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- Tracy, CA $73 million settlement to ensure students graduate with diploma. (Jul-27-07)
- Trans Bay Steel Corp. $1.4 million human trafficking settlement. (Dec-10-06)
- Transportation Security Administration. A settlement has been reached in the r.. (Sep-5-03)
- Travis County TX offers 72-year old woman $40k to settle taser suit (Oct-1-09)
- Unarmed Suspect Shot Riverside, CA to pay $800,000 settlement in wrongful death shooting. (Mar-7-08)
- United States Federal Government An $87,500 settlement for denying a refugee. (May-2-05)
- United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund Establishment and Development (Jun-29-16)
- University of California, San Francisco $92,500 fine for over 60 violations of the Animal Welfare Act. (Oct-4-05)
- University of California $630,000 tentative settlement awarded to the Coghill family. (Jul-17-06)
- University of Iowa $925,000 settlement in stuttering research lawsuit. (Aug-20-07)
- US Federal Government. (Nov-12-03)
- US Federal Government Lawyer gets compensated $1.34 million for wrong conviction by federal agency. (Feb-1-07)
- US Government $2 million settlement awarded to a Muslim lawyer wrongfully arrested. (Nov-29-06)
- US Government $300,000 settlement awarded to a man wrongfully detained after the 9-11 attacks. (Mar-20-06)
- Vectren $170,000 settlement for natural gas emergency education after two people were killed in an explosion. (Jul-5-05)
- Video Taping Arrest Harris County pays wrongfully arrested brothers $1.7 million civil rights settlement. (Mar-4-08)
- Vivid Entertainment Close to $5 million paid in civil rights lawsuit over adult entertainment tape distribution. (May-3-07)
- Wal-Mart Must Pay $6.5 Million to Employees to settle overtime class action (Jul-2-08)
- Wall Township, NJ $145,500 settlement in breach of privacy lawsuit. (Sep-24-07)
- Warwick, RI $600,000 wrongful conviction settlement awarded to a former police detective. (Aug-16-06)
- Washington Department of Social and Health Services $4 million settlement for siblings.. (Nov-12-03)
- Washington State Patrol $2 million settlement awarded to nine women who were fondled by a highway trooper. (May-19-06)
- Washington State $250,000 police misconduct awarded to an African American women who was pulled over without probable cause. (Feb-10-06)
- Washington State A $2.5 million settlement for violating mental paitent civil rights. (Mar-18-05)
- Washington State a lawsuit on behalf of businesses in Washington State dismissed. (Jul-11-06)
- Washington State Reaches Settlement in Child Care Workers Class Action (Aug-22-08)
- Washington to Pay $13.7 Million to Demonstrators (Nov-24-09)
- Washoe County, NV $182,000 settlement in illegal strip search lawsuit. (Jul-30-07)
- Wayne County $225,000 settlement awarded to a man who spent 17 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. (Mar-29-06)
- Wells County, IN $125,000 wrongful death settlement after an inmate died of a bacterial infection. (Dec-11-06)
- Wells Fargo Settles Gender Bias Suit (Jun-9-11)
- West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources $850,000 settlement for negligently letting a mentally disabled mother take her five year old son home in the middle of winter with no heat that lead to his death by hypothermia. (Oct-25-05)
- Weston, CT $7,000 settlement in police misconduct and excessive force civil lawsuit. (Jul-5-07)
- White County School District Settlement for Equal Access Act violations. (Jan-11-07)
- Winston-Salem, NC Man wrongly convicted, spends 18 years in prison, and gets $358,545 restitution and $1.6 million as compensation. (Feb-25-07)
- Wisconsin Department of Transportation Fine for not complying with an open record request. (Jan-31-07)
- Women's Studies Rights Rhode Island College pays fine for removing signage. (Sep-26-07)
- 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)
- Wrong Bus Greenbrier County Board of Education agrees to $15,000 negligence settlement after dropping a 5-year-old off at the wrong spot. (Feb-28-08)
- Wrongful Arrest FBI to pay undisclosed settlement in Waddling Bandit lawsuit. (May-14-08)
- Wrongful Conviction Family of mentally challenged man awarded $700,000 settlement after his death. (Jan-9-08)
- Wrongful Conviction Miami agrees to $2.2 million settlement in injustice lawsuit. (May-12-08)
- Wrongful Imprisonment and Conviction Man awarded $3.5 million after spending 15 years in jail for a crime he did not commit. (Jan-14-08)
- Wrongful Imprisonment Man awarded multi million dollar settlement after spending 23 years in prison. (Jan-13-08)
- Wrongful Seizure Jim Wells County to pay $110,000 settlement in lawsuit. (May-7-08)
- Youth Prisons Require Improvement Columbus to pay up to $30 million settlement in correctional facilities lawsuit. (Apr-7-08)