New Mexico Settlements

• $7.8 Billion Settlement Approved In BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Class Action Lawsuit (Dec-24-12)
• New Car Class Action Settlements with Toyota and CADA (Jan-10-11)
• $173M Settlement Reached in Chip Antitrust Suit (Jun-29-10)
• Vitamin Price Fixing Suit Preliminary $25 Million Settlement Reached (Dec-14-09)
• Air Quality Violations Energy company to pay mare than $60 million settlement in pollution lawsuit. (Apr-23-08)
• Rape Goes Uninvestigated Jury reaches $200,000 verdict in police misconduct lawsuit. (Mar-25-08)
• Temporary Employment Farmington to pay $427,000 settlement to underpaid workers. (Mar-17-08)
• Environmental Cleanup Settlement reached in wastewater treatment lawsuit. (Mar-15-08)
• Religious Discrimination NMSU to pay $165,000 in Muslim discrimination settlement. (Mar-7-08)
• Cowboy Hat Lincoln County pays citizen $10,500 settlement for Constitutional Rights violations. (Mar-1-08)
• Assistant Harassment Public Regulation Commission member David King agrees to $840,000 settlement to former employee. (Feb-13-08)
• Transuranic Waste Department of Energy pays $110,000 penalty for improper shipment screening. (Feb-8-08)
• Chemical Anti-Icing Family awarded $550,000 wrongful death settlement after woman died in car crash. (Jan-6-08)
• Child Dies in Hot Tub Sonoma Springs Partners have agreed to pay $1.9 to settle the wrongful death lawsuit that claims 4-year-old Auston Elmore died in a hot tub they had no permit to operate. (Dec-11-07)
• Fertilizer Plant Helena Chemical Co. pays $230,000 for air quality and emissions violations. (Nov-15-07)
• Police Bribe City of Las Cruces pays settlement after former police officer requests a kiss to tear up a traffic ticket. (Oct-10-07)
• Doña Ana County, NM $22,000 settlement in wrongful termination and retaliation lawsuit. (Sep-24-07)
• Viola Trevino $1.2 million in DNA fraud lawsuit. (Sep-18-07)
• University of Phoenix $225,000 settlement in sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. (Aug-30-07)
• Santa Fe, NM $106,500 settlement in illegal detaining lawsuit. (Aug-2-07)
• Bernalillo County, NM Over $150,000 paid out in change of employment lawsuit. (Jun-29-07)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory $251,870 penalty paid in hexavalent chromium contamination lawsuit. (Jun-20-07)
• Safety-Kleen Systems $10,000 penalty for improper hazardous waste management practices. (May-28-07)
• Qwest Communications $270 million to be spent on customer credit and improvements. (Apr-19-07)
• New Mexico Highlands University $205,000 settlement awarded to a former professor for discrimination. (Mar-9-07)
• New Mexico, USA News agencies receive $125,000 for violation of the Inspection of Public Records Act. (Feb-16-07)
• Clovis, NM $448,500 settlement after a boy drowned in a city pool. (Feb-14-07)
• Albuquerque Public School District $350,000 settlement after a tennis coach seduced a student. (Nov-3-06)
• City of Espanola, NM $221,000 settlement awarded to the family of a third grade boy who was handcuffed and taken to jail by police for misbehaving at school. (Apr-18-06)
• Pfizer Inc. $4 million settlement over misleading statements (May-2-05)