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Sort by relevance 102 pages found matching taco bell- Lake Pointe Medical Center and Rockwall County, TX Inmate Opiate Withdrawal Wrongful Death Settlement
Dallas, TX: (Aug-10-07) Sharon Mann, the mother of 43-year-old William Ty Shugart, brought a wrongful death lawsuit against Rockwall County and Lake Pointe Medical Center, alleging that her son died as a result of their indifference and negligence. The lawsuit alleged that jail officials acted with indifference toward Shugart and that adequate guidelines w... - Avandia Defended by Glaxo Despite Heart Attack Risk
Aug-2-07 Rockville, MD As part of the July 30th proceedings of a federal drug advisory committee that ultimately voted to keep Avandia on the market despite cardiovascular risk, Avandia maker GlaxoSmithKline defended its product as completely safe. Dr. Murray Stewart, A Vice President with the company, presented the findings of an examination of data from more... - Kappa Alpha Psi Hazing Wrongful Death Settlement
Cape Girardeau, MO: (Jul-11-07) Michael Davis died in February of 1994 after being beaten to death while pledging for Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity at Southeast Missouri State University. After being brutally beaten, his fraternity members stopped to get food at a Taco Bell directly across the street from a hospital, then drove the unconscious boy home and pu... - Summit Builders, Colorado Structures, and Shelly Construction LLC Dust and Air Quality FInes
Phoenix, AZ: (Jul-03-07) The Maricopa County Air Quality Department filed environmental damage lawsuits against several companies in Phoenix, alleging that they had air quality violations at their premises. The companies targeted included Summit Builders of Phoenix, Colorado Structures, Shelly Construction LLC, and several other construction companies as w... - Management Resources Co. Taco Bell Manager Gender Discrimination Settlement
McMinnville, TN: (May-28-07) Katrina Hillis and Diana Pepper, former employees of a large Taco Bell franchisee, filed a discrimination lawsuit against Management Resources Co., which is based in the Nashville suburb of Brentwood and owns more than 80 Taco Bell franchises in the South. Hillis and Pepper, the store managers, claimed that Management Resources... - Verizon Communications Inc. Antitrust Class Action Dismissed
Washington, DC: (May-23-07) Class action plaintiffs William Twombly and Lawrence Marcus filed an antitrust lawsuit against Bell Atlantic Corp., which merged with GTE Corp. in 2000 to form Verizon Communications Inc. and several other large telephone companies. Twombly and Marcus represented a class that consisted of virtually everyone who uses landline tel... - Microsoft Corp. MP3 Patent Infringement Settlement
Seattle, WA: (Feb-23-07) Microsoft Corp. was charged by telecommunications equipment maker, Alcatel-Lucent SA, claiming that the software giant had violated two patents related to digital music. Lucent Technologies Inc., which was acquired by Alcatel in 2006, filed 15 patent claims against Gateway Inc. and Dell Inc. for technology developed by Bell Labs... - Ortho Evra Caused Stroke
Jan-17-07 Atlanta, GA Julia Wilson started wearing the Ortho Evra patch in 2005 but only after she asked her doctor a lot of questions regarding its safety and side effects. He didn't know of any except nausea. Now, Julia hopes he will warn women considering the Ortho Evra patch of the serious side effects, especially one that ruined her life - a stroke. "W... - Fayette County Board of Education and Edgar Friedrichs Student Wrongful Death Settlement
In November 1997, elementary school principal, Edgar Friedrichs took 12-year-old Jeremy Bell for an overnight stay at a remote Thurmond cabin. Friedrichs forced Jeremy to ingest amitriptyline and chloroform so he could sexually assault his defenseless body. Jeremy died of toxic poisoning from the chemicals. His family filed a wrongful death lawsuit agai... - Paxil, Pregnancy and Birth Defects
Nov-9-06 Newfoundland, PA "My psychiatrist prescribed Paxil when I was three months pregnant," says Jaime Curtis. "I feel like it is my fault that I did this to my kid; it just breaks my heart when he can't breathe." Jaime was never told about Paxil's link to birth defects. "I had a normal pregancy, just like my other two, and Geoni was born just five days... - City of Chicago, IL Coerced Confession Settlement
Chicago - In July 2000, Corethian Bell, who suffers from a mental illness, found his murdered mother in her apartment and called police to report the crime. Bell was charged with murder and gave a videotaped confession. He spent 17 months in Cook County Jail before the Cook County State's Attorney's office dropped the charge after DNA evidence proved Be... - Harman-Chiu Inc. Female Employees Gender Discrimination Settlement
Sunnyvale - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against the Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco Bell franchise owner on behalf of Latina immigrant workers for gender discrimination. The lawsuit claimed the manager at the Sunnyvale KFC/Taco Bell repeatedly approached three female employees with unwelcome sexual propositions that created a... - Bayer Cropscience Faces More Lawsuits
Sep-13-06 Little Rock, AR Bayer has been handed yet another lawsuit since the August 18th 2006, announcement by the U.S. Agriculture Department that LLRICE 601 , engineered by Bayer , had been found in long grain rice storage bins in Arkansas and Missouri. LLRICE601 has not been approved for human consumption. LLRICE 601 (also referred to as "Liberty R... - 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... - Verizon Communications Inc. Employee Pregnancy Discrimination Settlement
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against the telephone company on behalf of 12,300 current and former employees in 13 states for allegedly discriminating against pregnant women. The lawsuit claimed Verizon predecessor companies failed to count time spent on parental leaves toward pensions. Verizon has agreed to pay a $49... - Hyundai Tiburon: Buyer Beware
May-11-06 "Basically the Hyundai warranty is void as soon as you drive the car off the lot. When the clutch on my Hyundai Tiburon GT went, they told me it was because of bad driving habits. I am really pissed off. They just deny everything." Bill Parfiit Jr., Pasedena, Maryland "I have a 2004 Hyundai Tiburon GT with a 2.7 liter engine but it's the same problem... - City of Chicago Police Eye Shooting Settlement
June 14, 1998 the city of Chicago was celebrating the victory of the Bulls basketball championship. Fifteen year old Francis Bell was riding in a car that suddenly made a U-turn. The car sped onto a sidewalk corner where 11 police officers were standing guard in case of any celebratory mayhem. The car struck one officer in the leg and three other officers... - More lawsuits in store for Viagra
Dec-29-05 Robert Dreyfuss discovered that his loss of vision may be linked to Viagra after reading an article in the Chicago Tribune last summer, 2005. "When I read it, a bell went off in my head," he says. Dreyfuss, 51 years old, had unwittingly been taking the drug for two years. He took it one evening and woke up the next morning blurry-eyed. Chalking it up to... - Somerset County Social Services Fatal Abuse Settlement
In October 2002, Carole Anne Quillen and her boyfriend, Christopher Allen, fatally abused Quillen's two year old girl, Whitney Williams. Allen was sentenced to 25 years in prison for child abuse resulting in death and Quillen was sentenced to a five year prison term for manslaughter. The father, Clark Bell, reported that his daughter was being abused at... - Settlements and Verdicts: Clackamas County, Oregon.
A $1.5 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by fired deputy Carl Bell alleging racial discrimination. The suit charged that Bell was fired after complaining about racist comments made by his trainers and colleagues about him and others. (Oct-22-03) [ OREGONIAN ] Legal Help If you have a similar problem and would like to be co...