March 18, 2024
Pharmacy and retailer Walgreens Co. has agreed to pay $205,000 and provide other relief to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Walgreens violated …
March 7, 2024
A man who was stunned with a Taser while handcuffed, including on his lip, has settled a federal lawsuit with a Colorado sheriff’s department for $1.5 million, his lawyers said. Kenneth Espinoza was arrested after he stopped to wait for …
March 5, 2024
A Michigan village has agreed to a $320,000 settlement with a man from Japan who was wrongly accused of drunken driving after a police officer badly misread a breath test, court records show. Ryohei Akima blew a 0.02 on the …
February 29, 2024
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called debtors’ prison. The legal …
February 27, 2024
Family Dollar agreed this week to pay $41.7 million for holding food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under insanitary conditions at company’s West Memphis, Arkansas, distribution center. A criminal information unveiled Feb. 26 in federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, …
February 27, 2024
Southern California Edison agreed to pay the United States $80 million to cover costs and damages incurred by the U.S. Forest Service from the 2017 Thomas wildfire in California’s Los Padres National Forecast, the Department of Justice said on Monday. …
February 26, 2024
The Iowa Insurance Division announced it entered a settlement in principle with a group of affiliated companies commonly known as Abra. The settlement addresses Abra’s alleged offer and sale of interest-bearing cryptocurrency depository products referred to as Abra Boost and …
February 21, 2024
A company has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the federal government and the state of New Mexico to address air pollution concerns in the largest oil and gas producing region in the United States. The agreement announced last week with …
February 15, 2024
Hospital Housekeeping Systems, LLC (HHS), a provider of housekeeping, food and facilities support to numerous industries, based in Dripping Springs, Texas, will pay $520,000 as part of the settlement of a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment …
February 14, 2024
The city of Minneapolis agreed last week to pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that journalists were subjected to police harassment and even hurt while covering protests over the police killings of George Floyd. The suit, brought by the …