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- Phone Records CEO Group pays $25,000 FTC fine for selling phone records to third parties. (Dec-21-07)
- Retailer Fraud Former Boston Baby president pays $41,000 settlement to employees for back pay and vacation time. (Dec-21-07)
- Record Keeping City of Jacksonville pays IRS $140,000 fine for accounting flaws. (Dec-21-07)
- Asbestos Violations Community Development Corporation of Kansas City pays $450,000 settlement involving construction site asbestos. (Dec-20-07)
- Gender Discrimination Female employees awarded $250,000 settlement for gender bias and retaliation. (Dec-20-07)
- Property Tax Assessment Exelon Generation Company agrees to pay $105 million property tax dispute settlement. (Dec-20-07)
- SafeHouse Center $483,856 settlement in fiscal mismanagement lawsuit. (Dec-20-07)
- Security Breach University of California pays National Nuclear Security Administration $2.8 million settlement. (Dec-19-07)
- Inmate Injury Park County pays inmate $1.5 million settlement after losing his leg while in jail. (Dec-18-07)
- Cadet Rape Fishburne Military School pays former student $250,000 personal injury settlement. (Dec-17-07)
- Traffic Signal State awards family $10 million settlement after son was severely injured in an auto accident. (Dec-17-07)
- Medical Malpractice Insurance Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society returns $84 million to the state of Maryland. (Dec-17-07)
- Deputy Inspector City pays former state chief deputy inspector $360,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Dec-17-07)
- Solid Waste Waste Management of Hawaii Inc. spends $1.5 million after violating landfill regulations. (Dec-17-07)
- Air Line Bankruptcy BCI Aircraft Leasing agrees to pay $600,000 settlement related to Delta Air Lines bankruptcy claims. (Dec-17-07)
- Back Wages Barstow Fire Protection District pays former fire chief $90,000 in back wages. (Dec-17-07)
- Police Shooting The family of Bernet Vaba has agreed to settle a wrongful death suit for $210,000 in a lawsuit that alleged police were too hasty and used excessive force against the woman. (Dec-15-07)
- Child Abuse Settlement The mother of 6-year-old Brandon Ford has accepted a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that claimed the boy was severely brain damaged while in foster care. (Dec-14-07)
- Racial Slurs A teenager has been ordered to pay $128,500 to a black family who alleged the boy left a box marked "KKK" that contained racial slurs, in their driveway. (Dec-13-07)
- Flute Player Arrested Felix Wilkins will accept $27,500 to settle a lawsuit that claims the city of Philadelphia wrongfully arrested him for playing his flute on a corner. (Dec-13-07)
- Tunnel Collapse The family of Milena Del Valle are close to accepting $6 million to resolve a wrongful death suit claiming that Powers Fasteners failed to warn contractors of the consequences of using the wrong glue. (Dec-13-07)
- Texaco Truck Crash Driver Jason Secondino and Guilforc Texaco have agreed to pay the family of 17-year-old Tim Orefice $18.3 million after the youth was killed by the Texaco tow truck. (Dec-13-07)
- Corrections Overcharges Corrections Corp. of America has agreed to pay $1.55 million to resolve allegations that the company overcharged the State of Florida. (Dec-13-07)
- School Business Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School has agreen to pay $800,000 to settle allegations that the school breached a contract with Rodis LLC to manage the school's business affairs. (Dec-13-07)
- Oil Spill Crab Fishermen will get $700,000 compensation for an oil spill from the Cosco Busan that affected the crab fishing in San Francisco, Half Moon Bay and Bodega Bay. (Dec-13-07)
- Warren Midicare Fraud Warren Hospital has agreed to pay $265 million to settle allegations that the hospital bilked the government by inflating costs on Medicare claims. (Dec-12-07)
- Deloitte Audit Deloitte & Touche have agreed to pay $1 million to resolve allegations that they botched an audit of Legand Pharmaceuticals by entrusting it to a partner it new to be a poor auditor. (Dec-12-07)
- Stillwater Disclosures Stillwater Mining Company has agreed to pay $2.6 million to shareholders who filed a lawsuit challenging the accuracy of the company's public disclosures concerning financial results and ore reserves. (Dec-12-07)
- Excessive Force Corpus Christi, TX has agreed to pay Ruben Galvan $50,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the police of using excessive force and violating his constitutional rights during his arrest outside a downtown nightclub. (Dec-12-07)
- Stolen Sand Hanson Building Materials agrees to pay $42.2 million for allegedly defrauding the state of California out of millions of dollars in royalty payments for sand mined in Suisun and San Francisco Bays. (Dec-12-07)
- Illegal Payday Loans Nine companies agree to pay $1 million to settle charges that they offered illegal payday loans disguised as instant cash rebates for Internet services. (Dec-12-07)
- Asphalt Tests Falsified Gohmann Asphalt and Construction has agreed to pay $8.2 million to settle accusations that the company falsified tests on asphalt samples which resulted in substandard quality services. (Dec-12-07)
- Real Estate Kickbacks Attorney General sues law firm accusing it of concealing $142,200 in kickbacks, resulting in $700,000 in fines for the law firm, the mortgage firm and the real estate broker. (Dec-12-07)
- Target Discrimination Target Corp. has agreed to pay $510,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit that claims the company discriminated against four management applicants on the basis of their color. (Dec-12-07)
- GoldSpring overbilling GoldSpring has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle allegations that it overbilled N.A. Degerstrom for services provided. (Dec-12-07)
- Medicaid Fraud Harris Methodist Hospital has agreed to pay $1.9 million to settle allegations that the hospital submitted improper Medicaid and Medicare claims. (Dec-12-07)
- Sexual Harassment Settlement A claim that Knicks coach Isaiah Thomas sexually harassed and wrongfully terminated Anuch Sanders, has been settled for $11.5 million in punitive damages. (Dec-12-07)
- Woods' Wife Wins Tiger Woods' wife Elin has won a lawsuit that claimed The Dubliner, an Irish magazine, published an abusive article and a fake nude photo of her, settling for $183,250. (Dec-11-07)
- Executive Overspending $7 million will be paid out to settle a suit brought on behalf of Covad Communications Group Inc, alleging the directors approved lavish executive contracts and junkets for themselves. (Dec-11-07)
- Volleyball Coach Termination Ben Stroud will receive more than $357,300 to settle a lawsuit that claims the College of Southern Idaho wrongfully terminated him alleging he violated NJCAA rules. (Dec-11-07)
- Boy Scouts claim Molestation Two former Boy Scouts have received a confidential settlement after charging they were molested by a camp director while staffers at Camp Little Lehmi. (Dec-11-07)
- 866 Patent Dispute Settled ImClone Systems, Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis have agreed to pay Yeda Research and Development Company Ltd. $60 million each to settle claims of patent infringement. (Dec-11-07)
- Torture Charges Settled Chicago city and police department have agreed to pay $19.8 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the police tortured and coerced false confessions to murder from four suspects. (Dec-11-07)
- Tribes Settle Logging Dispute The Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe has agreed to pay $92 million to settle a long standing reservation sharing dispute over money from logging activities five decades ago. (Dec-11-07)
- Patient dies of Internal Injuries Western State Hospital has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit that claims a fellow patient brutally attacked John McCloskey, who died of his injuries. (Dec-11-07)
- Child Dies in Hot Tub Sonoma Springs Partners have agreed to pay $1.9 to settle the wrongful death lawsuit that claims 4-year-old Auston Elmore died in a hot tub they had no permit to operate. (Dec-11-07)
- Holocaust Survivors must pay Legal Fees Holocaust survivors who were awarded a $1.5 billion settlement regarding banks that looted Jewish assets, are forced to pay $3.1 million in legal fees. (Dec-10-07)
- Teacher wins Wrongful Termination Suit Cyndi Greening receives $10,000 for wrongfully terminated after the college accused her of double-enrolling students and asking a student to team-teach a class. (Dec-10-07)
- Gender Discrimination Former university basketball coach awarded $19.1 million gender bias settlement. (Dec-9-07)
- Parking Lot Robbery Man shot in the neck by a robber awarded jury verdict of $102.7 million personal injury settlement. (Dec-9-07)