Man receives $4 million settlement in police confrontation case 
Published: May 24, 2012
Tags: California, police, warantless entry, wrongful arrest
A 61-year-old Vallejo, Calif. man was awarded more than $4 million in a settlement with the Vallejo Police Department over a five-year-old confrontation that left him with a broken neck, lawyers for both sides said.
Jury awards $1 million to police sergeant for retaliation
Published: May 17, 2012
Tags: California, police, police misconduct, retaliation
A jury awarded $1 million to a Los Angeles police sergeant who claimed he faced retaliation for reporting misconduct by a superior officer.
City settles same-sex harass suit for $150,000
Published: April 25, 2012
Tags: California, police, same-sex harassment, sexual harassment
The city of Concord, Calif. has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a civilian community service officer who said she was sexually harassed by the highest-ranking woman in the Police Department, attorneys in the case said.
Town agrees to $150,000 gender discrimination settlement
Published: April 19, 2012
Tags: Alabama, gender discrimination, police, sexual discrimination
An Alabama city has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit filed by a former police sergeant who claims she’s been excluded from the department’s “good-old-boy network.”
Settlement reached in woman’s drug sting death
Published: March 30, 2012
Tags: Florida, murder, police, sting
The city of Tallahassee, Fla. has agreed to settle with the parents of a woman who was murdered during a drug sting as a trial was about to begin in their lawsuit against the city. The settlement is for $2.6 million.
Widow awarded $2 million in wrongful death suit
Published: March 23, 2012
Tags: car crash, Georgia, police, wrongful death
A Gwinnett County, Ga. jury has awarded $2 million to the widow of a 52-year-old Snellville man who was killed when a county police officer in a speeding patrol car slammed into his vehicle.
City Council panel endorses $3.6 million wrongful imprisonment settlement
Published: March 13, 2012
Tags: civil rights, Illinois, police, police misconduct, wrongful imprisonment
A key Chicago City Council committee has signed off on a $3.6 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by a man who spent nearly 10 years in prison for an attack on a woman who later said she made a mistake when she identified him as her assailant.
$2.5 million settlement reached over cruiser crash that killed two teens
Published: February 16, 2012
Tags: automobile accident, Connecticut, police, wrongful death
The city of Milford, Conn. has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the estate of one of the two Orange teens killed in a 2009 crash involving former city police officer Jason Anderson, who was travelling 94 mph at the point of impact.
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.
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