About 150 groups from around the country that provide services to American Indian farmers and ranchers have applied to receive grant money from a $38 million one-time fund set up as part of the federal government’s loan discrimination settlement with Native Americans. An advisory committee will whittle down the proposals and make a recommendation to a federal judge by Oct. …
Filthy cells, toilets and walls covered in blood and feces, and sexual harassment by sheriffs’ deputies – those are just some of the things women say they’ve endured at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Four women who filed a federal lawsuit over the jail’s conditions have settled with Alameda County, and say the fact that they’re white helped bring about the settlement and changes at …
Deerfield Academy has settled a federal lawsuit filed by a former student who accused a former mathematics teacher at the prestigious private school of sexually abusing him. The victim, referred to in the lawsuit as “John Doe” and who was 14 at the time of the 1979 incident, filed it against Peter Hindle, who retired from Deerfield Academy in 2000 after working there for over four …
A federal judge ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the town of Fortville’s procedure for disputing unpaid water bills that class members’ constitutional rights to procedural due process trump the state’s public policy of enforcing contracts. Bobbi Kilburn-Winnie and Michelle Allen-Gregory had their water service disconnected after not paying their bills on time. They allege that the …
Hundreds of Mille Lacs County, Minn. residents went to bed on July 1 with a million reasons to feel a little better. On that day, a settlement was announced between residents and Mille Lacs County and Mikki Jo Peterick, a former child support investigator for the Mille Lacs County Department of Family Services, in a case that involved Peterick’s unauthorized …
July 27 — A settlement agreement over allegedly defective pistols between Brazilian gunmaker
Forjas Taurus S.A. and a plaintiff representing a class of gun owners has received
final approval from a federal judge (Carter v. Forjas Taurus, S.A., 2016 BL 236801
S.D. Fla., No. 1:13-cv-24583 , settlement approved
7/22/16
).
Court documents show Facebook has agreed to allow users to request refunds of in-app purchases made by minors as part of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit was brought in 2012 by two children and their parents. It claimed the children racked up hundreds of dollars in purchases of Facebook Credits, a since-discontinued currency used by the site.
Modesto has agreed to pay $850,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed against the city that claimed one of its officers used excessive force and was negligent when he shot a distraught, suicidal man armed with a pocketknife in 2010. The shooting left Brian Reed, 46 – a former truck driver and dispatcher – disabled and with cognitive deficits because of the lack of oxygen to his brain after being …
Word comes that the parties to the suit filed by the parents of Derek Sheely, the football player who died from concussion-related injuries, have reached a settlement. The Board of Public Works approved the state’s part of the deal Wednesday. The three-member panel voted in favor of the proposed $50,000 payout to the family of Derek Sheely, who died in 2011 after he collapsed on the practice …
Anyone who has purchased an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 may be entitled to a $30 payout for every car they purchased now that the NVIDIA class-action lawsuit over the GTX 970 memory has now been settled. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang apologised to buyers about the issue and promised that it would never happen again. Read below to see if you are entitled to a payout from the settlement.