Officer wins worker’s comp dispute

January 25, 2010

Five years after being permanently disabled from a motorcycle wreck that happened on his way to work, a former Harris County constable’s sergeant has finally won his court battle seeking worker’s compensation benefits from the county.

 

Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Sgt. Eluid Hinojosa Jr., then 41, smashed into a concrete wall as, acting as an on-call Saturday morning supervisor, he traveled to back up a fellow officer. He spent four months in various hospitals and, after his personal insurance covered 20 percent of his expenses, he still faced more than $600,000 in unpaid medical bills.

 

Read Article: Chron

 

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DOT Settles Discrimination Lawsuit

A Department of Transportation engineer who said she was bypassed for promotion and wrongly accused of harassment has settled a federal discrimination lawsuit against the state agency.

Under the terms, the DOT paid Christine Aubrey $130,000 to cover her legal fees, promoted her to principal engineer and gave her $16,000 in back pay. She was bypassed for the job nearly three years ago, although she said she had been deemed qualified for it.

 

Read Article: Courant.Com 

 

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Hollywood writers’ age-discrimination case settled

A decade-old legal battle comes to an end as 17 major networks and production studios, along with seven talent agencies, agree to pay $70 million to thousands of writers.

 

A long and winding legal battle that raised uncomfortable questions about Hollywood’s treatment of middle-aged and older TV writers was settled Friday, a decade after a class-action lawsuit alleged they were the victims of widespread age discrimination.

 

Read Article:  Los Angeles Times

 

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Two police misconduct lawsuits settled

Attorneys for the city of New Orleans recently settled a pair of high-profile federal lawsuits alleging police misconduct.

One alleged brawl, involving city transit workers and off-duty officers, took place on Mardi Gras night at the Beach Corner bar in Mid-City. The other case centered on an incident in July 2006 inside a Central City bar.

On Friday, the city attorney’s office reached a settlement in federal court with the American Civil Liberties Union, which represents Steven Elloie, a bar manager who alleged he was beaten, twice shocked with a Taser stun gun and falsely arrested inside the Sportsman’s Corner bar.

 

Read Article: Nola.Com 

 

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UPDATE 2-U.S. seeks to undo Dean Foods-Foremost Farms deal

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dean Foods Co (DF.N) seeking to undo its April 2009 purchase of dairy processing plants from Foremost Farms USA because of competition concerns.

 

The Justice Department argued the deal eliminated “substantial competition” between the two companies in the sale of milk to grocery stores, schools, convenience stores and other retailers in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.

 

Read Article: Reuters

 

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