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Free Speech Lawsuit Settled for $75,000
The First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech to all people, even if you don't agree with what they're saying. The town of South Hadley in Massachusetts learned that...
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Theater Company Settles Identity Theft Suit with… Popcorn?
Some quirky news out of Kansas City today. The Kansas City Business Journal blog reports that Dickinson Theatres Inc. has settled a suit with the promise to pay $1.5 million...
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Latest Settlement in Phone Hacking Case Announced
Charlotte Church received $951,000 dollars and an apology from the former newspaper News of the World in the latest of civil settlements to come from the widespread phone hacking scandal, USA...
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Legal News to Watch
Check out the Wall Street Journal for a list of legal news to watch this week. Of note to us here at the Settlements blog is the news that the...
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Teva Settles More Than $250 Million in Hepatitis Outbreak Cases
The pharmaceutical company Teva has set aside $285 million to settle lawsuits related to their anesthetic Propofol and an outbreak of Hepatitis C in Nevada. As reported by Bloomberg, litigants alleged that...