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Settlements - Discrimination
- Miles City Mayor Butch Grenz $20,000 in gender discrimination lawsuit. (Jan-25-07)
- Bernardo Heights Country Club Undisclosed settlement regarding marital status discrimination. (Jan-25-07)
- Compass Bank $1.75 million settlement for loan discrimination. (Jan-17-07)
- Crestwood School District $150,000 age discrimination settlement awarded to a substitute teacher. (Dec-29-06)
- Montana Corrections Department $48,500 verbal abuse and gender discrimination settlement. (Nov-27-06)
- Overnite Transportation $232,000 settlement for applicant and employee racial discrimination. (Nov-3-06)
- Delaware State Police $80,000 gender discrimination settlement awarded to a female trooper. (Aug-29-06)
- Stillwater School District $1.1 million settlement awarded to former employees for age discrimination. (Aug-24-06)
- Alcoa City, TN $92,000 racial discrimination settlement awarded to two African American police officers. (Aug-9-06)
- Fox News Network $225,000 tentative gender discrimination and harassment settlement awarded to four women in Fox News advertising and promotion department. (Aug-2-06)
- Calaveras County, California $95,000 discrimination lawsuit dropped by Kenneth Cantamout. (Jul-25-06)
- U.S. Department of Justice $170,000 discrimination settlement awarded to Mary Jude Darrow. (Jul-25-06)
- Home Depot Inc. $125,000 racial harassment and retaliation settlement awarded to former worker. (Jul-18-06)
- University of Missouri $125,000 racial discrimination settlement awarded to Louis Ray Leuellyn. (Jul-17-06)
- Sears, Roebuck and Co. $150,000 disability discrimination settlement awarded to Judith Keane. (Jul-17-06)
- City of Hollywood, Florida $2 million zoning settlement awarded to the Chabbad Lubavitch Synagogue. (Jun-27-06)
- Poole and Kent $800,000 awarded to the City of Baltimore to settle violation of public work discrimination. (Jun-26-06)
- Bell Canada $104 million labor settlement reached for almost 5,000 Bell Canada current and former employees. (Jun-20-06)
- Camden County, NJ $350,000 settlement for employment discrimination awarded to Camden County Sheriff's officer Michael Barr (Jun-12-06)
- Verizon Communications Inc. $49 million settlement for pregnancy discrimination. (Jun-5-06)
- City of Clarksville, TN $225,000 racial discrimination settlement awarded to a police officer. (May-23-06)
- State of Massachusetts $1.2 million settlement for retirement system age discrimination. (May-22-06)
- Berkeley Iceland Settlement awarded after allegations of gay discrimination. (May-16-06)
- Highland Hospital $200,000 settlement for discriminating against Hispanic housekeepers. (May-10-06)
- Town of Mount Olive Settlement reached in gender harassment workplace case. (May-8-06)
- Home Depot Inc. $125,000 gender discrimination settlement awarded to a female former employee. (May-2-06)
- University of the Cumberlands Student expelled for being gay reaches settlement with his university. (May-1-06)
- Berlin Intermediate School $250,000 gender harassment settlement awarded to five female teachers. (Apr-28-06)
- San Francisco International Airport Zimbabwe woman gets settlement for immigration official misconduct. (Apr-24-06)
- Delaware County Female deputy receives $150, 000 in a wrongful dismissal gender discrimination settlement. (Apr-23-06)
- Qwest Communications $400,000 settlement awarded to Hispanic employees alleging racial discrimination. (Apr-13-06)
- U.S. Mint $9 million settlement awarded to female employees for gender harassment. (Apr-4-06)
- Commercial Coating Services $1 million racial abuse settlement awarded to an African American former employee. (Mar-23-06)
- Passaic County Judge Randolph Subryan $300,000 settlement awarded to a female judicial clerk alleging gender harassment. (Mar-7-06)
- Newman University $182,500 gender discrimination settlement awarded to a female former employee. (Mar-1-06)
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police $950,000 settlement awarded to a female RCMP constable who was harassed and fired after taking maternity leave. (Jan-30-06)
- Exel Inc. $145,000 racial discrimination settlement awarded to a former employee. (Jan-4-06)
- Carl Karcher Enterprises $255,000 settlement awarded to former African American employees for racial discrimination. (Jan-3-06)
- Austrian Airlines $500,000 age discrimination settlement awarded to the former director of sales. (Jan-2-06)
- Tonganoxie School District $440,000 settlement awarded to a teenaged student after classmates harassed and bullied him out of school. (Jan-1-06)
- Iron City Constructors and the Boldt Company $275,000 settlement for allowing a racially hostile work environment awarded to two African American former employees. (Dec-20-05)
- PrivatAir Inc. $53.8 million settlement awarded to a pilot for wrongful termination based on age. (Dec-13-05)
- Paul Hall Center and Seafarers International $625,000 age bias settlement for refusing to admit those over the age of 40 into an apprenticeship program. (Dec-8-05)
- Maytag Corp. $334,500 settlement in back pay awarded to former managers who were allegedly demoted based on age. (Dec-8-05)
- The Boldt Co. $175,000 class action settlement awarded to African American employees alleging racial discrimination and hostile work environment. (Dec-1-05)
- Merrill Lynch & Co. $2 million gender discrimination settlement awarded to a female employee who is now retired. (Nov-28-05)
- Liebherr-America $4 million racial discrimination settlement awarded to African American employees. (Nov-22-05)
- Cambridge Company $250,000 settlement awarded to a paraplegic engineer who was wrongfully fired. (Nov-9-05)
- Polk County School Board $300,000 settlement awarded to the former assistant principal for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Nov-8-05)
- City of El Paso $500,000 employee age discrimination awarded to a former city attorney. (Nov-8-05)