#civil-settlement

#civil-settlement

Giuffre wrote of the 2022 confidential settlement of her sexual abuse civil claim against the royal, widely rumoured to be $12m, that her lawyers were going to ask for the moon, and her team had agreed it had to be more than mere money. After casting doubt on my credibility for so long Prince Andrew's team had even gone so far as to try to hire internet trolls to hassle me the Duke of York owed me a meaningful apology as well, she wrote.

During an emotional press conference officials convened in 2023 to issue the apologies, Wu decried how a "systemic campaign" targeted Black men based on a "false, racist claim" in the case of Carol Stuart. The Stuart case, which was chronicled in a lengthy investigation by The Boston Globe before Wu's apologies, shone a light on the racial prejudices that shaped policing and media bias in Boston.

A historic East Bay company that generated the foul stench of sewage odor that polluted a town's air has settled a lawsuit with Contra Costa County prosecutors for approximately $500,000, authorities said Tuesday. C&H Sugar, whose plant has been a staple in the unincorporated city of Crockett since 1906, committed the odor violations in 2022 at a wastewater treatment plant it jointly owns at Dowrelio Drive, according to a statement from the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office.