Police settle beating lawsuit for $292,500 
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: diabetes, drunk driving, Excessive Force, Nevada, police
A Nevada man and his wife are receiving $292,500 from Henderson police and the state of Nevada to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from a kicking and punching attack on the man during an October 2010 traffic stop.
City to settle gender discrimination suit
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: gender discrimination, New York, police, sexual harassment
The Syracuse Common Council has approved paying $375,000 to settle a federal gender-discrimination lawsuit filed in 2009 by a female officer of the Police Department.
Company pays $50,000 over teen’s amputated fingers
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: child labor, Pennsylvania
A northwestern Pennsylvania company has agreed to pay $50,000 to settle alleged child labor violations that resulted when an underage worker cut off his fingers about four years ago.
Firefighter wins lawsuit over firing
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: lost wages, Pennsylvania, suicide, wrongful termination
A jury says a former western Pennsylvania firefighter was wrongly dismissed following a 2006 suicide attempt.
Church found negligent in sexual abuse case
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: child sex abuse, clergy sex abuse, Connecticut
A jury has ordered the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn. to pay $1 million in damages to a former altar boy who was sexually abused by a priest decades ago.
Former employee settles wrongful discharge case
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: Montana, wrongful discharge
An attorney for the city of Bozeman, Mont. says the former executive assistant to the city manager has agreed to settle her wrongful discharge lawsuit for $20,000.
Inmates sue over execution protocol
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: Arizona, civil rights, death penalty
Three inmates on Arizona’s death row have sued the governor, the state corrections director and those who conduct executions, arguing that a new execution protocol violates their constitutional rights.
Lawsuit says deputies broke man’s neck
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: Excessive Force, police, quadriplegic, South Carolina
A federal trial has been set in a case brought by a man who says Beaufort County sheriff’s deputies broke his neck when they arrested him two years ago.
Wrongly convicted man files civil rights suit
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: California, murder, wrongful conviction, wrongful imprisonment
A man who served 18 years in prison for a San Francisco double murder he didn’t commit has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city.
Shooting victim’s family sues school officials
Published: February 13, 2012
Tags: Alabama, failure to protect, shooting, wrongful death
The family of a boy who was shot to death at a Madison County, Ala. middle school in 2010 is suing Madison school officials and others. They say the school officials failed to protect him from a problem student.
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