Litigation

Wal-Mart
Faces Class Action over Return Policy

DirecTV and Best Buy
allegedly failed to inform customers that they must return their receivers upon cancellation.

Becker County
Faces Civil Rights Class Action by Inmates and their Attorneys

Inmate Possessions
Washington Department of Corrections agrees to pay current and former inmates $75 each for donating or destroying personal property.

Housing Inmates
City of Renton pays Yakima County $1.7 million settlement.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...