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In June, 2005 Braxton Wooden was under the care of foster parents Mark and Treva Gordon when he was shot dead by the Gordons' son Ethan while playing a game of cops and robbers in their home. The Jasper County foster parents were not home at the time and fourteen-year-old Ethan didn't think the gun was loaded. Ethan was charged with involuntary manslaug... - Stan Rebert and York County civil Settlement
Becky Downing filed a lawsuit against York County District Attorney Stan Rebert and York County in 2005, claiming that Rebert abused his power, misused funds and fired her for speaking out against his alleged misdeeds. Rebert accused the former chief county detective of having "sour grapes" after she was fired for poor job performance. York County Commi... - Hoffman LaRoche, BASF AG, Rhone-Poulenc; Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Eisai Co., and Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd. Settlement
Vitamin makers pleaded guilty in 1998 to an international price-fixing scheme. A lawsuit alleged that the companies charged a hidden vitamin tax on everyday products such as fortified cereals, milk, juices, and pet and other animal food, as well as beauty products. The suit against the six vitamin makers resulted in a $310 million settlement. The world'... - Lawsuits - Only Weapon Available Against Giant Big Pharma Pushers
Jul-11-06 Over the past several years, new studies have shown the new generation of psychiatric drugs to be not only extremely dangerous but also ineffective, and the majority of these medications in fact now carry black box warnings about a number of life-threatening side effects associated with their use. The drugs include selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor... - Deloitte & Touche trust funds Settlement
A lawsuit filed against Deloitte & Touche alleging accounting fraud involving Symbol Technologies Inc. has reached an understanding. A settlement agreement of $24 million is proposed with the $1 billion Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension & Relief Fund, $550 million Louisiana Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System and City of Miami General Employees' and... - State of Indiana antitrust Settlement
The State of Indiana was accused by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of engaging in noncompetitive bidding practices, inflating prices to Indiana schools and libraries, falsifying invoices and disregarding the requirement that the schools and libraries make co-payments for E-Rate services. The E-Rate program, which helps poor schools connect to the Inter... - C.C. Myers Inc. construction accident death Settlement
While building the Maxwell Bridge on Napa River in 2003, a construction accident resulted in the death of bridge worker Richard "Chris" Stevens and injured seven others. A lawsuit charged C.C. Myers Inc of violating one labor code law and breaking a regulation involving falsework shoring standards. The suit alleged that the Rancho-Cordova based constru... - AT&T Communications-East fraud Settlement
Between 1998 and 2001, AT&T Communications-East allegedly passed on to government customers fees that long-distance telephone companies pay to local carriers for providing facilities that link customers to the network. The U.S. Department of Justice claimed that passing on the fees violated the terms of AT&T's contract with the government. A lawsuit was... - Raytheon Company Securities Settlement
From 1997 to 2001, the Raytheon Company was investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (S.E.C) for improper accounting practices at its aircraft unit. Raytheon, based in Waltham, Mass., manufactures Hawker and Beechcraft business jets. The company agreed on a $12 million settlement with the S.E.C. and recorded an expense of $12 million in th... - Tenet Healthcare global fraud Settlement
Tenet Healthcare Corp. allegedly defrauded Medicare, including manipulating the Medicare outlier system, up-coding Diagnosis Related Groupings (DRGs) and paying kickbacks to physicians. The Dallas based healthcare company, which owns 68 hospitals, has agreed to pay more than $700 million under a global settlement with the Justice Department. Tenet will... - Kmart Corporation pension Settlement
The former Kmart Corporation was sued in March 2002 claiming that former company executives allegedly acted improperly when employees and retirees invested their pension money in now-worthless Kmart stock. Approximately 125-thousand employees and retirees of Kmart will share in an $11.75 million settlement. The Troy-based Kmart emerged from bankruptcy i... - Harold G. Nagel personal injury Settlement
Ernest W. Foster was involved in a car crash in 2004 with Harold G. Nagel near Streator, Illinois that badly injured his leg and killed Nagel. Foster was nearing an intersection when Nagel did not stop for a stop sign and collided with Foster, who had polio and wore a leg brace, which pinned him inside the wreckage. Foster agreed to a $450,000 settlemen... - Cascade County, Montana environmental land purchase Settlement
Montana Specialty Mills, a processor and marketer of oilseed and other grain-based products, found a plume of petroleum and other solvents under its property and filed a lawsuit against Cascade County in 1998. The suit alleged that contaminants leaked from the Cascade County Shop adjacent to the mill property. In the settlement, Cascade County will pay... - Hughes Aircraft, the City of Tucson, and the Tucson airport contamination Settlement
More than 25 years ago, the largely Hispanic South Side community in Tucson started getting sick and they were told it was because of their ethnicity, not because of an industrial solvent contaminating their water. Scientists later determined that trichloroethylene, or TCE, contamination was linked to health problems in Southside and more than 1600 resi... - Occidental Chemical Corp. environmental Settlement
In 1993 New York State filed a lawsuit alleging Occidental Chemical Corporation discharged chemicals from it Niagara Falls manufacturing plant, polluting Lake Ontario and its tributaries. The spill damaged important fisheries and waterways and impacted the area environmentally, recreationally and economically. The chemical company has agreed to pay $12... - City of Carterville, Mo. wrongful death Settlement
Jessie C. Hembree was shot to death by a Carterville police officer Aug. 30, 2003 outside a convenience store after he allegedly stole cigarettes and beer from the store. Sgt. Sara Gerber tried to arrest Hembree and when he resisted and tried to attack, Gerber shot him. Hembree's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Jasper County Circuit Court, alle... - Add Triaminic Vapor Patch To List Of Dangerous Patches
Jun-25-06 On June 19, 2006, Novartis Consumer Health issued a recall for the cough-suppressing Triaminic Vapor Patches in the US, about three weeks after Health Canada issued a warning after a Canadian child who chewed on a patch suffered a seizure. There have been eight adverse events with the patch, all involving ingestion, Navartis spokesperson, Julie Masow, tol... - DYNO Nobel Inc. and other Mining Companies Settlement
A criminal antitrust probe into the explosives industry finally wrapped the last remaining monies from a $60 million settlement against two of the largest manufacturers of explosives that began in 1992. One of the companies, Salt Lake City-based DYNO Nobel, paid a fine of $15 million. Manufacturers and distributors of commercial explosives allegedly con... - Delmon Young baseball Settlement
In April 2006, Umpire Rick Cacciatore was hit with a baseball bat thrown by minor-leaguer Delmon Young in at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I., during a game between the Durham Bulls and Pawtucket Red Sox. According to Cacciatore, he called Young out on strikes in the top of the first inning with nobody out and runners on first and second. Cacciatore tr... - Bell Canada pay equity Settlement
Current and former telephone operators of Bell Canada, most of them women, have voted 95 percent in favor of a $104 million settlement to end a 14 year-old dispute -- covering the years 1993 to 1999 -- with The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and Bell Canada over pay equity for 4,765 telephone operators. CEP filed its claim for p...