Illinois Facebook users will be receiving roughly $350 from the landmark privacy case against the social media giant.
Target OKs $10M Settlement over Massive Data Breach
Target has agreed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by victims of the company’s 2013 data breach – a massive hack that exposed up to 70 million people. According to CBS News, the settlement has been…
BofA Settlement Reaches $9.5 Billion
Bank of America has settled yet another expensive mortgage case. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which represents Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, brought mortgage-backed securities allegations against the second largest bank in America. Now Bank of America will have…
Dana Snay’s Facebook Post Costs Father $80k
A Florida teen may have just cost her dad a major cash flow opportunity after breaching a legal confidentiality agreement. According to the Miami Herald, Patrick Snay, 69, was the headmaster at Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami, Fla., for a…
Starbucks Kraft Lawsuit Settles: Coffee Chain to Pay $2.76 Billion
After a grueling three-year legal entanglement, the Starbucks-Kraft lawsuit has finally come to an end. Earlier today, an arbitrator determined that Starbucks will pay a total of approximately $2.76 billion as a monetary settlement to diffuse their legal dispute with…
Penn State to Pay $59.7 Million in Abuse Settlement
Nearly two years after news of the Penn State child molestation scandal broke, the university has agreed to pay a settlement of almost $60 million to 26 victims that were sexually assaulted by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Thirty…
Casey Anthony Reaches Settlement with Texas Group EquuSearch
Casey Anthony, the Florida mother involved in the infamous 2011 acquittal for the 2008 murder of her 2-year-old daughter, has reached a settlement agreement with EquuSearch (TES). The Texas-based company specializes in search and rescue operations in an effort to…
Casey Anthony Reaches Settlement
Casey Anthony has finally reached a settlement with one of the search groups, Texas EquuSearch, who scoured Central Florida on a wild goose chase for her 2-year-old daughter in 2008. The organization claims that they spent over $100,000 while searching…
JPMorgan Chase Admits Fault, Agrees to Pay $920M
While monumental corporate cases tend to drag on for years, this particular case involving JPMorgan Chase & Co. won’t be one of them. The United States’ largest bank has been ordered to pay an astronomical fine in the staggering amount…
Man Pays in Quarters: 600,000 Coins for Settlement
An Illinois man chose to protest an appellate court’s decision in his own way Wednesday. Dr. Roger Herrin, who lost his son in a car accident in 2001, had to pay back money awarded to him by a judge, so…