Phil Law Weblog

Two recent articles caught the mass attention in the USA. Both the articles were published in the same date.

The State of New Jersey has agreed to go for a settlement and to pay $750,000 to the family that accused the state of negligence charges. The settlement will go for the 20 year old Amanda Bennett, who brought the charges of sexual assault and murder of her siblings and her mother. Bennett’s attorney, Gregg [...]

The federal court has ordered the American Hard rock band Great White to pay $1 million to settle the lawsuit filed by the victims of a Rhode Island nightclub fire ignited by their concert’s fireworks in 2003. The court also pleaded the band manager to 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter in 2006.

The Chicago based singer and performer Ne-Yo is likely to receive nearly a million dollar as a part of the lawsuit settlement from the concert promoter company Rowe Entertainment Inc. The Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Malcolm Mackey ordered the company to pay Ne-Yo last week.

General Reinsurance Corp has reached to a confidential settlement agreement with the Bermuda-based reinsurer Arch Capital Group Ltd. This Stamford based unit of billionaire investor filed a lawsuit against the Arch of stealing secrets of their company.

The age old reputation of the Auto Cool company has come under severe scrutiny when a class action lawsuit was filed against the company. The lawsuit charged the company of false promise it made under an advertising campaign. The advt. promises that the Auto Cool would keep the interior of your car nice and cool, [...]

In what can be termed as win- win situation for the gay community, the University of Hawaii has decided to open its accommodations for committed same-sex couples. The University has decided to revise its policy as part of the settlement with a gay couples who were denied access to the University housing.

In a major settlement of its kind, the Australian company Aristocrat has decided to pay a huge sum of $144 million as settlement agreement last week. This is the largest shareholder settlement in Australia so far. The money is to be shared among the leading plaintifffs, IMF Australia and nearly 4000 affected Aristocrat [...]

In a rare incident of its kind the builders and developers of Stockton had raised their voices against the Stockton’s landmark General Plan. The environment body Sierra Club has filed a class action lawsuit that charges the plan of harming the environment and the economic standing of downtown. And California Attorney General Jerry Brown, similarly [...]

In an email, the Garden City Group announced its settlement in a class action lawsuit against PayPal filed in 2005. Both the parties decided to go for a settlement, in the lawsuit that charged the PayPal, for lack of proper communication and information about its consumer protection programs related to specific types of transactions.