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- Disability Discrimination Town of Center pays undisclosed settlement to secretary. (Jan-9-08)
- Police Manhandling Preschool teacher awarded $235,000 settlement after an officer broker her arm. (Jan-9-08)
- City Clerk Nevada City pays former city employee $275,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Jan-9-08)
- City Taxes Butte-Silver Bow County, MT agrees to pay IRS $228,760 in back taxes. (Jan-9-08)
- Boat Crash Police officer awarded $100,000 settlement after crashing into bridge piling while on duty. (Jan-9-08)
- Garden Grove Apartment Owners of complex pay $270,844 settlement for housing discrimination. (Jan-8-08)
- Generator NOx eBay fined $79,200 for air quality permit violations. (Jan-8-08)
- Fake iPods Shay Zvi Lahav fined $20,000 for marketing and selling fake Apple iPods. (Jan-8-08)
- Undisclosed Charges PeoplePC fined $20,000 for deceptive marketing practices. (Jan-8-08)
- Acacia Patent Verizon Wireless agrees to undisclosed patent infringement settlement. (Jan-8-08)
- Home Vibrations Allstate Insurance Co. agrees to pay $950,000 insurance settlement an airplane's vibrations cause foundation damage. (Jan-8-08)
- Medical Negligence Jury orders obstetrician Paul Hergott to pay $8.6 million settlement after mother gives birth to disabled twins. (Jan-8-08)
- Burning Dress City of Stamford and park contractor pay $500,000 personal injury settlement after a 5-year-old girl's dress caught on fire from a spotlight. (Jan-8-08)
- Mining Pit Bankruptcy judge orders Asarco to pay $8.6 million contaminated water settlement. (Jan-8-08)
- Celebrity Contract Steven Seagal pays $500,000 settlement in breach of contract lawsuit. (Jan-8-08)
- Subdivision Guards Two security guards receive undisclosed out-of-court settlement after being attacked and discriminated against by several teenage boys. (Jan-7-08)
- Plane Crash Estate of Rick Potter pays $1 million wrongful death settlement to widow. (Jan-7-08)
- Campaign Contributions $260,000 settlement reached in election fraud lawsuit. (Jan-7-08)
- Sprayground Chlorine Cedardale Inc. pays $20,000 fine for wastewater violations at children's park. (Jan-7-08)
- Drowned Teenager Joyce Meyer Ministries agrees to pay undisclosed settlement to family of a teenager who died at a church outing. (Jan-7-08)
- Volunteer Firefighter St. John Volunteer Fire Department agrees to undisclosed settlement for wrongful termination. (Jan-7-08)
- College Lab New Jersey Institute of Technology pays $150,000 settlement in hazardous waste violations lawsuit. (Jan-7-08)
- Stock Options Nabors Industries Ltd. pays $2.85 million for misdated stock option grants. (Jan-7-08)
- Principal Moved Peters Township School District pays former high school principal $130,000 settlement for discrimination and wrongful termination. (Jan-7-08)
- Paper Mill Pollution Katahdin Paper pays $106,000 environmental fine for wastewater discharges that triggered a massive algae bloom. (Jan-7-08)
- Defective Furnaces Carrier Corporation agrees to compensate consumers for high efficiency gas furnaces in class action settlement. (Jan-7-08)
- Chemical Anti-Icing Family awarded $550,000 wrongful death settlement after woman died in car crash. (Jan-6-08)
- CEO Severance Airbee Wireless Inc. ordered to pay former employees $700,000 severance settlement. (Jan-6-08)
- Inmate Abuse State of Wyoming awards inmate an undisclosed settlement after being assaulted by his cell mate. (Jan-6-08)
- Abortion Rights Legislator Vaughn Flora agrees to confidential settlement after physically harming protester. (Jan-6-08)
- Railroad Safety CSX Corp. pays $349,265 civil penalty in federal safety regulations violation lawsuit. (Jan-5-08)
- Wastewater Bacteria City of Ashton pays $10,000 settlement for violating the federal Clean Water Act. (Jan-5-08)
- Vehicle Maps Acacia Research Corp. pays Sprint Nextel Corp. confidential settlement for patent infringement. (Jan-5-08)
- Sidewalk Fall City of Lodi pays woman $130,000 personal injury settlement. (Jan-4-08)
- Auto Dealer Advertising Eight Massachusetts auto dealerships pay $290,000 fine for misleading marketing. (Jan-4-08)
- Heating Oil Spill Quaker Farms Elementary School pays $13,000 DEP fine after leaking tank was found. (Jan-4-08)
- Flash Memory PNY Technologies pays SanDisk Corporation undisclosed patent infringement settlement. (Jan-4-08)
- Jesuit Abuse Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus awards 16 abuse victims a $5 million clergy abuse settlement. (Jan-4-08)
- Tax Discrepancies Northwest Airlines pays IRS $12.6 million settlement for taxes and interest. (Jan-4-08)
- Securities Settlement LCC International, Inc. securities lawsuit ends in cash penalty and stock conversion. (Jan-4-08)
- School Security Eastern Michigan University pays $2.5 million wrongful death settlement after a female student was killed on campus. (Jan-3-08)
- E-Mail Records City of Kingman pays $40,000 unfair bill. (Jan-3-08)
- City Employees Sweet Springs pays two former workers a $25,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Jan-3-08)
- Police Van Family awarded $500,000 settlement after father died while in police custody. (Jan-3-08)
- Construction Claims Koss Construction Co. pays $600,000 fine for submitting false claims under a federal program for disadvantaged businesses. (Jan-3-08)
- Farm Truck Accident Brian and Robert Bramlet ordered to pay $10 million settlement after killing a 15-year-old boy. (Jan-3-08)
- Tunnel Fares A&M Limousine Service agrees to pay $65,000 settlement for failure to pay commercial turnpike tolls in Boston. (Jan-3-08)
- Highway Construction Carter-Waters Corp. pays $176,000 for helping contractors circumvent rules for the use of disadvantaged minority businesses. (Jan-3-08)
- Employee Discrimination Lockheed Martin Corp. agrees to pay former aviation electrician a $2.5 million racial bias settlement. (Jan-3-08)
- Dog Treat Patent Mars Inc. pays MGP Ingredients Inc. $8 million patent infringement settlement. (Jan-3-08)