A settlement agreement for minors who had water contaminated with cryptosporidium in North Battleford, Sask., 15 years ago has been given preliminary approval. Thousands of people got sick in March and April 2001 when the parasite, which can cause diarrhea and vomiting, was found in the city’s drinking water. 15 years after Sask.
Schneider National Carriers Inc. will pay $28 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by California truck drivers who claim the company shorted them on pay. The resolution of the case, which dates to 2008, marks the …
Deadlines in a $30 million class action settlement with Wells Fargo over alleged violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act have been pushed back to avoid an additional $900,000 in costs by the class. The settlement, which amounts to $30,446,022.75, was preliminarily approved by Judge Richard Story of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District …
A settlement has been reached between a group of animation workers and DreamWorks Animation in a class action lawsuit alleging that DreamWorks and other companies violated antitrust laws by conspiring to set animation wages via nonpoaching agreements. According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Monday, the settlement provides for a cash payment of $50 million to a …
Attorneys for Natasha Lancour, the insurer for the officers and the city reached an agreement and informed a federal magistrate on Oct. 3; the magistrate dismissed the case that had been set for trial Oct. 31. “During the mediation part of the process, the parties obviously saw fit to resolve it short of going to trial,” Superior City Attorney Frog Prell told Wisconsin Public Radio. The …
Buy Photo Rochester’s Douglass-Anthony Memorial Bridge, with the city skyline. (Photo: Democrat and Chronicle file photo)Buy Photo Taxpayers could be on the hook for $2 million to help the downtown convention center settle a lawsuit in which banquet staffers claimed they never got a cut of a service charge billed to customers. The city and its Rochester Convention Center Management Corp., a …
An Islamic academy will get $1.7 million and be allowed to build a new school after it settled a federal lawsuit against a Michigan township that initially denied its zoning request. The Michigan Islamic Academy will move ahead with plans to build the school and housing on land in Pittsfield Township, near Ann Arbor, after township officials approved the settlement Wednesday. The academy sued …
Truck maker Navistar has moved nearer the end of the road in a legal fight over whether it had misled investors about its chances to build a new truck engine both in line with federal emissions requirements and superior to those made by competitors, as a group of shareholders have asked a federal judge to sign off on a $9.1 million settlement deal. On Sept. 28, attorneys for the shareholders …
The state of that enter the state from other states after the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association reached a $44.4 million tax refund agreement with the state. The state’s Supreme Court agreed earlier this year with OOIDA’s challenge that the registration and decal taxes in the state were unconstitutional and discriminatory against out-of-state truckers who drive mostly in other …
The Florida Department of Corrections and former prison health-care provider Corizon have agreed to pay about $2.1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the state agency and the company denied hernia operations to inmates to save money. Under the settlement, Corizon agreed to pay $1.7 million to current and former inmates. The Department of Corrections agreed to pay $150,000 …