January 3, 2010
$5.2 MILLION VERDICT IN JAIL INJURY CASE

• A US District Court jury determined... that there is a "preponderance of evidence" that two Garland County Detention Center officials... were "deliberately indifferent" to the medical needs of Iraqi war veteran Steve McFarland while McFarland was incarcerated on February 13, 2007.
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September 19, 2009
$3 MILLION VERDICT FOR LITTLE ROCK PHILANTHROPIST

• A mixed-bag verdict from a Pulaski County jury Friday night favored Jennings Osborne with a $3 million judgment, but also cleared Warren Stephens’ investment firms from the Little Rock entrepreneur’s accusations of wrongdoing.
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March 12, 2009
CHIP WELCH ONE OF NINE NOMINATED
FOR THREE FEDERAL JUDGE POSTS

• U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor today sent letters to President Barack Obama recommending nine individuals for Arkansas’s three federal district court vacancies.
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March 7, 2009
BREACH-OF-CONTRACT CASE OVER LOAN-DEFAULT
FUNDS NETS $1.7 MILLION AWARD

• A breach-of-contract case being tried this week in federal court in Little Rock resulted in a $1.7 million jury verdict late Friday afternoon against Kennedy Funding Inc. of New Jersey.
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February 26, 2009
JUDGE AGREES TO WAL-MART'S OFFER TO DRIVERS

• A federal judge in Little Rock gave his preliminary approval Wednesday (February 25, 2009) to a joint plan to settle a national class-action lawsuit filed in 2004 by black truck drivers against Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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February 21, 2009
WAL-MART TO SETTLE SUIT BY BLACK TRUCK
DRIVERS WITH $17.5 MILLION DEAL

• Wal-Mart has agreed to change its recruitment and hiring methods for over-the-road truck drivers, and pay $17.5 million to thousands of blacks who say they were denied the jobs because of their race, resolving a nationwide class-action lawsuit that was set for trial next month.
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May 16, 2006
JAIL'S NEGLECT KILLED HUSBAND, WIDOW SAYS

• A Sherwood man died last year after his arrest on a drunken driving charge because medical staff at the Pulaski County Jail failed to give him his seizure medication, his widow alleges in a federal lawsuit.
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February 16, 2006
2.55 MILLION DOLLAR VERDICT

• A Pulaski County Circuit Court jury awarded a Little Rock man over $2.55 million dollars in allegedly unpaid salary and commissions against Aon Risk Services of Arkansas, Inc. and Aon Risk Services of Illinois, Inc.
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May 4, 2005
Decertified Officer Suspended in Wake of 2 Civil Rights Suits

• The city of Eudora has agreed to take a decertified police officer off the streets as a result of two federal lawsuits that accused him of needlessly attacking four people with mace on two separate occasions.
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May 3, 2005
Deployed Reservist to Keep His Job

• An Army reservist scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan on Wednesday will retain his position as dean of students at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts during his tour of duty, under the terms of a settlement finalized Monday in federal court.
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April 21, 2005
Reservist Sues School, Claims Dismissal Illegal

• The dean of students at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts in Hot Springs alleged Wednesday in a federal lawsuit that he is being illegally fired because he is a U.S. Army reservist and soon will be deployed overseas.
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March 5, 2005
Nursing Home Litigation: Patient Died at Hands of Pathfinder

• The ex-husband of a Benton nursing home resident who died after being run over by a bus filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday against the state run nursing home and the vocational program charged with her care.
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