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- $1.1M Settlement in Franklin County Jail Strip Search Suit (Feb-4-11)
- $1.25 Billion Settlement Reached with Black Farmers over Discrimination (Feb-19-10)
- $1.9M Settlement Reached in Stun Gun Incident (Apr-29-11)
- $3 Million Settlement Reached in METO Class Action (Sep-15-10)
- $4.3 Million Settlement Tentatively Approved in First Group Class Action (Mar-18-11)
- $5.5 Million Settlement Reached in Bexar Jail Strip Search Suit (Dec-8-10)
- $6M Settlement Reached in New United Motors Manufacturing Employment Class Action Lawsuit (Sep-3-13)
- $7 Million Settlement Reached in Illegal Strip Search Class Action (Feb-25-11)
- 10 Months Lost Innocent man to get $581,700 settlement in wrongful conviction lawsuits. (Apr-25-08)
- 24 Innocent Years Tallahassee to pay $1.25 million settlement wrongful conviction lawsuit. (May-8-08)
- Abortion Rights Legislator Vaughn Flora agrees to confidential settlement after physically harming protester. (Jan-6-08)
- Academy School District 20 $150,000 settlement paid to a teacher for violating her civil rights. (Oct-2-06)
- Activist Protest New York City pays two activist groups $50,000 settlement for free speech violations. (Jan-10-08)
- ADA Violations Upper Township must spend money to upgrade facilities to meet disability standards. (Oct-14-07)
- Age Discrimination Class Action Settled for $8.75 Million (Oct-30-09)
- Agua Caliente $200,000 payout resolves state campaign disclosure laws dispute. (Jul-16-07)
- Albany Housing Authority employees accused of forging ballots. (Feb-8-05)
- Albertsons and S & J Security $310,000 settlement awarded to four teenagers who were held for hours by security guards and forced to drink vodka. (Jan-31-06)
- Allentown, PA Protesters get undisclosed settlement in civil rights violation lawsuit. (Apr-12-07)
- Andrew Scott Officer fined $5,000 and censured for ethics violation. (Mar-13-07)
- Antonio Lasaga. A $16.5 million judgment was rendered in the case alleging tha.. (May-5-04)
- Apartment Owner. A lawsuit filed by officials from the city of Medford, Massac.. (May-7-03)
- Archdiocese of Denver Settles 5.5 million in claims (Jul-2-08)
- Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System $1.29 million settlement for dialysis costs coverage. (Mar-21-07)
- Arkansas Municipal League $25,000 settlement in illegal search lawsuit. (Aug-22-07)
- Atlanta Police Department $350,000 settlement awarded to a woman pulled from her car and thrown onto the pavement by a police officer. (Nov-18-05)
- Atlantic City, NJ Police officer gets $2.3 million compensation for being wrongly accused of homicide. (Apr-24-07)
- Averted Hit and Run David Kyle Smith ordered to pay $450,000 after driving by a police car accident. (Jan-28-08)
- Bakersfield, CA $250,000 settlement in police misconduct lawsuit. (May-24-07)
- Baltimore, MD $138,000 budgeted to update juvenile detention services. (May-23-07)
- Bareback Artist School board pays $65,000 settlement to fired art teacher. (Mar-10-08)
- Bayer AG and GlaxoSmithKline will pay a combined $345 million dollars to settl.. (May-7-03)
- Bend City, OR $200,000 funding to make bus system accessible to the disabled. (May-18-07)
- Berkeley County School District and the Goose Creek Police Department $1.6 million class action settlement awarded to Stratford High School students. (Jul-11-06)
- Blarney Pub and Grill $20,000 civil fine for serving alcohol to underage varsity students. (Apr-27-07)
- 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)
- BP America $30 million settlement with New Mexico over land use royalties (Apr-25-05)
- Brattleboro, VT $150,000 excessive force settlement awarded after a suicidal man was shot to death. (Nov-30-06)
- Breast Cancer Patient Awarded $8.1 Million in Discrimination Case (Sep-10-10)
- Brick Investment Corporation and 7th Street Associates, Inc. $125,000 civil fine in lead poisoning federal disclosure rule violations. (Jun-4-07)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Baxter International Inc, 3M Co., Dow Chemical $11.3 million settlement for medical reimbursement.. (Oct-18-04)
- Brooklyn, NY $54,250 paid out in First Amendment lawsuit over art show ban. (Jun-9-07)
- Broward, FL $2.7 million settlement in wrongful arrests and imprisonment suit. (Jun-20-07)
- Burger King Discrimination Class Action Lawsuit Reaches Proposed $19M Settlement (Oct-31-12)
- C.C. Myers Inc. $90,000 civil settlement awarded plus $10,000 in trust to the Stevens family. (Jul-5-06)
- California Recovery Team $200,200 settlement awarded to the Fair Political Practices Commission. (Jul-11-06)
- Camden County, NJ $7.5 million settlement in illegal strip search lawsuit pending court approval. (Sep-14-07)
- Campaign Contributions $260,000 settlement reached in election fraud lawsuit. (Jan-7-08)
- Canadian Federal Government Cited $2.2 million wrongful imprisonment settlement. (Oct-6-06)
- Canberra, Australia A$1 million ($830,000) settlement in "school bully" abuse lawsuit. (May-15-07)