California has agreed to designate at least $2 billion to help disadvantaged students who fell behind in their learning during the COVID-19 lockdowns, according to a recent legal settlement. In 2020, families in Los Angeles and Oakland sued the California Department of Education (CDE) while public school students were still learning remotely. Filed by nonprofit […]
WASHINGTON—The e-commerce giant eBay will pay $59 million in a settlement with the Justice Department over thousands of pill press machines sold on the platform, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The machines can be used to manufacture counterfeit pills that look just like prescription pills but instead can be laced with substances like fentanyl, a […]
OLYMPIA, Wash.—The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over its role in the opioid addiction crisis. “They knew what the harm was. They did it anyway,” Attorney General Bob Ferguson told reporters Wednesday. The attorney general’s […]
Todd and Julie Chrisley, former reality TV stars presently incarcerated for charges related to fraud and tax evasion, have been granted a $1 million settlement by the state of Georgia. The family’s legal team announced the victory on Tuesday. This substantial financial arrangement is a result of a lawsuit filed by the Chrisleys in 2019 […]
RENO, Nev.—A Nevada judge has approved a $100 million cash settlement to the parents of a British tourist who was among five killed—including his newlywed wife—when a helicopter crashed and burst into flames in the Grand Canyon in 2018. Under the settlement approved in Las Vegas on Friday, the family of Jonathan Udall, 31, will […]
Consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has agreed to pay $78 million to resolve claims by U.S. health insurers and benefit plans that it fueled an epidemic of opioid addiction through its work for drug companies including OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma. The settlement was disclosed in papers filed on Friday in federal court in San Francisco. […]
DALLAS—Southwest Airlines will pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million settlement to resolve a federal investigation into a debacle in December 2022 when the airline canceled thousands of flights and stranded more than 2 million travelers over the holidays. Most of the settlement will go toward compensating future passengers, which the […]
NEW YORK—New York City will pay $17.5 million to a man who spent 24 years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit, city officials said Thursday. The settlement in the case of George Bell, one of three men convicted for the 1996 killing of a Queens check-cashing store owner and an off-duty […]
Apple will pay a $25 million settlement for claims by the Department of Justice that the company illegally favored immigrant workers over U.S. citizens and green card holders for certain jobs, the agency said on Thursday. The DOJ said in a statement that Apple did not recruit U.S. citizens or permanent residents for jobs that […]
Multiple U.S. states have voiced their objections to JP Morgan Chase’s class-action settlement with Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, saying it could limit their ability to seek compensation for sexual abuse victims. The attorneys general of 16 states and Washington, D.C., wrote a letter, which was published on Oct. 23 in the Manhattan federal court. It states […]
3M has agreed to pay $6 billion as part of a settlement with individuals allegedly harmed by earplugs produced by its subsidiary Aearo Technologies, after military veterans and service members said the devices resulted in hearing loss. In an Aug. 29 statement, 3M said it would pay out the $6 billion—comprised of $5 billion in cash and […]
A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $9.1 million to the family of a girl who died by suicide after she was bullied at school, the family’s attorney said. The settlement comes after Diane and Seth Grossman sued Rockaway Township School District in 2018, claiming that, despite repeated complaints, Copeland Middle School administrators […]
Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. has reached a $10.3 billion settlement with several U.S. public drinking water systems to resolve allegations of contamination of “forever chemicals.” The company announced Thursday that the agreement “includes present value commitment of up to $10.3 billion payable over 13 years.” The $10.3 billion agreement would settle a case that had been […]
JPMorgan Chase has reached a settlement with women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein, the bank and the women said on June 12. The parties said in a joint statement that they’ve notified a federal court in New York that they’ve “reached an agreement in principle” to settle a lawsuit filed in 2022 […]
A Vermont soccer coach who was dismissed for speaking out against a biological male being in the girls’ locker room has reached a settlement with the school district. The coach and his daughter were both disciplined after allegedly “misgendering” a male student who identifies with the female gender. Travis Allen of the Orange Southwest School […]
Amazon has agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) $30.8 million to settle claims that it allowed employees and third-party contractors of its Ring video camera doorbell unit to surveil customers in their homes and illegally retained children’s voice recordings through its Alexa app. According to an FTC press release, Amazon’s Ring doorbell company was charged with compromising […]
SANTA FE, N.M.—A New Mexico judge has approved a $1.15 million settlement between a medic who worked on the “Rust” film set and one of several defendants she accused of negligence in the fatal 2021 shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal. Court records show the partial settlement between Cherlyn Schaefer and […]
U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen and senior government officials hold a news conference at 2:00 p.m. Et on April 25 to announce a settlement and charges in a significant national security case.
SANTA FE, N.M.—The judge hearing the wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and an array of producers and crew linked to a fatal film set shooting agreed Monday to seal from public view the terms of a proposed settlement agreement in the case that benefits the son of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The New […]
NEW YORK—Electronic cigarette-maker Juul Labs Inc. will pay $462 million to six states and the District of Columbia, marking the largest settlement the company has reached so far for its role in the youth vaping surge, the attorneys general in several states announced Wednesday. The agreement with New York, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, […]
