The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reached a $1.9 million settlement agreement this month with 13 female inmates who claim they were subjected to 'war zone' level violence during a use of force incident in 2024.
REMAX entered into the Settlement Agreement after considering the risks and costs of continuing the litigation, the SEC filing states. Of the $8.5 million, $1.5 million will be paid into the settlement fund after the agreement receives preliminary approval with the remaining $7.0 million being paid after the settlement gains final approval.
Flynn claimed in his 2023 lawsuit that the FBI and federal prosecutors orchestrated a political witch hunt against him during its investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016.
Brown reached an agreement with the Trump administration last summer to restore millions of dollars in federal research funding and to end federal investigations into the institution. In exchange, the university agreed to pay $50 million to organizations in Rhode Island focused on workforce training over the next 10 years. Several other universities reached similar deals with the administration to restore federal funding, though the details of what the schools would pay vary greatly.
The sexual assault lawsuit filed against eXp Realty by Anya Roberts now has one fewer defendant. Earlier this month, Roberts notified the court that she had reached a settlement with defendant Brent Gove. According to the filing, the settlement terms are confidential, but it notes that the settlement fully and finally resolves all of the plaintiff's claims against him in the lawsuit. Gove is the only defendant the settlement covers.
The Los Angeles Angels agreed Friday to a last-minute settlement with the family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs after jurors, deliberating for more than two days, sent queries that suggested the verdict might go in the family's favor. The amount and terms of the settlement-- ending a yearslong battle over culpability in Skaggs' death --were not immediately disclosed. The Skaggs family had been seeking $118 million in potential lost earnings plus added damages.
Owners of stolen Kia and Hyundai vehicles may be entitled to money after the vehicle manufacturers failed to install common anti-theft technology, according to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. As part of a settlement with multiple state attorneys general, including Bonta, the makers of Kia and Hyundai vehicles will pay a settlement of about $9 million. In 2022 and 2023, a dramatic rise in stolen Hyundai and Kia vehicles were reported in the U.S., thanks in part to viral TikTok trends and easily bypassed security.
Illusory Systems, which trades as Nomad, allegedly misled users about the security of its cryptocurrency bridge, which was compromised in 2022 in an attack that led to $186 million worth of funds being stolen. The FTC alleged that Nomad pushed an update in June 2022 containing "inadequately tested code" that, in turn, introduced a "significant vulnerability" that was exploited around a month later.
We voluntarily entered into these discussions because the College takes seriously its obligation to evaluate complaints about discrimination and to see if there are additional steps we can take to strengthen a welcoming and supportive learning environment for our students and everyone at Pomona, Pomona College President Gabrielle Starr in a statement. During negotiations, the college pushed for the agreement to protect free speech, including peaceful protest and to protect all students, including Jewish and Israeli students, from discrimination and harassment, Starr wrote.
The San Francisco City Attorney's Office secured a roughly $3 million settlement on Friday with online tobacco retailers accused of breaking the city's 2017 flavored tobacco ban. According to the SF Standard, the nicotine companies were accused of going around the ban by selling their flavored products online. In a statement, City Attorney David Chiu said the online retailers - Rogue Holdings, Swisher International, and Northerner Scandinavia - "are not above our San Francisco laws and cannot ship banned products into our city."
If you used the ParkMobile app to pay for parking at a meter several years ago, you might be getting a payment as a result of a data breach. Unfortunately, it's probably not an amount you'd expect for the inconvenience of having your data exposed. And while it's a comically low amount, don't spend it all in one place, because, well.... You're literally not allowed to.
The county did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement. "There was no admission of liability," he said. Although the settlement offers some relief, he noted it cannot account for the "immeasurable loss" Porter and her family endured. "We can never restore what Ms. Porter really lost, but at least we can try to prevent it from happening somewhere else," Almadani said. "Putting this to bed is going to help with the healing process itself."
The single-digit-speed collision two years ago required Sharma, a Concord resident, to undergo reconstructive knee surgery that sidelined her from work for 10 months, according to court records, and she's still healing after the accident left her unable to walk or lift the weight of a toddler injuries that ultimately forced the preschool to terminate her job. In addition to what her lawyers estimate is more than $200,000 in past and future medical bills, Sharma's also facing nearly a half-million dollars in lost wages.
The decision will allow us to focus on developing safe AI systems that help people and organizations extend their capabilities, advance scientific discovery, and solve complex problems. As we've consistently maintained, the court's landmark June ruling that AI training constitutes transformative fair use remains intact. This settlement simply resolves narrow claims about how certain materials were obtained,
Tesla has avoided another jury trial over a deadly crash involving the electric carmaker's Autopilot driver-assist system. Elon Musk's company reached a deal this week to settle a lawsuit with the family of a 15-year-old boy who was killed in a 2019 California highway collision after a Tesla Model 3 slammed into the teen's father's pickup truck. Notice of settlement documents were filed in Alameda County Superior Court on Monday,
On Jan. 20, 2020, Delta Flight 89 took off from Los Angeles International Airport en route to Shanghai with 149 passengers for what is typically a 13-hour nonstop flight. That voyage, however, lasted only 25 minutes due to a plane malfunction, forcing the pilot to turn the aircraft around over the Santa Monica Bay and head back toward the airport.
Newsmax Media has agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit over false claims that the voting machine company rigged the 2020 election against U.S. President Donald Trump.