Sentences with phrase «civil settlement against»

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Several civil personal injury / wrongful death suits are pending against Angel Valley, Ruda says, but they are on the verge of out - of - court settlement.

NYPD detectives have been warned to stay away from a private investigator who's allegedly part of a burgeoning «cottage industry» in which gang members score cash settlements from the city by filing bogus civil - rights suits against cops.

The New York Civil Liberties Union announced Tuesday morning the settlement of a federal lawsuit against the Buffalo City School District for what it charged was «the open and systematic discrimination of LGBTQ students at McKinley High School.»

Nearly a year after the federal Justice Department declined to bring civil rights charges against a white police officer who fatally shot a black college student in Pleasantville, Westchester County in 2010, the victim's family has agreed to a $ 6 million settlement, a lawyer for the family announced.

The settlement resolves a wrongful - death lawsuit filed against the county in 2014 and a federal civil rights suit filed last year against Nassau.

Steve Rattner is fighting back against the civil lawsuits filed against him by AG / Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo, which just so happen to come on the same day the SEC announced a $ 6.2 million settlement with the financier and GM, which Rattner helped save, debuted in the largest initial public offering in US history.

Five full months into the new fiscal year, Lembo is estimating that the state will be spending more money in the settlement of a civil lawsuit by the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition against former Gov. John G. Rowland, who laid off state employees more than a decade ago.

Each complaint asks the court to enter a permanent injunction barring the defendants from engaging in debt settlement in Illinois and order the defendants to pay restitution for aggrieved consumers, civil penalties of $ 50,000 for violating the Consumer Fraud Act, an additional $ 50,000 penalty for each violation committed with the intent to defraud, as well as a $ 10,000 penalty per violation committed against a person 65 years or older.

The judge also allowed revelation of the settlement amount in Constand's civil suit against Cosby after he agreed to the disclosure.

As part of the settlement, the city promised to «train its officers in recognizing when they are violating someone's civil rights, including taking action against anyone who flips them off,» the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.

An example of his exemplary pro bono service is the favorable monetary settlement Bob achieved on behalf of a prisoner in a Section 1983 federal lawsuit he prosecuted against the Cook County Department of Corrections involving civil rights violations for refusal to provide medical treatment.

Andy McGregor, banking litigation partner at RPC, says: «The banks will have been negotiating with the regulator for months trying to come to a settlement to reduce the size of their fine, but also trying to limit the extent to which the FCA's final penalty notice includes any admissions or evidence that could be used against them in a potential civil claim in the future.

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We achieved a $ 1 million settlement on behalf of South Middlesex Opportunity Council, an anti-poverty agency, in its landmark civil rights case against the Town of Framingham and Town officials to secure fair - housing rights for persons with disabilities.

The case famous for helping crack open some of the secrets of the asbestos litigation business has reached a settlement, which will apparently include a settlement (probably without admission of wrongdoing) of civil RICO claims against several law firms.

In January 2014, the officers brought their own civil claims against the Commissioner challenging the decision to settle the claim and the terms on which the settlement was reached.

courts, and until the time of James I, it was punished through the instrumentality of those tribunals not merely because ecclesiastical rights had been violated, but because upon the separation of the ecclesiastical courts from the civil the ecclesiastical were supposed to be the most appropriate for the trial of matrimonial causes and offences against the rights of marriage, just as they were for testamentary causes and the settlement of the estates of deceased persons.