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- Unauthorized Searches GunnAllen Financial pays $50,000 fine to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. (Oct-26-07)
- Optometrist Harassment National Vision Inc. pays $175,000 after doctor harassed four female patients. (Oct-25-07)
- Storm Water Pollution Dutton-Lainson Co. pays $50,000 for environmental damages. (Oct-25-07)
- Immigration Officer Department of Homeland Security pays excessive force settlement. (Oct-25-07)
- Hydroelectric Dam Land Avista Corp. pays state of Montana $4 million per year for renting land. (Oct-25-07)
- Processor Copyright Intel Corp. pays Transmeta $250 million for copyright infringement. (Oct-25-07)
- Propane Antitrust BP Plc pays $303 million settlement for manipulating the cost of propane. (Oct-25-07)
- Accounting IRS Payment McGill, Power, Bell & Associates pays Lawrence Park Golf Club settlement for accounting errors. (Oct-25-07)
- Middle School Principal Jackson Public Schools pays former principal $350,000 settlement for wrongful termination and retaliation. (Oct-25-07)
- Niagara Falls Parking Lot Urban Renewal Agency and Empire State Development pay $1.65 million eminent domain settlement. (Oct-25-07)
- Apartment Closure Injunction Juanita Apartments pay city of Burien $200,000 fine for health and safety code violations. (Oct-24-07)
- Logging Forest Fire Babbitt Logging Inc. and Stimson Lumber Co. pays state of Idaho $1.5 million for wildfire damage. (Oct-24-07)
- Storm Sewer Death City of Omaha pays family $207,500 wrongful death settlement after Chad Sieger was swept away by storm waters. (Oct-24-07)
- ATM Contract Hanco ATM awarded £1.8 million from Cashbox. (Oct-24-07)
- Screenplay Dispute Spyglass Entertainment Group and Hollywood Pictures Corp. pay Jerry Lewis undisclosed settlement for a remake of "The Errand Boy" that was never made. (Oct-24-07)
- Water Contamination Quaker Chemical Corp. pays Orange County Water District $2 million for environmental damages. (Oct-24-07)
- Unlimited Internet Verizon Wireless pays $150,000 fine and $1 million in reimbursements for deceptive marketing. (Oct-24-07)
- Police Impersonation Kensington Police Department awards institutional police sergeant $47,000 settlement. (Oct-23-07)
- Cash Commissions MedicalCV pays J Giordano Securities Group a $750,000 cash settlement over an agreement dispute. (Oct-23-07)
- Housing Gender Harassment Landlords pay $240,000 fine for harassing female tenants. (Oct-23-07)
- Foster Care Concealed Abuse Florida Department of Children & Families pays family $10 million for failing to provide adequate information on the background of their three adopted boys. (Oct-23-07)
- Portfolio Patent Microsoft Corp. pays Timeline Inc. $5 million for patent infringement. (Oct-23-07)
- Shareholder Buyout Leucadia National Corp. pays investors $13.7 million settlement. (Oct-23-07)
- Clam Farmers Evergreen and Norfolk Dredging Co. pay $1.8 million settlement for an oil spill that destroyed crop. (Oct-22-07)
- Football Coach Former University of Louisiana head football coach awarded $2 million settlement for racial discrimination. (Oct-22-07)
- Apartment Management Archstone-Smith pays $683,000 settlement for improper tenant water billing. (Oct-22-07)
- Officer Retaliation Nassau County must pay $150,000 settlement to corrections officer for retaliation from a previous lawsuit. (Oct-22-07)
- Police Whistleblower Officer awarded $980,000 for whistleblower violations and retaliation. (Oct-22-07)
- Restaurant Fall Steam Plant Restaurant must pay man who broke his arm over $1 million personal injury settlement. (Oct-22-07)
- Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey player Mario Lemiueux set to receive $21 million bankruptcy settlement. (Oct-22-07)
- Business Ethics Host America Corp. agrees to pay $2.45 million class action settlement for acting in an unlawful manner. (Oct-22-07)
- Ainsworth Antitrust Canadian company pays $8.6 million class action settlement for violating US antitrust laws. (Oct-22-07)
- Salon Discrimination SmartStyle Family Hair Salon pays employee $20,000 for religious discrimination. (Oct-21-07)
- School Athletic Fields Gilbane Building Co. and Amsco Inc. pay $750,000 settlement to repair land at Nashua High School North. (Oct-21-07)
- Wastewater Overflow City of Holyoke pays $500,000 settlement for property damage. (Oct-21-07)
- Sandblasting Pollution Fairweather Marine pays $77,500 fine. (Oct-21-07)
- Dow Jones Shareholders Company pays shareholders $895,000 to cover legal cost regarding News Corp.'s takeover bid. (Oct-20-07)
- Inland Port Taxes CaroLinks pays state and federal government over $500,000 in back taxes. (Oct-20-07)
- Teenaged Football Player South Florida Youth Football League and Washington Park Buccaneers pay family undisclosed wrongful death settlement. (Oct-20-07)
- Elementary School Construction Harris Brothers Construction and Pacific West Construction pay Jefferson County School District $900,000 for substandard buildings. (Oct-20-07)
- City and Mayor Whistleblower Two officers awarded part of $8 million whistleblower settlement. (Oct-19-07)
- Paving Rights Pinal County pays Gila River Indian Community $259,200 settlement for the right of way to pave a road. (Oct-19-07)
- Quarry Sinkholes Hanson Aggregates Southeast Inc. and Oldcastle Materials Inc. to pay city of Opelika $1.1 million settlement. (Oct-19-07)
- Soccer Coach Discrimination Female coach wins $50,000 gender bias settlement. (Oct-19-07)
- Reverse Discrimination Two white firefighters awarded $132,500 settlement for racial bias. (Oct-19-07)
- Clean Up Delays Landowner James Pflueger pays $135,000 EPA fine for delayed construction. (Oct-18-07)
- Rear Ended Greenwich pays woman injured after police cruiser accident. (Oct-18-07)
- Knee Surgery Death Football player's family receives $1.7 million settlement after the 22-year-old died during post-op care. (Oct-18-07)
- Hispanic Bias B&H Photo and Electronics Corp. pays employees $4.3 million discrimination settlement. (Oct-18-07)
- Resignation Severance Duval County pays former superintendent $275,000 settlement. (Oct-18-07)