California has settled a lawsuit alleging mistreatment of death row inmates who were kept in solitary confinement for years only because of their purported gang affiliations. The lawsuit says one inmate was kept there for 26 years and two others more than a decade. The settlement says the state no longer will keep inmates in the center just for being gang members.
BlueNRGY Group Limited (OTC PINK: CBDEF) (“BlueNRGY”) today announced that an agreement in principle has been reached to settle all previously disclosed securities litigation naming as defendants BlueNRGY, one of its U.S. subsidiaries, certain of its current and former officers and directors, and various third parties involved in the company’s …
[JURIST] Facebook [corporate website] settled a class-action lawsuit levied against it on Wednesday for its prior practice of scanning private messages to aid in ads. A motion [text, PDF] was filed on Wednesday, subject to court approval, for declaratory and injunctive relief, though it does not discuss specific monetary awards. In pertinent part, the motion states “[t]he settlement achieves …
SEATTLE (AP) – BNSF Railway and seven environmental groups in Washington and Oregon have settled a lawsuit saying that coal spilled from trains pollutes waterways in Washington state. BNSF admits no wrongdoing in the settlement finalized Friday. The plaintiffs had argued that coal spilled from open-topped train cars is polluting the Columbia River and other waterways in the Pacific Northwest.
Attorneys for prisoners with disabilities at the Montana State Prison and the state of Montana today filed a proposed settlement agreement that will bring the prison into greater compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This agreement guarantees that prisoners with physical disabilities will have greater access to facilities and programs at the prison that are available …
Grand Valley State University has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit that said the university unfairly restricted free speech on campus. Student group “Turning Point USA at Grand Valley State University” was critical of the school’s Free Speech Zone Policy in its December lawsuit for limiting expressive activity to “speech zones” and requiring students to gain prior …
The Justice Department has settled a religious discrimination lawsuit brought late in President Obama’s term against a Michigan city for turning down an Islamic center’s zoning request to build a mosque. The government lawsuit came after the American Islamic Community Center sued the city of Sterling Heights in August over the denial. The center wanted to build in the city as they …
The Chesapeake School Board has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a boy with Down syndrome and a history of autism. The lawsuit alleged school personnel strapped him into a chair as a means of behavior control. Initially, the lawsuit included both the school board and 10 unnamed employees, but the employees were removed, leaving the school board as the only …
The family of Tony Robinson, the 19-year-old fatally shot by police in Madison in 2015, has apparently settled a federal civil rights lawsuit. Family members and their attorneys plan to hold a news conference Thursday to discuss the $3.3 million settlement. Madison police officer Matt Kenny, who is white, shot the unarmed black teenager March 6, 2015 in an apartment house …
Andrea Irwin hugs her son Malik Robinson, 15, outside the state Capitol Thursday as her attorneys discuss the $3.35 million settlement of a lawsuit the family brought against the city and Madison police Officer Matt Kenny after he shot and killed her son Tony Robinson Jr. in 2015.