Settlement

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May 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Members of the black farming community and their advocates have responded to claims made in a recent…
April 19, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles judge has approved a divorce settlement between Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries...
April 12, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kim Kardashian has left a Los Angeles courthouse without reaching a settlement in her divorce case…
March 18, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The NFL has agreed to pay $42 million as part of a settlement with a group of…
February 27, 2013
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a settlement divvying up the multimillion-dollar estate of…
January 29, 2013
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge on Tuesday approved an agreement for BP PLC to plead guilty to manslaughter…
December 3, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - One of the biggest awards ever issued for racial harassment in high school — $1 million…
November 30, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Attorneys for Halle Berry and her ex-boyfriend have settled court issues that arose after a Thanksgiving…
November 19, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Sheldon Stephens now says he was paid $125,000 to take back his story in a settlement agreement…
November 16, 2012
(AP) - BP's $4.5 billion settlement of federal criminal charges in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico…
November 15, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP said Thursday that it will pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government…
September 27, 2012
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge gave his final approval Thursday to a $42.6 million class-action settlement between companies…
September 25, 2012
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao have reached a confidential settlement in their federal defamation case…
September 20, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Sean 'Diddy' Combs has closed one infamous chapter in his career. This week he financially settled claims…
August 16, 2012
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida A&M University wants to try to settle a family's lawsuit against the school over the…
July 13, 2012
(AP) - Wells Fargo's net income and revenue rose in the second quarter, driven by a pickup in lending and…
July 12, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wells Fargo Bank will pay at least $175 million to settle accusations that it discriminated against African-American…
July 3, 2012
The New York Post reports in 2009 Crystal Wright-Johnson was attempting to board the bus in Queens when the doors…
June 21, 2012
RALEIGH, North Carolina (AP) - Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom it deemed 'feeble-minded'…
May 7, 2012
In the 1980s, black farmers began their legal battle against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Litigation that began nearly 30…