LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
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Rights Settlements, Verdicts and Rulings
- Elderly Man Tasered by Deputies Reaches $65K Settlement (Jun-20-11)
- $4.3 Million Settlement Tentatively Approved in First Group Class Action (Mar-18-11)
- $7 Million Settlement Reached in Illegal Strip Search Class Action (Feb-25-11)
- $1.1M Settlement in Franklin County Jail Strip Search Suit (Feb-4-11)
- Strip Search Class Action Settled for $3 Million (Jan-13-11)
- $5.5 Million Settlement Reached in Bexar Jail Strip Search Suit (Dec-8-10)
- Cook County Settles Strip Search Class Action for $55.3 Million (Nov-16-10)
- Metro Gang Strike Force to Pay Victims $3 million (Aug-25-10)
- Strip-Search Lawsuit Settled for $1.1 Million (Jul-16-10)
- Chicago Considers $16.5 Million Settlement in Class Action Against Police Force (May-10-10)
- Illegal Strip Search Suit Settled for $33 Million (Mar-23-10)
- $4.1 Million Settlement Awarded in False Imprisonment Lawsuit (Feb-16-10)
- Strip Search Class Action Settled for $900,000 (Dec-14-09)
- Washington to Pay $13.7 Million to Demonstrators (Nov-24-09)
- Dell Reaches Settlement in Discrimination Class Action (Jul-27-09)
- Restaurant Staff Win Lawsuit Suit Against Employer for Infiltrating their MySpace Forum (Jun-18-09)
- Illegal Strip Search Lawsuit Reaches $2.1 Million Settlement (May-13-09)
- Disabled Win California Class Action (Apr-28-09)
- County Jail Strip Search Class Action Preliminary Settlement Reached (Mar-18-09)
- LA Settles LAPD Brutality Class Action (Feb-5-09)
- Washington State Reaches Settlement in Child Care Workers Class Action (Aug-22-08)
- City of Fresno Will Pay $2.3 Million in Homeless Persons' Class Action Settlement> (Jul-28-08)
- Michigan State Settles Class Action Over Child Welfare (Jul-7-08)
- Owasso, OK $300,000 settlement reached in civil rights violations lawsuit. (Jun-20-08)
- Street Painter Ordinance City pays artist $250,000 settlement in First Amendment lawsuit. (Apr-24-08)
- Video Taping Arrest Harris County pays wrongfully arrested brothers $1.7 million civil rights settlement. (Mar-4-08)
- Rally Rights Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement. (Jan-31-08)
- Paralympic Civil Rights US Olympic Committee agrees to confidential settlement for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Jan-9-08)
- Abortion Rights Legislator Vaughn Flora agrees to confidential settlement after physically harming protester. (Jan-6-08)
- Women's Studies Rights Rhode Island College pays fine for removing signage. (Sep-26-07)
- False Arrest Hillsborough woman wins $100,000 settlement for civil rights violations. (Sep-20-07)
- Portland, OR $25,000 payout in state trooper-Iraq war protest, harassment lawsuit. (Jul-11-07)
- Dallas County, TX $950,000 settlement for inhuman treatment at county jail. (Feb-26-07)
- Trans Bay Steel Corp. $1.4 million human trafficking settlement. (Dec-10-06)
- Academy School District 20 $150,000 settlement paid to a teacher for violating her civil rights. (Oct-2-06)
- City of Seattle, WA $75,000 settlement for two protesters whose free speech rights were violated. (Sep-21-06)
- State of New Mexico $15 million civil rights settlement awarded to three mentally disabled women. (Jul-17-06)
- City of Fayetteville, North Carolina and Golden Corral restaurant chain $100,000 settlement awarded to seven black men in a civil rights and slander lawsuit. (Jun-26-06)
- Washington State A $2.5 million settlement for violating mental paitent civil rights. (Mar-18-05)