Cracker Barrel settles bias suits for $8.7m
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NASHVILLE &#151; Cracker Barrel has agreed to an $8.7 million settlement to resolve lawsuits accusing the restaurant chain of mistreating and segregating black customers and discriminating against black employees, the company said yesterday.
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The insurance company has agreed to pay about $80 million to settle investigations into insurance sales that were used by companies to manipulate their earnings.
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International Business Machines Corp. said yesterday that it agreed to settle most of the issues in a lawsuit over changes in its pension plans on terms that allow the company to continue to appeal a key question while capping its liability at &#36;1.7 billion.
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McDonald's agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle two lawsuits accusing it of misleading consumers about the levels of trans fat in its food.
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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH) is close to settling a class action lawsuit for $220 million stemming from allegations that it colluded with other brokerages to mislead Enron Corp.
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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.
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Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., which has restaurants in 41 states, said it will pay $8.7 million to settle all discrimination lawsuits brought or supported by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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A federal judge agreed with a Tampa executive's claim that the antidepressant Paxil prompted him to embezzle $1.8 million from a former employer.
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A state judge has ordered the Boston law firm of Rubin and Rudman to pay $7.2 million plus as much as $2.1 million more in attorneys fees to settle charges that it negligently misrepresented the status of legal proceedings against its client, West Lynn Creamery, during negotiations to sell the dairy in 1998.
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Microsoft, Yahoo and Google agreed to pay a combined $31.5 million to settle federal civil allegations that they had accepted ads for illegal gambling.
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The Robertson Stevens Investments firm agreed to pay $30 million to settled allegations it allowed &quot;excessive&quot; market timing in its mutual funds, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday.
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International Business Machines Corp. said yesterday it will pay at least $300 million to settle part of a lawsuit that claimed the firm's pension plan discriminated against older workers.
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BP Plc and subsidiaries have agreed to pay $373 million in fines and restitution for environmental violations and fraud charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Cracker Barrel has agreed to an $8.7 million settlement to resolve all lawsuits brought or supported by the NAACP that accused the restaurant chain of segregating blacks in the smoking section and denying them service.
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The data aggregator said that it has reached a deal to settle a class-action suit filed by shareholders over the massive data breach the company disclosed in early 2005.
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Target Corp. has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging it failed to stamp prices on merchandise, the fourth in a string of agreements over the past two years costing major retailers more than $8 million in fees and millions more in compliance measures.
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Lehman Brothers has agreed to pay $222.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit contending that it and other brokerage firms and banks helped Enron mislead investors.