Oklahoma says it won’t discuss a settlement with survivors who are seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and have appealed a Tulsa County judge’s dismissal of the case last month. The Oklahoma Supreme Court has agreed to consider the survivors’ appeal, and the state attorney general’s litigation division filed its response Monday. There are just… Continue reading Oklahoma declines to discuss a settlement of Tulsa Race Massacre survivors’ lawsuit
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Viet Dinh, Fox’s top lawyerm is exiting company months after $787.5M Dominion settlement
Fox Corporation’s top lawyer is leaving the company, the media giant announced in a news release Friday, nearly four months after it reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. Viet Dinh, Fox’s chief legal and policy officer, plans to step down from his role at the end of the year and become a… Continue reading Viet Dinh, Fox’s top lawyerm is exiting company months after $787.5M Dominion settlement
Supreme Court Blocks Purdue Pharma $6 Billion Opioid Settlement
The Supreme Court put OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement on hold Thursday in an order siding with the Biden administration’s request to reexamine provisions shielding the Sackler family from liability. The single-page order does not contain a breakdown of the nine justices’ votes. The billionaire Sackler family, which controlled the pharmaceutical giant since its… Continue reading Supreme Court Blocks Purdue Pharma $6 Billion Opioid Settlement
The British Museum reaches settlement with translator whose work was used without permission
A translator has reached a settlement and received an apology from the British Museum months after her work was used in a temporary exhibit without her permission or credit. Translations by Yilin Wang, a Chinese-to-English translator, writer and editor, of poetry by the Chinese revolutionary and poet Qiu Jin were used in the museum’s exhibit… Continue reading The British Museum reaches settlement with translator whose work was used without permission
Family of man who died in Georgia jail cell with bed bug infestation reaches settlement with county
ATLANTA — Georgia’s Fulton County has reached a settlement with the family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in the county jail’s psychiatric wing, the family’s lawyers said Thursday. Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, three months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Attorneys Ben Crump and Michael Harper,… Continue reading Family of man who died in Georgia jail cell with bed bug infestation reaches settlement with county