Co. agrees to $5 million fine and to close 84 partnerships. (Nov-19-07)
- Jesuit Priest Abuse Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus agrees to $50 million settlement to Alaska Natives victims. (Nov-19-07)
- Cancer Discrimination Tucoemas Federal Credit Union pays former employee $3.1 million settlement. (Nov-18-07)
- Illegal Tree Cutting Newton city pays property owner $40,000 for cutting down trees. (Nov-18-07)
- Township Manager Former Hilltown Township's manager awarded $20,000 severance settlement. (Nov-18-07)
- Cancer Center Fraud Parker Hughes Cancer Center fined $150,000 for over billing Medicare. (Nov-18-07)
- Seattle Archdiocese $1.1 million settlement in Roman Catholic school principal student abuse case. (Nov-17-07)
- Lye Spill Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Norfolk Southern Corp. pay $7.35 million settlement for environmental damages. (Nov-17-07)
- Physiotherapy Fraud Stryker Corp. agrees to pay $16.6 million settlement for Medicaid fraud. (Nov-17-07)