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- Sanitation Overtime Raleigh agreed to pay city workers $60,000 settlement. (Nov-17-07)
- Salmon River US Government to pay $170 million to restore the San Joaquin River. (Nov-16-07)
- River Overflow Royal BAM NV agrees to 55 million property damage settlement. (Nov-16-07)
- Fuel Efficient Contract Dana Corp. agrees to pay Permo-Drive Technologies $1.3 million breach of contract settlement. (Nov-16-07)
- Loan Backers Mortgage Lenders Network pays $855,000 bankruptcy settlement for unfunded mortgages. (Nov-15-07)
- Fertilizer Plant Helena Chemical Co. pays $230,000 for air quality and emissions violations. (Nov-15-07)
- Off-Label Drug Marketing Cephalon agrees to $425 million settlement for promoting the use of drugs for unapproved uses. (Nov-15-07)
- Building Inspector Harassment Hayward Police Department agrees to pay former city employee $473,000 gender bias settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Teacher Discrimination Salem-Keizer School District pays former teacher undisclosed age and gender bias settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- High School Football Stockton Unified School District agrees to settlement for recruiting players. (Nov-15-07)
- Doctor Termination Massena Memorial Hospital pays $1.5 million unfair termination settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Inmate Death Montgomery County agrees to $21,000 settlement after an inmate died from cardiac dysrhythmia. (Nov-15-07)
- Annuities Principal Financial Group Inc. agrees to $5 million settlement for single premium group annuity policy kickbacks. (Nov-15-07)
- Oil for Food Chevron Corp. pays $30 million SEC settlement for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. (Nov-15-07)
- Employee Reassignment Chillicothe City Schools pays former director of personnel $30,000 settlement. (Nov-15-07)
- Plastic Surgeon Malpractice Kanye West's mother's doctor previously paid over $450,000 in two malpractice settlements. (Nov-14-07)
- Jail Negligence Daughter awarded $350,000 wrongful death settlement after father dies of heart failure. (Nov-14-07)
- Property Tax Revenue City of Columbia pays Richland County $5.5 million settlement for mismanaged funds. (Nov-14-07)
- Risk Management Plans Twenty-six Californian facilities pay $18,800 EPA fine for violating the Clean Air Act. (Nov-14-07)
- Stock Mismanagement Elderly couple awarded $685,000 settlement after a stock broker lost 95% of their savings on risky investments. (Nov-14-07)
- Construction Mud Dixon Builders pays $80,000 EPA fine. (Nov-14-07)
- Principal Tenure Phillipsburg School District awarded former principal $58,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Nov-14-07)
- Copper Mine Pollution Judge approves $158 million settlement. (Nov-14-07)
- Corrections Discrimination Niagara County Sheriff's Department employee $86,000 wrongful termination and racial bias settlement. (Nov-14-07)
- Apprehension Agent State of Minnesota pays employee whistleblower and discrimination settlement. (Nov-14-07)
- Apartment Fire Building owners and manager pay $6 million settlement after six children died in the blaze. (Nov-14-07)
- Principal Removed Beaufort County School District pays former principal $60,000 wrongful termination settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Survival School Boulder Outdoor Survival School pays family undisclosed settlement after their son died of dehydration. (Nov-13-07)
- Police Severance Former Police Chief awarded $39,000 severance settlement after being fired for misconduct. (Nov-13-07)
- Collapsed Culvert Niagara County pays injured woman $350,000 settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Stun Gun Teenager awarded $50,000 settlement after being tasered ten times by an NYPD officer. (Nov-13-07)
- Wheelchair Ramp Menehune Shores and Asset Property Management Inc. pay $200,000 disability discrimination settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Bankruptcy Discrimination Fired Hanceville Police Chief awarded $125,000 bias settlement from city. (Nov-13-07)
- Wrongful Termination Campbellsville Water Co. pays former employee $208,000 settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- Unsolicited Marketing Ameriquest Mortgage Co. and ADT Security Services pay $8 million FTC fine for telemarketing Do Not Call recipients. (Nov-13-07)
- NBA Divorce Michael Jordan pays former wife $168 million divorce settlement. (Nov-13-07)
- 9/11 Wrongful Death NBC producer's family awarded undisclosed settlement from American Airlines. (Nov-12-07)
- Employee Gender Discrimination Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company pays employee $4.4 million gender bias settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- Auto Promotion Fraud Bill Heard Chevrolet pays $400,000 Florida State fine for misleading advertising. (Nov-12-07)
- Internet Phone Patent Vonage agrees to pay AT&T $39 million patent infringement settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- Detention Center Suicide Union County pays mother of teen aged boy $780,000 wrongful death settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- Police Sniper City of Portland pays family $500,000 wrongful death settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- First Nation Land Province of British Columbia pays band $20.3 million and gives them 22 hectares of land to save the university golf course. (Nov-12-07)
- Alter Boy Abuse Diocese of Scranton pays $3 million to teen aged abuse victim. (Nov-12-07)
- CD Price Fixing Sony, Time Warner, and Virgin Group pay $67.4 million antitrust settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- TV Patent TVWorks LLC pays OpenTV $1.5 million patent infringement settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- Recycling Pollution Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc. pays $1.3 million settlement for Clean Air Act violations. (Nov-12-07)
- Groundwater Contamination San Bernardino pays $11 million EPA fine for landfill waste. (Nov-12-07)
- Athletic Director Severance University of North Dakota pays former employee $154,000 resignation settlement. (Nov-12-07)
- Speech Defamation Great Lakes Dredge & Dock agrees to settlement after recording and disseminating an attorney's speech. (Nov-11-07)