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The family of a Black man who was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, announced Friday it has settled a lawsuit against the city for $4.5 million, NBC reports. Alton Sterling was 37 when he was fatally shot by an officer in 2016. His family filed the suit the next year. Lawyers for Sterling’s relatives said that the settlement…

A federal appeals court has upheld a $25 million award against agribusiness giant Monsanto in a lawsuit that alleged a California man developed cancer from exposure to its Roundup weed killer

A photojournalist won a settlement in his lawsuit against D.C. police, who he says violated his civil rights by arresting him as he covered a Black Lives Matter protest in August.

A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging without the permission of its users

Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet giant discriminated against female engineers and Asians in California and Washington state.

Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown and the Milwaukee city attorney have agreed to a revised $750,000 settlement of a lawsuit Brown filed after getting taken to the ground, shocked with a Taser and arrested during an encounter with police in 2018

The parents of a University of Utah track athlete who was killed by her ex-boyfriend on campus two years ago have reached a $13.5 million settlement with the university.

A New Hampshire man who suffered serious spinal injuries when a stage diver landed on his head during a concert in New Jersey has reached a $2 million settlement with the show’s organizer. Jason Kooken, 46, of Exeter, was injured at an April 2017 punk music festival staged at Convention Hall in Asbury Park. His lawsuit claimed that security working…

A judge ruled the agency was dishonest and acted in bad faith with a contractor it hired to set up a now-trashed toll-by-plate system — one that never worked properly. After two trials and two appeals, the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority finally surrendered — at a total cost of around $84 million.

It’s the biggest boondoggle in the history of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, and the costliest.

IPhone owners could get $25 from Apple after the company agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle claims over intentionally slowing down older phones to preserve older batteries.

The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are being sentenced in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say helped fuel the national opioid epidemic. Starting Monday, seven people who worked for Insys Therapeutics will appear in Boston federal court for their sentencing. The case against company founder John Kapoor and his associates was considered the first to hold...

McDonald’s has agreed to a $26 million settlement of a long-running class-action lawsuit over wages and work conditions at corporate-run locations in California, the parties said Monday.

The Equifax data breach of 2017 exposed the information of over 147,000,000 people — and if you were one of those people, you can now file a claim for reimbursement.

The settlement between Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and 25-year-old Dontrell Stephens would cover the $22.4 million a federal jury awarded Stephens in 2016, plus interest.

Surveillance video shows U.S. Customs and Border officials watching a Tijuana teenager ingest liquid methamphetamine moments before the chemical led to the teen’s death.

A teenager died at the busiest border crossing in the world after drinking an amber-colored liquid in front of federal agents. NBC 7’s Elena Gomez reports.

NBC 7’s Alex Presha shares surveillance photos released in an investigation questioning the tactics of Border Patrol agents in an incident from 2013.

The settlement comes three years after the death of Cruz Marcelino Velazquez Acevedo, 16, of Tijuana.

City Council has approved a $5 million settlement in the death of a teenager who was shot by a police officer 16 times last October.