March 31, 2022
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered the consent decree between Activision Blizzard Inc. and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which includes $18 million in monetary and injunctive relief. By signing the three-year consent decree, Judge …
March 21, 2022
The city of Poulsbo, Washington, and its police department will pay $2 million to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by the family of Stonechild Chiefstick, according to attorneys. Police shot Chiefstick at a park during the city’s crowded 2019 Independence …
March 21, 2022
A committee representing several Catholic entities in the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy has reached a settlement with the BSA and is withdrawing its objections to its proposed reorganization plan, attorneys told a judge Friday. The announcement came on the …
March 14, 2022
King County has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a man who killed himself in a Seattle, Washington, jail after they filed a lawsuit alleging jail officials knew or should have known the man was in crisis but …
March 4, 2022
Las Vegas police have agreed to a $300,000 settlement with the estate of a California man who said he was illegally questioned by officers during a traffic stop of a van carrying members of a motorcycle club. James Iiams, a …
March 1, 2022
Illinois is expected to receive $760 million as part of a settlement with pharmaceutical distributors sued for their role in the opioid crisis, the state attorney general announced Feb. 25. Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office said the state’s share of …
February 28, 2022
One of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. is suing four insurance companies over claims that they haven’t fulfilled contracts to provide liability coverage for sexual abuse complaints. The Archdiocese of Santa Fe filed the lawsuit this week …
February 25, 2022
Washington state will pay $3.75 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of a man who died at Monroe Correctional Complex after his cancer went untreated despite repeated pleas. Kenny Williams, 63, died in June 2019 of …
February 25, 2022
The three largest U.S. drug distributors and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson have agreed to finalize a proposed $26 billion settlement resolving claims by states and local governments that they helped fuel the U.S. opioid epidemic. Distributors McKesson Corp., AmerisourceBergen Corp., …
February 22, 2022
U.S. Soccer has reached a $24 million agreement with the women’s national team to settle allegations that females were paid less than their male counterparts. The deal, announced Tuesday in a joint statement, would resolve one of the biggest legal …