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Woman Who Filed Discrimination Lawsuit Against UPS Awarded $600,000
Wednesday February 20th 2013, 8:34 pm Filed under Discrimination lawsuit

A former Odessa UPS Employee has been awarded a large amount of money after filing a sexual discrimination lawsuit against UPS. Amber Ibarra was awarded $600,000 in a Midland Federal Courthouse Courtroom on Wednesday night. [News Source]

Family of 13-year-old killed in shootout files wrongful death lawsuit
Wednesday February 20th 2013, 8:25 pm Filed under Wrongful death lawsuit

The parents of a 13-year-old girl who was shot and killed in a Washington Wal-Mart after running away from a Utah youth home... [News Source]

Chevron, Transocean say Brazil drops criminal oil spill charges
Wednesday February 20th 2013, 7:54 pm Filed under Environmental lawsuit

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge dropped criminal charges against Chevron Corp, Transocean Ltd and 17 of their employees related to a November 2011 offshore oil spill, the companies said on Wednesday. The criminal case, and a civil suit seeking as much as 40 billion reais ($20.4 billion) in damages, have cast a chill over Brazil's oil industry. The criminal suit carried penalties of ... [News Source]

Wrongful death suit against Joyce Meyer dismissed
Wednesday February 20th 2013, 6:46 pm Filed under Wrongful death lawsuit

A judge has thrown out a wrongful death lawsuit against televangelist Joyce Meyer. [News Source]

Chevron, Transocean say Brazil drops criminal oil spill charges
Wednesday February 20th 2013, 6:26 pm Filed under Environmental lawsuit

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge dropped criminal charges against Chevron Corp , Transocean Ltd and 17 of their employees related to a November 2011 offshore oil spill, the companies said on Wednesday. The criminal case, and a civil suit seeking as much as 40 billion reais ($20.4 billion) in damages, have cast a chill over Brazil's oil industry. The criminal suit carried penalties of ... [News Source]

A Wrongful Death Lawsuit Has Been Reached In The Patricia Kimmi Case
Wednesday February 20th 2013, 6:04 pm Filed under Wrongful death lawsuit

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW)-- An agreement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in the death of a rural Horton woman. The children of Patricia Kimmi reached a settlement with their estranged father Eugene Kimmi in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against him. [News Source]

NCAA says lawsuit over Penn State concerns rules
Wednesday February 20th 2013, 5:54 pm Filed under Accident lawsuit

The head of the NCAA says the organization's need to enforce its own rules is part of the reason it sued over a new Pennsylvania law designed to keep the $60 million Penn State fine over the Jerry Sandusky scandal in the... [News Source]