On Tuesday, November 22 , Magistrate Judge Timothy Rice of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted final approval of a $37.5 million class action settlement. The case — Reyes v. Zions First National Bank — alleged that Zions Bank and a former payment processing subsidiary knowingly processed payments for …
Rutgers University has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by former men’s basketball player Derrick Randall, who claimed he was “chronically and heinously targeted and abused, both physically and psychologically,” by former coach Mike Rice. Filed in federal court on Dec. 6, 2013, the lawsuit was settled April 7, according to court documents. The settlement came after …
The city on Monday reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center. An order filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland said the city will pay out $3 million this year and $3 million the next. There was no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement.
Wendy’s faces a class-action suit over a breach that occurred last year and resulted in hundreds of thousands of fraudulent credit card transactions. Pennsylvania-based First Choice Credit Union filed a class action lawsuit against Wendy’s over a data breach the retailer experienced last year. The suit alleged that …