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Hudson, OH: (Jan-17-08) Two students, Calais Weber and Cecelia Chen, brought lawsuits against Hudson's Western Reserve Academy, after they were seriously burned in a chemistry lab fire two years ago. Records show that Calais, now 17, was the most seriously injured in the fire at the private school. Burns covered 46 percent of her body. Calais was taken to... - Companies ordered to pay $1.6 million contamination cleanup settlement
New York, NY: (Jan-18-08) New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's offices brought charges against a group of public entities and companies, including Xerox Corp., Eastman Kodak Co. and E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., alleging that they were liable to pay for the cleanup of a hazardous waste site in Monroe County. The AG's office stated the hazardous waste t... - Payday Lending, Check n' Go agrees to $100,000 settlement after violating state laws
Richmond, VA: (Jan-17-08) The State Corporation Commission brought charges against Check n' Go, the nation's second largest payday lender, alleging that the company violated numerous state laws regulating the industry. The State Corporation Commission stated that it cannot disclose which laws Check n' Go violated because such reports are kept confidential... - LandAmerica Financial Corp. Group Inc. agrees to $3.5 million settlement in unfair insurance practices lawsuit.
San Jose, CA: (Jan-16-08) The Department of Insurance and Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner brought lawsuits against several LandAmerica companies, alleging unfair practices in rating and underwriting, including failure to follow their own rates, resulting in premium overcharges for many consumers purchasing residential title insurance policies. The c... - Tentative $600,000 settlement in wrongful imprisonment lawsuit
Piketon, OH: (Jan-17-08) Kenneth Moore, a man who admitted to shooting and killing a man was freed from prison after winning an appeal, brought a lawsuit against the State of Ohio, alleging that he didn't receive proper counsel. Records stated that Darrel Benner was fatally shot 13 years ago inside a Piketon home. Moore, who admitted to pulling the trigg... - Coal Waste, Massey Energy pays $20 million in civil penalties and invests $10 million in pollution control improvements
Washington, DC: (Jan-18-08) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against Richmond-based Massey Energy, alleging that the company polluted hundreds of waterways in West Virginia and Kentucky with coal waste. EPA officials state that some of the discharges were more than ten times the amounts allowed by state permits, and that the com... - Clergy Abuse, Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph awards teenage boy $45,000 settlement
Kansas City, MO: (Jan-16-08) An unidentified Kansas City-area man brought a lawsuit against the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, alleging that Thomas Reardon and Thomas O'Brien sexually abused a non-catholic 16-year-old boy. Sources stated that over a dozen men have sued O'Brien and the diocese, and 14 have sued Reardon and the church. One has settled, a... - Business Transaction, Hillsborough Resources Limited pays $78,000 settlement
Vancouver, Canada: (Jan-17-08) Several plaintiffs brought a lawsuit against Hillsborough Resources Limited, seeking $21 million, alleging that a failed business transaction resulted in significant losses to the plaintiffs. Sources close to the case stated that the parties had agreed to resolve the lawsuit by entering into a settlement agreement. Under the... - Othello Community Hospital pay $80,000 wrongful termination settlement
Othello, WA: (Jan-15-08) Sue Hobler-Inks, a former hospital employee, brought a lawsuit against Othello Community Hospital and its administrator Harry Geller, alleging that she was wrongfully terminated from her job. Hobler-Inks claimed in her suit that she was fired in retaliation for her audits of hospital administration and participation in hospital dis... - William Borchard and William Raben pay $65,000 settlement for insider trading
San Francisco, CA: (Jan-15-08) The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought charges against William Borchard and William Raben, two former PricewaterhouseCoopers employees in San Francisco, alleging that they engaged in insider trading. The suit stated that former senior associate Borchard allegedly told his friend and coworker Raben, on six dif... - Mars Hill Graduate School of Seattle awards former employee $300,000 discrimination and harassment settlement
Seattle, WA: (Jan-15-08) Heather Parkinson-Webb, a female faculty member, brought a lawsuit against Mars Hill Graduate School of Seattle, alleging that she faced harassment and discrimination at work. The suit claimed that Parkinson-Webb, who was also one of the seven founders of the Christian-based school, faced harassment when her contract was not renewe... - Thames Shipyard and Repair Co. pays $787,000 environmental settlement for hazardous waste violations
New London, CT: (Jan-15-08) State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Gina McCarthy's office brought charges against Thames Shipyard and Repair Co., alleging that the company violated environmental laws at its 100-year-old facilities on the Thames River. The suit stated that the violations include... - University Dean, Florida Gulf Coast University agrees to undisclosed age and gender discrimination settlement
Miami, FL: (Jan-15-08) Johnny McGaha, 64, former chairman and dean of professional studies at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), brought charges against the college, alleging that he was demoted because of age and gender discriminatory practices that were rife at the university. McGaha was allegedly reassigned in 2005 to a criminal justice professorship... - Employee Discrimination, Supreme Corp. and Supreme Northwest LLC ordered to pay $427,000 racial bias and harassment settlement
Portland, OR: (Jan-15-08) The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought charges against Supreme Corp. and Supreme Northwest LLC, alleging that the company discriminated against its employees. The EEOC lawsuit claimed that the Indiana-based automotive manufacturer harassed and subjected seven employees at its Woodburn facility to disparate t... - Refinery Pollution, Sinclair Oil Corp. pays $2.45 million environmental settlement
Washington, DC: (Jan-15-08) The Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought an environmental damage lawsuit against Sinclair Oil Corp., alleging that the company had violations of air pollution controls at the company's three refineries. The violations were detected at Sinclair's facilities in Casper and Sinclair, WY, and in Tulsa,... - Jack-in-the Box pays undisclosed racial discrimination settlement to two customers
Edwardsville, IL: (Jan-15-08) Norieko Johnson of Edwardsville and Vanessa Hill of Alton, two black women, brought a lawsuit against Jack-in-the Box, a restaurant, alleging that a worker screamed racial insults at them during a visit there four years ago. The suit stated that the incident occurred around 6:30 pm on Feb. 25, 2004, at the restaurant on Troy R... - Mamaroneck pays Westchester Day School $4.75 million settlement after denying permission to erect a new building on its campus
Mamaroneck, NY: (Jan-15-08) The Westchester Day School brought charges against the village of Mamaroneck, after being denied permission to erect a new building on its campus. The suit, brought by the 60-year-old Orthodox Jewish School, stated that the village denied its application to add a fifth building to its 25-acre campus. Sources close to the case st... - Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc. agreed to pay $12.1 million settlement for forcing merchants to accept both credit and debit cards
Charleston, WV: (Jan-15-08) The State Attorney General Darrell McGraw's office brought charges against Visa USA Inc. and MasterCard International Inc., alleging the two credit card companies engaged in illegal conduct. The suits were filed in October 2003 in Ohio County, charging the companies with violations of the state's antitrust and consumer protectio... - Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers ordered to pay $6.2 million settlement to former employees for racial discrimination
New York, NY: (Jan-15-08) The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought a lawsuit against Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers, a union that critics have called one of the city's most notorious for racial discrimination, alleging that the union discriminated against black and Hispanic sheet metal workers. Sources stated that the complaints agai... - City of Lumberton pays $90,000 EPA settlement for incorrectly disposing polychlorinated biphenyls
Fayetteville, NC: (Jan-14-08) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought charges against the city of Lumberton, Carolina Transformers group, a company that operated from 1958 to 1986, alleging that it and other entities that contracted with it, incorrectly disposed off polychlorinated biphenyls, coolants used to insulate fluids for transformers a...