Seven current and former Princeton Police Officers will receive nearly $4 million from the town to settle a years-long sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuit was approved this week. Two will get sums over $1 million.
Officers filed the suit in September 2013, shortly after then-chief David Dudeck was forced to leave the department after allegations of administrative misconduct.
Last year’s mass shooting of 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., refocused national attention on gun control, but in the campaigning that followed, Georgia politicians still accepted thousands from the National Rifle Association and other pro-gun groups.
But that’s not the whole story.
The plaintiff in a federal police brutality lawsuit against the city that ended in a $250,000 jury award last month is now seeking over $200,000 in attorneys’ fees and trial-related costs.
Should Lee Hutchins Sr. prevail in the attorneys’ fee petition, filed on his behalf last Friday in U.S. District Court in Boston, the City of Springfield could be on the hook for more than $450,000.
James Christian Angeles learned he could sell more of his sperm if he lied about his educational achievements., so he became a sperm donor and claimed he was a Ph.D. candidate with an IQ of 160.
It came out that Angeles had dropped out of college, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and had a felony conviction. The adopting couple found out the truth after they had two children using the sperm donor. They made various claims in the Northern District of Georgia, but a trial judge dismissed their case because there is no wrongful birth claim in Georgia.
A shaky, nearly two-decade truce between doctors and trial lawyers has been broken by a proposal being entertained by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that could roll back restrictions on medical malpractice lawsuits.
Over the last decade, malpractice claims and settlements have held steady, averaging 379 and $461,052 respectively.
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Southern courts favor physicians in malpractice lawsuits over facial trauma treatment, while courts in the Midwest favor patients, according to a Rutgers study. The study, which was published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, is the first to explore facial trauma litigation. It also found that outcomes in facial trauma lawsuits generally favor physicians, with nearly three-fourths of cases being dismissed before trial.
Black Hills Federal Credit Union and a Wisconsin-based insurance company have agreed to pay $3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming they improperly raised insurance premiums on thousands of loans. A judge is expected to consider the proposed settlement later this month.
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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in West Palm Beach ruled in favor of the federal government's request to require a computer financing scheme operator to pay a $13.4 million judgment despite filing for bankruptcy.
BlueHippo Funding LLC, BlueHippo Capital LLC and its former owner Joseph Rensin violated a 2016 federal court order by running a fraudulent computer financing operation. Instead of paying the contempt judgment, Rensin filed for bankruptcy and asked the court to discharge the judgment.
A Tennessee federal court granted a temporary restraining order to stop two Tennessee pharmacies and their owners as well as three pharmacists from alleged illegal dispensing of opioids that caused at least two deaths and several overdoses.
Oakley Pharmacy Inc., doing business as Dale Hollow Pharmacy (Dale Hollow), Xpress Pharmacy of Clay County (Xpress), their owner Thomas Weir and three pharmacists violated the Controlled Substances Act and False Claims Act by illegally dispensing and billing Medicare for prescriptions.
A Mississippi jury has awarded a Byram woman $2 million in her lawsuit accusing a Jackson attorney of causing a July 31, 2017 accident. Post to Facebook Jackson attorney must pay woman $2 million in 2017 crash, jury decides A Hinds County jury has awarded a Byram woman $2 million in her lawsuit accusing a Jackson attorney of causing a July 31, 2017 accident.
R.J. Reynolds was hit with a $13.5 million punitive verdict Thursday for its part in the throat cancer death of a Florida smoker. Bessent-Dixon v. R.J. Reynolds, 2015-CA-002554.
The verdict capped a three-day, punitives-only trial over the 1994 death of Tyrone Dixon, who had smoked Reynolds cigarettes for years. Last August, a previous jury found Reynolds responsible for nicotine addiction that led to Dixon’s fatal throat cancer.
The jury assigned 67-70 percent responsibility for the accident to Ride the Ducks Seattle and 30-33 percent responsibility to Ride the Ducks Seattle, while also clearing the city of Seattle and the state of Washington of all liability following a sprawling trial that began in early October of last year. Jury deliberations began on January 28.
The family of the victim of the country's first autonomous vehicle pedestrian fatality has filed a lawsuit against the City of Tempe, Arizona, where the accident occurred. The case against Uber already settled. But now, the family is seeking $10 million in damages from the city because the road median was not safe.
Massachusetts has agreed to pay $1 million, the maximum allowed by law, to a man who was jailed two weeks after his 16th birthday and spent nearly 38 years in prison for a murder in Roslindale that the state attorney general’s office concluded he did not commit.
A lawsuit recently filed in a federal court in New York claims that an investor was misled into investing $2 million dollars in the cryptocurrency MCash. The filing alleges that the plaintiff Lijun Sun transferred $2 million to New-York based investment group Blue Ocean Capital Group, Inc. to purchase MCash tokens. The plaintiff is seeking recission of his investment in addition to compensatory damages worth $6 million.
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