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• Harman-Chiu Inc. $349,800 settlement paid to three female employees for gender discrimination and harassment. (Oct-2-06)
• San Diego County, CA $400,000 settlement awarded to a widow whose husband died while in custody. (Sep-28-06)
• Marin County, CA $1 million paid to the family of a man who died after being arrested. (Sep-19-06)
• Fremont Unified School District Proposed $450,000 settlement for vandal watcher's back pay. (Sep-18-06)
• Second Chance Body Armor Inc. and Toyobo Co. Ltd. $3.6 million settlement awarded after a police officer died wearing a bulletproof vest. (Sep-9-06)
• County-USC Medical Center $2.18 million settlement awarded to a brain damaged teenaged boy. (Sep-5-06)
• Tower Tours and Coach USA/Gray Line $3.1 million settlement awarded to concierges and bellmen for cutting commissions. (Aug-31-06)
• Los Angeles County $2.5 million settlement awarded to a woman hit by a tram. (Aug-24-06)
• City of San Jose $800,000 settlement awarded to the Hells Angels after a police raid left three dogs dead. (Aug-24-06)
• Los Angeles County $50,000 settlement awarded to a woman who tripped and fell on a sidewalk. (Aug-23-06)
• Colonial HealthCare $160,000 fine for the death of two patients due to inadequate care. (Aug-21-06)
• Rabobank $830,000 settlement awarded to King City regarding a financial dispute. (Aug-17-06)
• Kaiser Permanente $2 million fine for the mismanagement of the kidney transplant program in Northern California. (Aug-10-06)
• CSX and Amtrak $3.6 million settlement awarded to the family of a man who was killed at a train crossing. (Jun-13-06)
• Harbor-UCLA Medical Center $200,000 settlement after a 9-year-old boy died after receiving excessive amounts of a leukemia drug. (Jun-8-06)
• Albertsons Inc. $2 million for overcharging customers by failing to subtract packaging weight. (Jun-1-06)
• FAX.com Inc. $428,000 settlement for sending junk advertisements. (May-19-06)
• Shoreline Amphitheatre $10 million settlement for undisclosed revenues. (May-16-06)
• Berkeley Iceland Settlement awarded after allegations of gay discrimination. (May-16-06)
• Merced County $15,000 personal injury settlement awarded to a diabetic man attacked by two deputies on steroids. (May-11-06)
• San Bernardino County and Deputy John Monaghan $450,000 settlement for the wrongful death of a suspect. (May-3-06)
• City of Glendale, CA $1.8 million settlement for a police raid. (May-2-06)
• PepsiCo Inc. $1 million civil penalty for failing to warn consumers that labels contained lead. (Apr-25-06)
• San Francisco International Airport Zimbabwe woman gets settlement for immigration official misconduct. (Apr-24-06)
• City of Venice, CA $370,000 awarded in a wrongful prison death suit. (Apr-23-06)
• Melrose Place Apartments Former tenants of the apartment complex receive $3 million settlement. (Apr-23-06)
• City of Los Angeles Noted $1.5 million settlement after a 13-year-old boy was shot to death by a police officer. (Apr-14-06)
• San Jose City $36.5 million settlement awarded to Santa Clara County over fairground development. (Apr-11-06)
• Citigroup Inc. $13.5 million settlement awarded to the University of California for WorldCom fraud. (Apr-7-06)
• Rolling Hills Memorial Park $480,000 personal injury settlement awarded to an elderly man who tripped on a sprinkler head and required a knee replacement. (Mar-30-06)
• City of San Diego $1.9 million settlement for revenues lost after reconfiguring the football stadium to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Mar-24-06)
• Port of Oakland $2 million to be spent on cleaner trucks to reduce emissions. (Mar-22-06)
• Providence St. Joseph Medical Center Undisclosed wrongful death settlement awarded to the family of actor John Ritter. (Mar-16-06)
• Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $6 million to be spent on system reliability improvements after a facility fire left thousands of San Francisco customers without power. (Mar-2-06)
• Ceres, Soares Dairy and Luis T. Bento Dairy $185,000 settlement awarded to workers for unpaid overtime and compensation for rest and meal breaks. (Feb-28-06)
• PG&E, Davey Tree Surgery Co. and Western Environmental Consultants Inc. $5.9 million settlement after a fire burned 47 homes on Yankee Hill. (Feb-22-06)
• Honda of Santa Monica $1.37 million settlement for overcharging consumers for an anti-theft product. (Feb-7-06)
• Santa Clara County $990,000 settlement awarded to Hells Angels members after an unreasonable police raid. (Feb-7-06)
• Pacific Gas and Electric Co. $295 million settlement awarded to California citizens exposed to contaminated water. (Feb-6-06)
• 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)
• City of Los Angeles $1.1 million settlement awarded to the family of Notorious B.I.G. for intentionally withholding evidence. (Jan-23-06)
• Nova Knits Inc. $500,000 settlement awarded to garment workers after being laid off without notice or severance pay. (Jan-17-06)
• AIMCO $3 million settlement awarded to the city of San Francisco for building and health violations. (Jan-10-06)
• City of Oakland $210,000 personal injury settlement awarded to a protester who was hit in the face with a bag of lead. (Jan-4-06)
• Pacific Steel Casting $2 million in environmental upgrades for violations of odorous emissions. (Jan-4-06)
• Mirant Corp. $31.8 million settlement awarded to San Diego Gas & Electric customers after being overcharged during the energy crisis in 2000 and 2001. (Jan-2-06)
• University of California Board of Regents $700,000 settlement awarded to a family who was returned ashes from miscellaneous body parts of other cadavers. (Dec-13-05)
• DIRECTV $5 million settlement for failing to offer local TV channels and providing unreadable contracts. (Dec-13-05)
• State of California $756,000 wrongful conviction settlement awarded a man who spent 20 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. (Dec-12-05)
• Western Farm Service $775,000 settlement awarded to Arvin residents poisoned by a soil fumigant dispersed at Kirschenmann Farms. (Nov-23-05)

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