Chicago Settles Wrongful Arrest Lawsuit
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The city has agreed to pay &#36;2 million to settle the wrongful arrest lawsuit of one of two boys accused in the 1998 slaying of an 11-year-old girl.
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Several defendants being sued by relatives of the 100 people killed in a 2003 nightclub fire have tentatively agreed to a $13.5 million settlement.
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Several defendants being sued by relatives of the 100 people killed in a 2003 nightclub fire have tentatively agreed to a $13.5 million settlement, a lawyer for one family in the case told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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University of Maryland basketball player Nik Caner-Medley has reached a settlement with prosecutors on a disorderly conduct charge involving an altercation in the Old Port in July, lawyers said.
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Fannie Mae yesterday agreed to pay the government $7.5 million to settle a case in which the Justice Department alleged that the giant housing-finance company knowingly accepted proceeds of a mortgage scam.
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The state has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit with a convicted murderer who alleged that state prison staff raped and assaulted her.
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Media group Tribune Co has agreed to  pay $15 million in a settlement with federal prosecutors after  two of its newspapers, Newsday and Hoy, admitted to inflating  circulation numbers.
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CHICAGO The Pritzker family co-owned a suburban Chicago bank that failed three years ago. Now, it appears set to receive tens of (M) millions of dollars in a settlement involving the bank&#39;s collapse.
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Cingular, Priceline and Travelocity settled with New York state's attorney general over adware charges.
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A lawsuit in which UK mobile phones maker Sendo had accused Microsoft of stealing its technology and customers is settled.
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Chicago - The woman accused in the slaying of a pregnant woman and abduction of her infant, waived her rights to certain legal formalities on Thursday, paving the way for her to be transferred to the state where she allegedly committed the crimes
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The government yesterday settled its case against former Freddie Mac chairman and chief executive Leland C. Brendsel for a fraction of the more than $1 billion in damages and penalties it had been seeking for his alleged participation in accounting manipulations.
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ALBANY, NYâGlaxoSmithKline PLC agreed yesterday to release negative data on the safety and effectiveness of its drugs to settle a lawsuit by New York&#39;s attorney general that accused the pharmaceutical maker of misrepresenting data on prescribing its
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The agreement settles a California civil suit over Hewlett-PackardÂs pursuit of private phone records to trace a news leak.
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Fannie Mae agreed Wednesday to pay the government $7.5 million to settle a case in which the Justice Department alleged that the company knowingly accepted proceeds of a mortgage scam.
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By Dan Springer, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 22--A lawsuit filed on behalf of a woman left with permanent brain damage after she tried to hang herself in the Monroe County Jail in 2002 has been settled for $13.1 million, her attorney said Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Walt Disney Co. settled a case Monday in which securities regulators alleged the firm failed to disclose that it employed relatives of board members and failed to disclose certain perks to a director.