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Detroit, MI: (Apr-16-07) The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) brought charges against Collins & Aikman Corp., a Southfield, MI based auto parts maker, over a potential claim totaling $192 million in connection with funding obligations for its pension plan. Collins & Aikman said it stopped making minimum funding contributions to the plan in July 2006 r... - Portland Archdiocese Priest Abuse Settlement
Portland, OR: (Apr-14-07) Over 175 people filed suit against the Portland Archdiocese, alleging that they were sexually abused by priests. The archdiocese sought bankruptcy protection in 2004 after a series of lawsuits were filed against it. Though most experts viewed the move as risky, it served to secure the archdiocese' financial future, collecting $52... - Countrywide Home Loans Inc. Excessvice Fees Settlement
Hartford, CT: (Apr-11-07) The state Department Of Banking filed a lawsuit against Countrywide Home Loans Inc., one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders, accusing it of charging Connecticut consumers excessive fees when they were approved for home loans. Countrywide was accused of charging fees - points, application charges and other administrative co... - Paul Hashman Shooting Neighbor Settlement
Elyira, OH: (Apr-11-07) Darrell Oskins filed a lawsuit against 85-year-old Paul Hashman, after Hashman shot at him six times. Oskins claimed that winning a settlement against Hashman was less important to him and his family than to Hashman admitting he was culpable in the shooting. Hashman claimed that he acted in self-defense when Oskins came at him with... - Norcal Waste Systems Trash Hauling Settlement
Oakland, CA: (Apr-11-07) The city of San Jose had filed charges against Norcal Waste Systems accusing it of not meeting the state-mandated trash diversion requirements of mixing glass with trash, rather than recycling the material. Norcal did not refute the claims. In a settlement reached with the city, Norcal ended litigation in the controversial trash-ha... - Newport News Water Reservoir Rights Settlement
Newport News, VA: (Apr-11-07) The Mattaponi Indian Tribe and Newport News reached a settlement in a nearly 10-year-old lawsuit about the city's controversial proposed King William Reservoir. Though Newport News Waterworks has worked for more than a decade on making the reservoir a reality, environmental groups opposed the project, arguing that it was overs... - Email Discount Network Unauthorized Charges Phone Bill Restitution
Atlanta, GA: (Apr-11-07) The Florida Attorney General's Office began an investigation into the business practices of the Florida-based Internet company Email Discount Network (EDN), and found that EDN placed unauthorized charges on the phone bills of over 258,000 US consumers, including 11,200 individuals in the state of Georgia. The investigation reveal... - Emeryville, CA Employee Racial Harassment Settlement
Emeryville, CA: (Apr-10-07) Concerned Citizens for Change, an Emeryville-based group, requested city council members look into matters pertaining to racial discrimination and retaliation against city employees. One of the Concerned Citizens for Change making the charges was former Emeryville City Planning Technician Leslie Pollard, who received a $3.6 mill... - Tropicana Casino & Resort Parking Garage Collapse Wrongful Death Settlement
Atlantic City, NJ: (Apr-11-07) The families of four men who died in a construction accident, when the parking garage at the Tropicana Casino & Resort collapsed on October 30, 2003 and 36 other workers stand to receive a $101 million settlement in the wrongful death and personal injury lawsuit. The suit alleged that the resort wanted to compete with the Bor... - Red Bluff, CA Employee Gender Discrimination Settlement
Red Bluff, CA: (Apr-10-07) Kelly Meek, a former police officer, sued the city after she lost her job in 2004, alleging that the police department discriminated against her. Meek was fired from Red Bluff after five years in the Police Department at various jobs. The suit claimed that Meek was denied a locker room facility apart from male personnel, and eve... - San Francisco, CA Sexual Orientation Discrimination Settlement
San Francisco, CA: (Apr-10-07) Andrew Marconi filed suit against the San Francisco Police Department and the city claiming that he was humiliated and intimidated by on-duty police officers at a club across the street from the city's Hall of Justice. The suit stemmed from an incident in 2004 in which Marconi and some friends were outside The Endup, a popula... - Synergetics USA, Inc. Laser Disposables Patent Infringement Settlement
O'Fallon, MO: (Apr-10-07) Iridex Corporation filed a patent litigation suit against Synergetics USA, Inc. and entered into a Settlement Agreement and a Manufacture and Supply Agreement to resolve all claims from the pending lawsuits. The agreement involves the dismissal of all pending legal actions between the two companies as well as a cross licensing of... - Joslyn Sunbank Company Hazardous Wastes Settlement
Sacramento, CA: (Apr-11-07) The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) filed suit against the Joslyn Sunbank Company of Paso Robles, a military and aerospace conduits and thermoplastics manufacturer, alleging that it violated the state's Hazardous Waste Control Law during its manufacturing process. The suit accused Joslyn Sunbank of ro... - Red Robin Restaurant Employee Religious Discrimination Settlement
Belleview, WA: (Apr-07-07) Human and Civil rights cases that stem from abuse of the First Amendment are seeing a steady increase as more religious practices run counter to laws and policies. The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against Red Robin Restaurant on behalf of server Ameni Rangel, who practices the ancient Egyptian Kemeti... - J&J Concealed Dangers of Ortho Evra Birth Control Patch
Apr-16-07 Washington, DC: Tens of millions of prescriptions have been written for Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Evra birth control patch since it arrived on the market in 2002, and medical experts say the patch has harmed thousands of young women of childbearing age. In September 2006, the FDA warned that use of the patch, made by the Ortho-McNeil division of J&J,... - Columbus, OH Wrongful Robbery Conviction Settlement
Columbus, OH: (Apr-10-07) In a settlement reached with Dartangnan Hill, a onetime leader of the Deuce-Deuce Bloods gang, a legislative panel awarded him $192,000 for spending almost four years in state prison for a home-invasion robbery for which he was later exonerated. Hill was convicted of a May 2001 home-invasion robbery largely on eyewitness accounts... - Valero St. Charles Refinery Fine Particle Pollution Settlement
Picayune, LA: (Apr-10-07) The US Environmental Protection Agency brought charges against Valero St. Charles Refinery accusing it of air pollution violations in 2005 following a finding by Clean Air Task Force, an environmental research group in Boston. Valero was accused of fine-particle pollution, including diesel exhaust, which can cause lung cancer, s... - Inova Fairfax Hospital Sign Language Interpretor Provision Settlement
Washington, DC: (Apr-10-07) The Department of Justice brought charges against Inova Fairfax Hospital, a hospital serving the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC accusing it of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The hospital was accused of not appropriately responding to requests to provide a qualified sign language interpreter for the deaf moth... - Chicago, IL Wrongful Convictions Settlement
Chicago, IL: (Apr-10-07) The city of Chicago reached a settlement with two of the four men who were wrongfully convicted in the 1986 rape and murder of medical student Lori Roscetti. Larry Ollins and Omar Saunders, who were falsely arrested and convicted in 1988 to life in prison, were later exonerated following DNA evidence. Three of the four who were arr... - Royal Dutch Shell Investors Reserves Settlement
London, UK: (Apr-10-07) Royal Dutch Shell announced the settlement of all claims against them outside the US pertaining to the 2004 restatement of reserves. Though Shell i.e. The Shell Transport and Trading Company, Ltd. and Shell Petroleum N.V. did not admit to any wrongdoing on its part, they have agreed to pay $352.6 million, plus administrative costs,...