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Holmdel, NJ: (Apr-16-07) The US Securities and Exchange Commission brought charge against NJ based Vonage in connection with a securities fraud investigation dating back to 1993. The charges alleged that Vonage CEO Jeffrey Citron was one of four individuals and one company charged with participating in an extensive fraudulent scheme involving the NASDAQ... - New York, NY Pesticide Spraying Settlement
New York, NY: (Apr-16-07) The No Spray Coalition and other environmental groups have been embroiled in a host of lawsuits against the City of New York in Federal Court, in opposition to Mayor Rudy Giuliani's administration's massive and indiscriminate spraying of toxic pesticides, including Malathion. The coalition alleged that the pesticides sprayed were da... - Amvac Chemical Corp. Field Workers Sterility Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: (Apr-16-07) Thirteen Nicaraguan field workers filed suit against Amvac Chemical Corp., a Southern California chemical company, alleging that one of the pesticides the firm used caused them to become sterile. The suit also mentioned Dow Chemical Co. and Dole Fruit Co. as defendants. In a settlement reached, Amvac agreed to pay $300,000 to t... - Los Angeles, CA Firefighter Discrimination and Retaliation Settlement
Los Angeles, CA: (Apr-16-07) Lewis "Steve" Bressler filed suit against the Fire Department accusing it of retaliating against him after he sought to help a colleague, Brenda Lee, who had alleged racial, gender, and sexual orientation discrimination. He was one of three firefighters who worked together in 2001 at Station 96 in Chatsworth and sued the city i... - Aramark Corp. Shareholders Settlement
Philadelphia, PA: (Apr-14-07) The shareholder lawsuit that stemmed from the $8.3 billion buyout of Aramark Corp., a Philadelphia food concessionaire for colleges, hospitals, and stadiums, resulted in a settlement of $222 million. Bidders for the company, including chairman Joseph Neubauer, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Thomas H. Lee Partn... - Round Rock, TX and the Round Rock School District Student Protest Civil Rights Settlement
Round Rock, TX: (Apr-16-07) On March 30, 2006, a group of Stony Point High School students left class to march to Round Rock High School as part of a series of nationwide protests against immigration laws. Police issued 209 citations against the students, accusing them of violating the city's youth curfew or disrupting class, leading to the students' and t... - Qwest Communications Breach Fudiciary Commitments Settlement
Santa Fe, NM: (Apr-14-07) The New Mexico state Public Regulation Commission filed regulatory charges against Qwest Communications in 2001 accusing them of breaching their fiduciary commitment to their clients. Qwest had agreed to spend $788 million on the state's telecommunications system, but it came up about $220 million short. In a settlement reached, Q... - Education Finance Partners Student Loan College Pay Offs Settlement
New York, NY: (Apr-16-07) Threatened with protracted litigation, Education Finance Partners, a student loan company, decided to settle claims filed by New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo's office, accusing it of paying colleges to steer students to them for loans. In a settlement agreement reached, Education Finance Partners agreed to pay $2.5 million t... - NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Wrongful Deaths Settlement
Orlando, FL: (Apr-16-07) An out of court settlement was reached between NASA and the family members of the astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia in 2003. Investigations showed that Columbia was brought down in 2003 because a piece of insulating foam broke off the shuttle during liftoff and caused damage. Searing gases penetrated the shuttle upo... - Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson Wastewater Engineering Defects Settlement
Appomattox, VA: (Apr-11-07) The town of Appomattox filed a lawsuit against Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson (JMT), a Maryland-based engineering firm, accusing it of faulty engineering on one of the town's wastewater treatment plants. Appomattox filed a $2 million lawsuit in April 2005 after efforts to repair cracks and bows in the plant's storage basin, which... - SLM Corp. Student Loan Arrangements Settlement
New York, NY: (Apr-11-07) The New York attorney general's office began an investigation into the business practices and financial arrangements between a number of lenders and financial aid officials at schools. The probe found that loan companies offered payments and perks to college officials to gain a place on their preferred lender lists, these arrangem... - Fleetwood Capital Development Housing Disability Discrimination Settlement
Washington, DC: (Apr-11-07) The US Department of Justice filed charges against Fleetwood Capital Development LLC, a Springfield, IL, development company, accusing it of discrimination after it refused to sell property in a Springfield-area subdivision because the buyer intended to house six persons with disabilities there. Fleetwood Capital and its princ... - Arnold, MO Jail Suicide Hanging Settlement
Arnold, MO: (Apr-11-07) Kurt Hartzell hung himself in the Arnold jail June 30, 2005, leading his father and nine-year-old son to sue the city for wrongful death. The suit alleged the city was negligent in the care offered at the jail and that though Hartzell had been placed on suicide watch in a cell monitored by video cameras, jail employees failed to pre... - Tracy Unified School District Student Molestation Settlement
Tracy, CA: (Apr-11-07) In 2004, an unattended special-education student allegedly sexually molesting another student at Merrill F. West High. The incident stemmed a lawsuit against Tracy Unified School District claiming damages. An unnamed girl, who was 15-years-old at the time, stands to receive a $250,000 settlement with the school district. Representati... - Siemens Natural Gas Turbine Failure Settlement
Lakeland, FL: (Apr-11-07) Lakeland Electric filed a defective product suit against Siemens after two extended failures of its natural gas turbine generator, Unit 5. A broken bolt on the 356-megawatt, gas-fired Unit 5 generator put it out of commission in June and July of 2005 followed by Unit 5 being down for a month in May 2006 because a motor blade went... - Edward G. Mawhinney Loan Scheme Settlement
Boyertown, PA: (Apr-11-07) National Penn filed a civil lawsuit against Edward G. Mawhinney, a former loan officer with National Penn's private banking division in Philadelphia in January 2005, after they discovered that the Sewell, NJ, resident was stealing money from National Penn Bank through a fraudulent loan scheme. It was discovered that Mawhinney, hi... - Supreme Court Hands Down Ruling in California Overtime Lawsuit
Apr-18-07 Los Angeles, CA: The Los Angeles Times (April 17, 2007) reports that the California Supreme Court handed down a ruling that triples the amount of back pay that employees can seek if they were forced to work through their breaks . The decision affects many people who are considered managers or assistant managers but generally spend less than half their tim... - Interview with Permax lawyers Paul R. Dahlberg and Anthony J. Nemo
Apr-17-07 Rochester, MN Over 500,000 people have taken Permax and lawyers Paul R. Dahlberg and Anthony Nemo of Meshbesher & Spence estimate that tens of thousands of those people are likely affected with heart damage, particularly moderate to severe valve regurgitation, because of this drug. Dahlberg and Nemo are currently representing people injured after usin... - Hydranautics, Indian Harbor Insurance Desalination Plant Settlement
Clearwater, FL: (Apr-17-07) Tampa Bay Water filed a lawsuit against Hydranautics, the manufacturer of membranes that remove salt from sea water at the plant, two engineering companies and an insurance carrier over a troubled desalination plant. The suit stemmed from the plant that opened in 2003 but never functioned properly. Though the plant produced drin... - Arkansas, USA Department of Information Systems Billing Settlement
Little Rock, AR: (Apr-16-07) The US Department of Health and Human Services filed a lawsuit against state Department of Information Systems (DIS), alleging that the state owed $9.4 million for billing errors that occurred from fiscal year 1997 through fiscal year 2000. DIS provides information technology services like computers, Internet, data networking a...