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- Toxic Brine Cargill Salt pays $228,000 fine for violating California state water pollution laws. (Nov-11-07)
- Wetland Tract Land owner and property manager pay $100,000 penalty for environmental damages. (Nov-11-07)
- House Lien Town pays $50,000 settlement to homeowner who couldn't sell house do to alleged code violations. (Nov-11-07)
- Interactive Voice Application Express Scripts, Inc. pays Ronald A. Katz Technology Licensing patent infringement settlement. (Nov-11-07)
- Free Ringtones Azoogle pays $1 million settlement for internet marketing and advertising fraud. (Nov-10-07)
- Wal-Mart Scales Wal-Mart pays state of Wisconsin $90,000 fine for overcharging for weighed products. (Nov-10-07)
- Gender Harassment First National Bank pays $350,000 settlement after vice president was charged with gender harassment toward female customers. (Nov-9-07)
- Superblock Land Owner Lexington Square Partners LLC pays $2.7 million to the city of Baltimore for property reconstruction. (Nov-9-07)
- Twin Delivery Advocate Christ Hospital awards estate of brain damaged girl $6.25 million medical malpractice settlement. (Nov-9-07)
- Visa Antitrust Visa, MasterCard Inc. pays American Express Co. $2 billion credit card antitrust settlement. (Nov-9-07)
- Gold Mine Alpheus Kaplan and Nehemiah Development Company pay $721,000 fine for arsenic clean up costs. (Nov-8-07)
- Nurse Pregnancy Discrimination Kaiser Foundation Health Plan pays employee $180,000 bias settlement. (Nov-8-07)
- FedEx Drivers FedEx Corp. pays $253,000 settlement to five employees for unfair labor practices. (Nov-8-07)
- Medi-Cal Fraud Stars Behavioral Health Group pays $1 million settlement after wrongfully charging for treatments it did not perform. (Nov-8-07)
- Concrete Price Fixing Shelby Gravel sets aside $4.7 million fund for customers. (Nov-8-07)
- Online Real Estate HouseValues Inc. pays fine for misrepresenting the quality of its real estate leads to subscribers. (Nov-8-07)
- Capsized Boat TS Hong Kong agrees to pay $1.4 million EPA settlement after releasing 3,100 tonnes of benzene, 85 tonnes of fuel, and 16 tonnes of diesel into the ocean. (Nov-7-07)
- Landslide Mitigation Lexington Insurance agrees to pay Nevada County $2 million insurance settlement. (Nov-7-07)
- Game Vendor Intoxicated Giants fan crashes pickup truck into family and leaves 2-year-old paralyzed. (Nov-7-07)
- Patrol Car Crash Washington State Patrol pays women left with traumatic brain injuries $4 million settlement. (Nov-7-07)
- Freddie Mac Accounting Scandal Freddie Mac former CEO Leland Brendsel agrees to pay $16.4 million settlement. (Nov-7-07)
- Legacy Litigation Progressive Gaming International Corp. agrees to pay $20 million settlement after ten years. (Nov-7-07)
- Assistant Superintendent Marshall Independent School District pays former employee $100,000 age discrimination settlement. (Nov-6-07)
- Construction Storm Water R.S. Audley, Inc. pays $60,000 EPA fine for violating the Clean Water Act. (Nov-6-07)
- Banana Pesticide Six Dole workers awarded $3.3 million after becoming sterile while working at a banana plantation in Nicaragua. (Nov-6-07)
- CEO Severance Federal Trust Bank pays former CEO James Suskiewich $2.6 million settlement. (Nov-6-07)
- Asbestos Joint Compounds Man awarded $3.6 million after forty years of asbestos exposure lead to mesothelioma. (Nov-6-07)
- Medicare Reimbursement Arizona Heart Hospital pays $5.8 million settlement for violating the False Claims Act regarding medical procedures. (Nov-6-07)
- Mine Shaft Accident Families of miners and rescue workers awarded wrongful death settlement after the Crandall Canyon mine shaft imploded. (Nov-5-07)
- Fill Material Six companies agree to $100,000 EPA fine for discharging dredged materials into Chesapeake waters. (Nov-5-07)
- Legally Blind Red Bluff pays former City Councilman Larry Stevens $520,000 settlement for ADA violations. (Nov-5-07)
- Opacity Emissions Steel Dynamics Inc. pays EPA $263,000 fine for violating opacity limits of the Clean Air Act. (Nov-5-07)
- Off-Island Waste Nantucket pays Waste Options $760,000 settlement in contract dispute for shipping construction and demolition waste. (Nov-5-07)
- Trump Property Assessment Atlantic City pays Trump Entertainment Resorts $34 million settlement for overassessing property values at three casinos. (Nov-5-07)
- Sports Agent Three football players become ineligible to play after accepting bribes from agent. (Nov-5-07)
- Elderly Motorist Dental surgeon's family awarded $12.5 million wrongful death settlement after being hit by a car while bicycling. (Nov-5-07)
- Mercantile Taxes Wilkins Township pays ProCare Pharmacy Direct $950,000 settlement for excessive tax charges. (Nov-4-07)
- Claims Investigator Overtime City of Palo Alto pays former employee $335,000 settlement for unpaid overtime. (Nov-4-07)
- Public Records Washington State Department of Corrections pays employees $65,000 settlement for failing to provide public records regarding part time employee health insurance. (Nov-4-07)
- Copied Art Marylee Leialoha Colucci and Island Treasures Art Gallery pay photographer Kim Taylor Reece $60,000 after creating a stained glass copy of a photo. (Nov-4-07)
- Fibrinogen Hepatitis Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. pays $18.17 million settlement after infecting thousands of people with Hepatitis C. (Nov-3-07)
- Painter Electrocution Campbell Quality Painting, LLC and the Heritage Preservation Trust of Newtown, Inc. pay $300,000 wrongful death settlement. (Nov-3-07)
- Jail Suicide Teenager's family awarded wrongful death settlement. (Nov-3-07)
- Court Parking Nassau County pays $50,000 settlement for a parking dispute. (Nov-3-07)
- Arena ADA Madison Square Garden pays fine for ADA violations. (Nov-2-07)
- Allegany Ballistics Laboratory Hercules, Inc. pays $12.95 million settlement for facility environmental damages. (Nov-2-07)
- Workers Compensation Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant pays waitress $900,000 settlement after workplace injury. (Nov-2-07)
- School Bus Drivers' Overtime Palm Beach County School pays drivers and attendants $1.3 million employee overtime settlement. (Nov-1-07)
- Funeral Privacy Family awarded $11 million settlement after church protesters set up a demonstration at a Marine's funeral. (Nov-1-07)
- School Bus Fire Travelers Insurance Company pays Grand Coulee Dam School District settlement for damaged buses. (Nov-1-07)