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The Latest BP Oil Spill Settlement
The big news this weekend was the announcement that BP has settled the set of civil suits by residents and businesses against the company. The settlement does not have a...
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Police Detective Wins Right to a Beard
A Las Vegas policeman has settled a lawsuit with the city for $40,000 and the right to wear a beard on the job. You read that correctly. Apparently, some police...
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Indie Record Label Group Wins $10 Million Infringement Settlement
Limewire, the P2P file sharing software, has agreed to yet another settlement in copyright infringement litigation, this time with the indie label representative group Merlin. The software company, which allowed...
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Verizon Settles Class Action “Cramming” Suit
In college I recall a time when a friend pranked another friend by secretly signing his cell phone up for one of those "joke a day" text message spam services....
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Injured? Should You Settle or Go to Trial?
Check out this excellent blog post about what "going to trial" in an injury lawsuit really means. Jerry H. Trachtman, an attorney out of Melbourne, Florida, writes a detailed rundown...