December 10, 2021
Pharmaceutical company Allergan Finance LLC will pay $200 million to New York state and two of its counties as part of an agreement that removes it from an ongoing state lawsuit over the opioid crisis, state Attorney General Letitia James …
December 8, 2021
The town of Wolcott, Connecticut, said Monday it has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed after it failed to allow a group home for mentally disabled adults to open in a residential neighborhood. The U.S. Justice Department said the …
December 2, 2021
Seattle, Washington will pay $3.5 million to settle a wrongful-death civil lawsuit filed on behalf of the children of a pregnant Black woman who was fatally shot by two white Seattle police officers in 2017. Karen Koehler, a Seattle attorney …
December 1, 2021
Virginia’s largest school district has reached a settlement with parents and advocacy groups over the treatment of students with disabilities. The Washington Post reported that the settlement effectively ends more than two years of litigation against the Fairfax County Public …
November 23, 2021
A former Massachusetts middle school teacher accused of inappropriately touching a student is scheduled to go on trial Monday. Jeffrey Knight, a former Cohasset Middle School teacher, faces multiple indecent assault and battery on a child charges in Quincy District …
November 22, 2021
Delivery company DoorDash Inc. is paying more than $5 million to settle an investigation by San Francisco into alleged labor law violations, with the bulk of the money going to delivery workers, the city attorney said on Monday. DoorDash will …
November 22, 2021
The Denver, Colorado suburb of Aurora has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the parents of Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after suburban Denver police stopped him on the street and put him …
November 19, 2021
Phoenix, Arizona officials agreed to pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit over the January 2017 death of a Black man during an arrest attempt in which he cried out that he couldn’t breathe as officers held him down. The …
November 19, 2021
The child of a Black man who was fatally shot by Southern California police in 2018 – and whose death spurred lawmakers to enact a state law that decertifies officers who act criminally or with bias – has settled a …
November 18, 2021
A federal jury has awarded $2 million to a high-ranking Boston police detective who said in a lawsuit against the department and her former supervisor that she was the victim of gender discrimination. The jury Monday after a four-week trial …