Settlements - Media/Telecom

• America Online Inc. $1.25 million in penalties and a promise to reform its customer services practices for continuing to bill customers after they cancelled their Internet service. (Aug-30-05)
• Radio Station Hot 97 $240,000 settlement for producing and airing a slapping contest from April 2004 to January 2005. (Aug-18-05)
• Sunday Mirror Substantial settlement awarded to supermodel Kate Moss for defamation of character. (Aug-11-05)
• News Group Newspapers Substantial sum awarded to Cameron Diaz for defamation in an out of court settlement (Aug-6-05)
• Journal Communications $5000 settlement awarded to Robert Miranda for defamation of character from a Web Log. (Aug-5-05)
• Sony BMG Music Entertainment $10 million fraud settlement for bribing radio programmers into playing the company's artists. (Aug-1-05)
• Charter Communications Inc. $75,000 contribution paid to the Merchandising Practices Revolving Fund for violating Missouri's no call law. (Jul-25-05)
• AT&T Corp. $800,000 settlement awarded to Texas consumers who were overcharged on long distance. (Jul-25-05)
• Vanity Fair $387,000 defamation settlement awarded to filmmaker Roman Polanski. (Jul-22-05)
• AT&T A $1.3 million overcharge settlement. (Jun-7-05)
• Clarence Jernigan A $500,000 fine for vidoe poker games. (Apr-11-05)
• Microsoft A $60 million settlement for patent infringement. (Mar-14-05)
• Reliance Infocomm An Rs.1.5 billion telecommunications settlement for overseas phone calls. (Mar-7-05)
• Alabama Spam Ring A multi-million dollar settlement for illegal spamming. (Jan-29-05)
• Hard Rock Casino A $100,000 fine was paid to the Nevada Gaming Commission for a racy advertisement. (Jan-4-05)
• Rod Stewart Concert cancellation. (Nov-15-04)
• Alltel. The North Carolina Court of Appeals reinstated a 3.24 million dollar A.. (Oct-25-04)
• Verizon Wireless. San Diego Superior Court Judge William Pate has approved the.. (Jun-20-04)
• AOL Time Warner Inc Under a proposed settlement with the Federal Trade Commiss.. (Sep-24-03)
• Island Def Jam Music Group A $132 million dollar verdict has been awarded to T.. (May-28-03)