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• Water Features Albert D. Seeno Construction Co. pays $2.9 million civil settlement in environmental lawsuit. (Jan-15-08)
• Employee Harassment City of Rosemead pays former employee $330,000 settlement after allegedly being harassed by a city councilman. (Jan-13-08)
• Ballot Measures County of Monterey agrees to $511,717 settlement. (Jan-10-08)
• Construction Traffic Century City Realty LLC and JMB Realty Corp. pay $7.25 million settlement for underestimated traffic to the development. (Jan-9-08)
• Police Manhandling Preschool teacher awarded $235,000 settlement after an officer broker her arm. (Jan-9-08)
• City Clerk Nevada City pays former city employee $275,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Jan-9-08)
• Garden Grove Apartment Owners of complex pay $270,844 settlement for housing discrimination. (Jan-8-08)
• Generator NOx eBay fined $79,200 for air quality permit violations. (Jan-8-08)
• Volunteer Firefighter St. John Volunteer Fire Department agrees to undisclosed settlement for wrongful termination. (Jan-7-08)
• Sidewalk Fall City of Lodi pays woman $130,000 personal injury settlement. (Jan-4-08)
• Firefighter Harassment City of Los Angeles ordered to pay former firefighter $1.17 million settlement for racial harassment. (Jan-2-08)
• Services and Repairs EZ Lube Inc. pays $5 million settlement for duping and charging customers for unneeded services. (Jan-2-08)
• 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)
• Advertised Price Walgreens pays $767,000 settlement for overcharging customers. (Dec-28-07)
• Workers' Compensation City awards fire inspector $145,000 injury settlement. (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)
• Security Breach University of California pays National Nuclear Security Administration $2.8 million settlement. (Dec-19-07)
• Back Wages Barstow Fire Protection District pays former fire chief $90,000 in back wages. (Dec-17-07)
• Police Shooting The family of Bernet Vaba has agreed to settle a wrongful death suit for $210,000 in a lawsuit that alleged police were too hasty and used excessive force against the woman. (Dec-15-07)
• Oil Spill Crab Fishermen will get $700,000 compensation for an oil spill from the Cosco Busan that affected the crab fishing in San Francisco, Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay. (Dec-13-07)
• Stolen Sand Hanson Building Materials agrees to pay $42.2 million for allegedly defrauding the state of California out of millions of dollars in royalty payments for sand mined in Suisun and San Francisco Bays. (Dec-12-07)
• Gender Discrimination Former university basketball coach awarded $19.1 million gender bias settlement. (Dec-9-07)
• Fired City Employees Saratoga agrees to pay two former employees a $130,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Dec-8-07)
• Development Rights Half Moon Bay may have to pay $36.8 million regarding a land dispute. (Dec-6-07)
• Meal Breaks Rady Children's Hospital agrees to pay current and former employees $2.7 million for unpaid meal breaks. (Dec-6-07)
• Priest Abuse Woman awarded $500,000 settlement after becoming impregnated by a priest and abused by six other clergy members. (Dec-5-07)
• Housing Discrimination Landlord Robert Krug pays $140,000 settlement for not allowing renters with kids to take occupancy at his apartment complex. (Dec-3-07)
• Traffic Construction Caltrans agrees to pay auto dealership $2 million for construction delays that led to decreased customers and sales. (Dec-3-07)
• Transit Accident Monterey-Salinas Transit pays woman $3 million personal injury settlement. (Dec-2-07)
• PG&E Property Tax Yuba County, CA et al. agree to decrease the overall property tax bill by $10 million over the next 10 years. (Dec-2-07)
• Water Park Dispute Monterey County pays owner of Water World Resorts $22 million settlement. (Dec-1-07)
• Inmate Suicides Sacramento pays families of three suicide victims $1 million settlement. (Nov-29-07)
• Diesel Truck Emissions Waste Management agrees to $1 million fine for air quality violations. (Nov-28-07)
• Student Molestation Big Oak Flat-Groveland Unified School District pays family $510,000 settlement after a second grade boy was abused by other students. (Nov-28-07)
• Injured Joggers City of Dana Point awards two severely injured joggers $49 million settlement after being hit by a car. (Nov-28-07)
• Pesticide Production Pioneer Chemical Company pays $15,500 EPA fine. (Nov-28-07)
• Transit Technicians Scam Two Municipal Transportation Agency agree to pay $287,000 settlement for stealing money from fare boxes. (Nov-22-07)
• Employee Harassment Grimmway Farms and Esparza Enterprises pay cleaning worker $175,000 gender harassment settlement. (Nov-21-07)
• Apartment Mold Landlord Roosevelt Owyang agrees to pay 12 families $1.3 million settlement. (Nov-19-07)
• Building Inspector Harassment Hayward Police Department agrees to pay former city employee $473,000 gender bias settlement. (Nov-15-07)
• High School Football Stockton Unified School District agrees to settlement for recruiting players. (Nov-15-07)
• Risk Management Plans Twenty-six Californian facilities pay $18,800 EPA fine for violating the Clean Air Act. (Nov-14-07)
• Groundwater Contamination San Bernardino pays $11 million EPA fine for landfill waste. (Nov-12-07)
• Toxic Brine Cargill Salt pays $228,000 fine for violating California state water pollution laws. (Nov-11-07)
• Gold Mine Alpheus Kaplan and Nehemiah Development Company pay $721,000 fine for arsenic clean up costs. (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)
• Asbestos Joint Compounds Man awarded $3.6 million after forty years of asbestos exposure lead to mesothelioma. (Nov-6-07)
• Legally Blind Red Bluff pays former City Councilman Larry Stevens $520,000 settlement for ADA violations. (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)

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