Rifle Makers Settle in D.C. Sniper Case
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The manufacturer and dealer of the rifle used in the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings agreed Wednesday to pay &#36;2.5 million in a settlement with victims and victims' families.
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By Blankinship, Steve  A proposed settlement announced by the U.S. Justice Department in October between the U.S.
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By Ken Dey, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 7--The day Micron Technology hosted President Bush at its Manassas,  Va. plant, a top competitor settled a price-fixing lawsuit that Micron is also  a defendant in.
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MIAMI - Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.    Five defendants from Miami-Dade County pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of firearms sales and exports to Venezuela, where prosecutors say the weapons were to be sold to left-wing Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups...
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The defense in the tax fraud trial of Wesley Snipes unexpectedly rested Monday.
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A U.S. Army sniper accused of killing an unarmed Iraqi civilian and planting evidence on his body was found guilty on all charges Sunday.
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D.C. leaders said yesterday they have reached a final agreement to spend $79 million on a plan to save financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital after lawyers for the city worked out eleventh-hour assurances that its investment would be protected.
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Defense attorneys for an Army sniper accused in the death of an unarmed Iraqi civilian insisted during closing arguments Sunday that the killing was an accident, but the prosecution called it a simple case of murder.
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New York City reached agreements with six out-of-state gun dealers, who agreed to let court officials monitor their operations.
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Senior Democrats have reached agreement with the National Rifle Association on what could be the first federal gun-control legislation since 1994, a measure to significantly strengthen the national system that checks the backgrounds of gun buyers.
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Drugmaker Wyeth  has reached a tentative framework with a group of plaintiffs' lawyers to settle nearly all remaining liability cases stemming from allegations that some of its diet drugs damaged heart valves, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the negotiations.
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A domestic dispute ended in the shooting deaths of three people early Tuesday and wounding of two others, including a sheriff's deputy, authorities said. Police were searching for a man who was believed to have several firearms.
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A U.S. appeals court on Friday struck down a 30-year-old Washington, D.C., law that bans handguns in homes, a precedent-setting ruling that dealt a setback to a city with one of America's highest crime rates.
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DuPont has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit in which West Virginia residents accused the company of having contaminated local water supplies with an important chemical used to make Teflon products.
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(InfoWorld) - Washington's attorney general has settled the first case prosecuted under the state's 2005 Computer Spyware Act. The settlement. announced Monday, is with antispyware vendor Secure Computer LLC. The White Plains, New York, software companyÂ was accused of marketing its product via deceptive spam and pop-up ads, which offered free spyware scans that always detected a problem with the computer that was scanned. The company and its president, Paul Burke, will pay $725,000 in legal fees and $200,000 in penalties, and will reimburse Washington state customers $75,000, said Paula Selis, senior council with the attorney general's office. "Given the scope of the defendants' practices and the amount of consumer harm out there, we feel this is a very fair settlement." More than 1,100 state residents purchased the company's Spyware Cleaner software since it went on the market in 2004, Selis said. Those customers will now be e-mailed by Secure Computer and offered a refund for the $49.95 product, under terms of the settlement. Secure Computer, which admits no wrongdoing in the matter, is also prohibited from usingÂ deceptive marketing techniquesÂ to promote its software, and the company must now review the advertising of its marketing affiliates to make sure they comply with the settlement. That seems like an unlikely possibility, however, because Spyware Cleaner was pulled from the market shortly after the lawsuits were filed in late January, and Secure Computer LLC is now out of business, according to the company's Web site. Representatives from Secure Computer could not be reached for comment. Secure Computer and four of its business partners were sued by Microsoft and the Washington attorney general in January, but charges against three of the men have already been settled. A fourth man, Manoj Kumar of Maharashtra, India, could not be located, the attorney general's office said. Â
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The company that made the Bushmaster  rifle used in the 2002 Washington-area sniper killing spree and  a gun shop agreed to pay $2.5 million in damages to the victims  in what lawyers said on Thursday was an unprecedented move by a  gunmaker.
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DuPont agreed to a settlement Thursday that could be worth more than $340 million to resolve a class action lawsuit alleging the chemical giant contaminated a West Virginia community's water supply with a key ingredient used in its Teflon products.