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Lawsuit Between UC Berkeley and Young America’s Foundation (YAF) Reaches Settlement

- December 9, 2018

Earlier this month, UC Berkeley announced that it agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against the school involving allegations of discrimination “against high-profile speakers invited by conservative student groups.” The suit was filed back in April 2017 by Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and Berkeley College Republicans (BCR) and alleged that the university violated their First Amendment rights, among others. According to the settlement agreement, the university will pay “a one-time $70,000 payment to cover the plaintiff’s attorney costs, as well as a revision of the campus Major Events Policy.”

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Victims and surviving relatives have claimed that the duck boat operators should have been aware that inclement weather was predicted for the same day. I

Ripley Entertainment Settles First Duck Boat Lawsuit

- December 9, 2018

Ripley Entertainment, the owner of a Branson, MO duck boat that sank in July, has settled its first lawsuit with the remaining family of a couple who died aboard Stretch Duck 07. The Kansas City Star reports that William Bright, 65, and Janice Bright, 63—both from Higginsville, MO—were aboard Stretch Duck 07 on July 19.

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County Rules in Favor of Wrongfully Convicted Man

- November 20, 2018

Earlier this week, Cook County commissioners voted in favor of a homeless man who was wrongly imprisoned in connection to false rape allegations. As a result, the commissioners approved a $3.7 million settlement in the lawsuit filed by the man, Carl Chatman, in response to his ordeal. According to Chatman’s suit, he was “wrongly imprisoned after a clerk at the Daley Center fabricated a rape claim as part of a scheme to sue the county.”

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Kansas States Officials Approve $75,000 Settlement Over DCF Lawsuit

- November 20, 2018

Earlier this week, the governor of Kansas and other top legislative leaders agreed to settle a child-death lawsuit for $75,000. The suit was originally filed in Sedgwick County District Court against the “Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF) after the agency failed to intervene based on allegations an 18-month-old girl was physically abused and living in a drug house.”

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Maddin Hauser Secures Multi-million Dollar Property Settlement Against Pontiac

- November 19, 2018

After more than six years of contentious litigation, the City of Pontiac and the owners of the Ottawa Towers office building have settled their long-running dispute. Southfield, Michigan law firm, Maddin Hauser Roth & Heller, PC, which won multiple favorable interim-rulings against the City of Pontiac, has won a settlement in favor of the owners of the Ottawa Towers office buildings for more than $7 million.

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