Settlement

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April 9, 2021
The sneaker giant filed suit after the release of 666 pairs of shoes, marketed by rapper Lil Nas X, prompted…
June 11, 2020
Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks and Comcast announced on Thursday a content carriage arrangement, ending a years-long $20 billion legal…
Adobe Stock
February 13, 2020
Portland man wins a racial discrimination settlement after he was unlawfully surveilled at work by police and arrested as a…
Sauntore Thomas theGrio.com
January 23, 2020
Detroit man recently wins a racial discrimination settlement and when he went to the bank, they refused to cash it…
Equifax thegrio.com
July 27, 2019
Many Americans may qualify for compensation as a result of a $700 million settlement Equifax reached with the U.S. Federal…
Chicago Police Department thegrio.com
February 2, 2019
The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $168,500 to two Black men- one who said police forced him to…
Taylor Dumpson thegrio.com
December 23, 2018
Black student targeted by online trolls hopes lawsuit and settlement send message to White supremacists
December 8, 2018
Al Sharpton's eldest child, Dominique Sharpton, scored a $95,000 settlement from the city of New York over a sprained ankle…
Megyn Kelly thegrio.com
December 5, 2018
Ousted NBC daytime host Megyn Kelly won't be hurting financially and may eventually find her way back to television
Police Shooting
October 9, 2018
The city will pay David Jones' surviving relatives a major sum, but it does not change what was taken from…
Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder thegrio.com
July 14, 2018
A St. Louis jury awarded 22 women a historic judgment of $4.69 billion against Johnson & Johnson after suing the company, alleging that
Lil Wayne thegrio.com
June 10, 2018
A decade after his signature album, Tha Carter III, was released, Lil' Wayne and Cash Money Records have finally settled their…
Starbucks arrest in Philadelphia thegrio.com
May 2, 2018
Two black men arrested for sitting at a Philadelphia Starbucks without ordering anything settled with the city for a symbolic…
Jahmal Lightfoot thegrio.com
April 4, 2018
A former inmate at New York City's notorious Rikers Island Correctional Center has won a multi-million dollar settlement after enduring…
Ray Tensing thegrio.com
March 24, 2018
A white cop who shot and killed an unarmed Black man but was ultimately acquitted; not only got away with…
November 29, 2017
ST. ANTHONY, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota city that employed a police officer who fatally shot a black motorist during
November 21, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Rep. John Conyers settled a complaint in 2015 from a woman who alleged she was fired
November 1, 2017
The Utah nurse who was arrested after she bravely refused to let a police officer draw blood from an unconscious…
November 18, 2016
Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits over Trump University, his former school for…
May 7, 2016
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An attorney for the family of a black man fatally shot by Little Rock police