Utah Reached $360M Settlement Over Gold King Mine Spill
Category: Civil Plaintiff | August 7, 2020
Utah will reap million of dollars’ worth of environmental cleanup and monitoring benefits in a “landmark” agreement arising from the disastrous 2015 Gold King mine spill. On Wednesday, officials announced a deal to settle Utah’s claims against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency associated … Continue reading
Zimbabwe Will Pay $3.5B To White Farmers for Land Settlement
Category: Civil Plaintiff | August 5, 2020
Zimbabwe has agreed to a hefty billion-dollar settlement to White farmers who had their land expropriated by the government to resettle Black families. Over two decades ago, Robert Mugabe’s administration evicted 4,500 White farmers to redistribute over 300,000 Black families as a way … Continue reading
BP Settlement Checks are Going to More than 1M Oregonians
Category: Civil Plaintiff | August 3, 2020
Attorney General and Oregon Consumer Justice let recipients know checks are legitimate SALEM — You may have already received it. Over the next few weeks, more than 1 million Oregonians who used a debit card to buy gas at Oregon … Continue reading
The 2020 United States Civil Rights Movement
Category: Civil Rights | July 31, 2020
The Start Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the civil rights movement fought for social justice, mainly for black Americans to achieve equal lawful civil liberties in the USA. The Civil War officially stopped slavery, however not discrimination dealing with the … Continue reading
Wells Fargo Gets the Go Ahead for $79M Settlement
Category: Civil Plaintiff | July 31, 2020
After three years of litigation, Wells Fargo’s $79 million class action settlement to resolve allegations that it illegally made thousands of former employees forfeit deferred compensation is final. Judge Joseph F. Anderson’s order approving the settlement awarded $19.75 million, or … Continue reading
$40M Settlement Announced By SEC in Florida Teacher Pension Case
Category: Civil Plaintiff | July 29, 2020
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a $40 million civil settlement with a financial adviser it says violated the rules in promoting retirement investments to Florida teachers. The SEC order says the company, Valic Financial Advisors, “failed to disclose to certain Florida teachers … Continue reading
The History of American Police Brutality
Category: Civil Rights | July 27, 2020
The Start of Policing TIME In the U.S., the evolution of police followed England. Early colony patrolling functioned in two formal and communal styles, known as the “Watch” system, or private-for-profit policing, named “The Big Stick.” The watch system involved … Continue reading
Judge Approves SeaWorld’s $65M Settlement Over ‘Blackfish’
Category: Civil Plaintiff | July 27, 2020
Six years after SeaWorld Entertainment was sued for allegedly deceiving stockholders about the damaging impact the “Blackfish” documentary was having on theme park attendance, a federal judge on Friday approved a $65-million payout to aggrieved investors. Although a settlement of … Continue reading
Washington Post Settles $250M Lawsuit with Kentucky Teen
Category: Civil Plaintiff | July 27, 2020
A Kentucky teen and The Washington Post have settled a lawsuit over the newspaper’s coverage of his encounter with a Native American man at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington last year. The teen’s lawyers said on social media Friday that … Continue reading
Facebook Agrees to $650M Facial Recognition Settlement
Category: Civil Plaintiff | July 24, 2020
Facebook has agreed to pay a total of $650 million in a landmark class action lawsuit over the company’s unauthorized use of facial recognition, a new court filing shows. The filing represents a revised settlement that increases the total payout by $100 million and … Continue reading