Oil refineries paid $21.6 million to settle claims that they had knowingly kept prices high despite a decrease in the fuel content of their gasoline. In warm summer months, the volume of a fluid expands while keeping the same amount of fuel, essentially creating a gallon of gasoline without as much gasoline in it.
A proposed settlement between Facebook and a class of litigants has the social networking company paying $10 million to charity. The issue at hand was whether Facebook violated California law by using its users' names and profile pictures to advertise products.
While you were gawking at the new kind-of-better-in-some-ways-I-guess Macbook Pro at this week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple's law team was quietly paying out a settlement to a Australian government...