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Baton Rouge, LA: (Jun-06-07) Carter Nash, the former residential manager of Shiloh Coordinating Ministries and a case aide at the Drop-In Center, filed a wage hour employment lawsuit against the Baton Rouge chapter of Volunteers of America, claiming that the Christian charity organization paid him 43 cents an hour. The suit, filed in 2004, alleged that fro... - Whatcom County, WA Teenage Killer Civil Settlement
Bellingham, WA: (Jun-05-07) Nora and Michael Busby, parents of eight-year-old Michael Busby Jr., who was murdered in 2002 by a 16-year-old who was under the supervision of the county's juvenile probation department, filed a lawsuit against the county. The suit claimed that the county was negligent in its treatment of Ryan Alexander, the killer, who was on... - Fish Springs Ranch LLC Water Importation Project Settlement
Carson City, NV: (Jun-05-07) The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe brought charges against Fish Springs Ranch LLC, a subsidiary of Vidler Water Company and PICO Holdings, Inc., objecting the Fish Spring's water importation project of up to 8,000 acre-feet of groundwater per year from the Fish Springs Ranch to the northern Reno area. The tribe claimed that it would... - Van Buren School District Teacher and Coach Wrongful Termination Settlement
Van Buren County, AR: (Jun-05-07) Van Buren School District (VBSD) junior high school teacher and coach Steve Jones filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the school district, after he was terminated for leaving a teacher's meeting early. Jones claimed that he was singled out and treated shabbily, owing to the personal vendetta of certain board membe... - First Indiana Bank NA Property Value Loan Discrimination Settlement
Indianapolis, IN: (Jun-05-07) The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against First Indiana Bank NA, claiming that the Indiana bank discriminated against minorities by refusing to make loans on row houses in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. NCRC alleged that First Indiana Bank refused to make lo... - Quail Ridge Country Club LLC Golf Course Water Withdrawal Settlement
Boston, MA: (Jun-05-07) Attorney General Martha Coakley and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) filed charges against Quail Ridge Country Club LLC, the corporate owner of a 160 acre golf course and country club located in Acton. The lawsuit alleged Quail Ridge violated the Massachusetts Water Management Act (MWMA) and a 2003... - TXU Corporation Automatic Contract Renewal Fine
Dallas, TX: (Jun-05-07) Federal regulators brought charges against the electric retail unit of TXU Corporation, alleging that the Dallas-based company broke the law by signing up several thousand business customers to one-year contracts, without their consent. Beginning in 2005, regulators said TXU sent notices saying the service would be renewed for 12 mo... - OxyContin Canada: Hillbilly Heroin in the Great White North
Jun-6-07 Toronto, ON: The arrest of actress Lindsay Lohan and the various reports of her addiction to OxyContin have thrust the prescription painkiller back into the news. It has been suggested that OxyContin is quickly becoming the most coveted drug on the street. And Canada's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) pulls no punches when it comes to OxyCon... - Thomas Richardson Greeting Card Business Advertising Fraud Settlement
Florence, AL: (Jun-04-07) The Federal Trade Commission filed charges against Thomas Richardson, the man behind Mid-South Distributors, alleging that he advertised his greeting card display rack business opportunities in classified ads in local newspapers, claiming falsely that purchasers could earn as much as $65,000 a year. The FTC filed the case as part... - Enchanted Parks, Inc. Water Park Chemical Storage Penalty
Washington, DC: (Jun-04-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) brought a lawsuit against Enchanted Parks, Inc., alleging that the company failed to properly report on chemicals stored and handled at the company's popular Enchanted Village water park. The suit claimed that investigations revealed that from 2001 to 2004 Enchanted Parks failed to fi... - Aldis Manufacturing Ltd. FIFRA Herbicide Violations Penalty
Wilsonville, OR: (Jun-04-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency filed an environmental pollution lawsuit against Aldis Manufacturing Ltd., located in Wilsonville, Oregon, claiming that the company violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). According to EPA, on February 5, 2007, Aldis submitted a Notice of Arrival of pesti... - Michael Snyder Red Robin Business Expenses Civil Penalty
Los Angeles, CA: (Jun-05-07) The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against former Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc. Chief Executive Michael Snyder, alleging that the he misrepresented personal travel costs as business expenses. The suit claimed that Snyder's misrepresentations caused the restaurant chain to fail to report material amounts of... - Solano County, CA Anheuser Busch Property Tax Settlement
Fairfield, CA: (Jun-04-07) Anheuser Busch, an international brewery, filed suit against Solano County, claiming that the county wrongly charged millions of dollars as taxes. The long-running tax dispute alleged that since 2000, Anheuser Busch has been overcharged taxes on its property in Fairfield to a tune of $2,889,910. While the county claimed the brewe... - Justin Scott and Omid Kamshad Putnam Investments Trading Fraud Settlement
Washington, DC: (Jun-04-07) The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against two former Putnam Investments portfolio managers, Justin Scott, 49, and Omid Kamshad, 44, alleging that they made inappropriate trades in Putnam mutual funds that they held in their own accounts. The Securities and Exchange Commission had first charged Scott and Kamsha... - Cleveland, OH Construction Workers Payment Settlement
Cleveland, OH: (Jun-04-07) In a bid to target contractors who do not pay union-scale prevailing wages required at many publicly financed construction projects, Ohio's Attorney General Marc Dann announced an enforcement program. The AG, a Democrat elected with strong union backing, focused his attention on issues important to organized labor. In the settlem... - San Geronimo Golf Course Golf Cart Personal Injury Settlement
San Anselmo, CA: (Jun-04-07) Penina Meisels, a jewelry designer and widely published photographer, filed a personal injury lawsuit against the San Geronimo Golf Course over a 2003 golf cart crash that left her debilitated and unable to work. The crash occurred on Aug. 22, 2003, when Meisels, playing a round with friends, was driving a 4-foot-wide golf ca... - Michael Polsky Divorce Settlement
Chicago, IL: (Jun-04-07) Maya Polsky, wife of energy magnate Michael Polsky for 31 years, received a divorce settlement in which a Cook County judge awarded her $176 million in cash and assets. The settlement amount represented half of the couple's estate. On June 3, 2007, the judge amended the figure to nearly $184 million because previously omitted ass... - Overtime after 12 Hours Spells Double Time
Jun-5-07 Oakland, CA Not long after Vince H. started working for a cement-mixing company, he was "asked" to sign a letter waiving lunch. "We get paid regular time for working through our first lunch and that's fine with me, but they should pay double time for second lunch—after 12 hours," he says. That's a lot of money owed to more than 500 cement truck drive... - Credit Suisse Enron Bankruptcy Settlement
Houston, TX: (Jun-01-07) Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., formerly known as Enron Corp., had filed lawsuits against Credit Suisse, UBS AG, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., and several other banking institutions over the bankruptcy of the former energy trading giant. Enron, once the nation's seventh-largest company, entered bankruptcy proceedings in December 2001 a... - Freightliner LLC Lemon Law Settlement
Black River Falls, WI: (Jun-04-07) Ken's Septic Cleaning of Holcombe filed suit against Oregon-based Freightliner LLC in March 2006 under the lemon law, after more than a dozen attempts to repair a 2005 freightliner, purchased for $80,000, failed to make it run properly. The suit claimed that the Freightliner truck continued to experience problems, even af...