Legal settlements
FILE - Larry Nassar listens as Rachael Denhollander gives her victim impact statement, Feb. 2, 2018, in Eaton County Circuit Court in Charlotte, Mich. The legal wrangling between USA Gymnastics and the victims of sexual abuse by Nassar, among others, is over. A federal bankruptcy court in Indianapolis on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, confirmed a $380 million settlement between USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and the hundreds of victims, ending one aspect of the fallout of the largest sexual abuse scandal in the history of the U.S. Olympic movement. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)
USA Gymnastics, USOPC reach $380M settlement with victims

By Will Graves Dec. 13, 2021 03:57 PM EST

One Nevada church settles, other pressing COVID-19 lawsuit

By Scott Sonner Jun. 23, 2021 04:43 PM EDT
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The state has agreed to pay $175,000 in legal fees to settle a lawsuit with a rural Nevada church over COVID-19 capacity caps on religious...

FILE - In this March 2, 2018 file photo, Televangelist Jim Bakker, right, walks with his wife Lori Beth Graham after a funeral service at the Billy Graham Library for the Rev. Billy Graham, in Charlotte, N.C. Jim Bakker and his southwestern Missouri church will pay restitution of $156,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the TV pastor of falsely claiming that a health supplement could cure the coronavirus. Missouri court records show that a settlement agreement was filed Tuesday, June 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton File)
Jim Bakker, his church settle lawsuit over COVID-19 claims

By Jim Salter Jun. 23, 2021 11:30 AM EDT

Settlement avoids trial in 2011 Katrina trash lawsuit

By Kevin Mcgill Jun. 21, 2021 01:00 PM EDT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A decade-old lawsuit over the awarding of waste disposal contracts following Hurricane Katrina has been settled, avoiding a Monday trial and...

FILE - This March 1, 2017, file photo shows Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden during an interview in Boise, Idaho. A congressional committee heard grievances Tuesday, June 8, 2021, against the owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma amid a longshot effort to advance legislation that would keep them from using the corporate bankruptcy process as a shield for personal liability. Wasden said the Sacklers are standing in the way of seeking justice for the victims of opioid addiction and their families. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)
Democrats push bill aimed at family that owns Purdue Pharma

By Geoff Mulvihill Jun. 08, 2021 05:43 PM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2020, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington. The state of California has agreed to pay more than $2 million in legal fees in a settlement with churches that challenged coronavirus closure orders. Church lawyers who successfully took their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday, June 2, 2021, that the state agreed not to impose restrictions on houses of worship that are greater than those on retail businesses. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
California to pay $2M church legal fees over virus closures

By Brian Melley Jun. 02, 2021 07:44 PM EDT

Settlement OK'd in lawsuit over slow unemployment claims

May. 26, 2021 10:21 AM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a settlement in a lawsuit focused on a beleaguered part of Virginia's unemployment system in an effort to...

Lawsuit seeking online votes for disabled is being settled

May. 25, 2021 10:21 AM EDT
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A lawsuit that led to a system for Mainers with print disabilities to cast absentee ballots online is being settled in an agreement that...

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:25 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 19 The Boston Globe on U.S. aid to Israel should...

Editorial Roundup: New York

By The Associated Press Apr. 30, 2021 02:05 PM EDT
Plattsburgh Press-Republican. April 28, 2021. Editorial: New York to lose congressional seat New York again will lose...

New Mexico settles child care lawsuit, promises subsidies

By Cedar Attanasio Apr. 27, 2021 07:15 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s early childhood department has settled a lawsuit with anti-poverty groups, cementing access to child care subsidies for low...

FILE - This July 23, 2014, file photo, shows a state prison in Florence, Arizona. Lawyers representing Arizona prisoners said in a filing on Friday, April 16, 2021, that a third round of contempt of court fines against the state for failing to improve health care for incarcerated people could reach as high as $23 million. They said their estimate on the maximum possible fine was higher than previously thought due to what they said were their discoveries of additional instances of corrections officials not complying with a 6-year-old settlement over the issue. (AP Photo/File)
Lawyers say Arizona’s fine over prison care could reach $23M

By Jacques Billeaud Apr. 16, 2021 05:16 PM EDT

FILE - This July 23, 2014, file photo, shows a state prison in Florence, Arizona. Arizona corrections officials on Friday, March 26, 2021, cited the staffing and resource demands of the pandemic in trying to fend off a contempt of court fine against the state for failing to follow through on promises in a legal settlement to improve health care for inmates. Such a financial penalty would mark the third contempt fine the state has faced for noncompliance with the settlement. (AP Photo/File)
Pandemic cited by Arizona in bid to avoid contempt fine

By Jacques Billeaud Mar. 29, 2021 07:25 PM EDT

Gov. Larry Hogan, third from right, stands with lawmakers and presidents of Maryland's historically Black colleges and Universities after signing a bill on Wednesday, March 24, 2021 in Bowie, Md., to allocate $577 million over a decade to settle a federal lawsuit over underfunding at the state's four HBCUs. Standing from right to left: David Wilson, president of Morgan State University, Aminta Breaux, president of Bowie State University, Hogan, Heidi Anderson, president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Sen. Charles Sydnor, Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Sen. Melony Griffith. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
Maryland governor signs $577M HBCU settlement bill

By Brian Witte Mar. 24, 2021 10:12 AM EDT

Senators press NC elections chief for answers on ballot deal

By Gary D. Robertson Mar. 23, 2021 06:48 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican senators peppered the state's top elections administrator on Tuesday with questions about a legal settlement...

Attorney: 1,000 Illinois inmates to go free under virus suit

Mar. 23, 2021 02:15 PM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — About 1,000 Illinois inmates scheduled for release in the next nine months could soon be set free as part of a settlement of a federal lawsuit...

Maryland lawmakers approve $577M to settle HBCU lawsuit

By Brian Witte Mar. 17, 2021 05:52 PM EDT
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a measure to pay $577 million over 10 years to settle a federal lawsuit alleging...

Editorial Roundup: North Carolina

By The Associated Press Mar. 17, 2021 08:14 AM EDT
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ March 14 The Greensboro News & Record on...

FILE - This July 23, 2014, file photo, shows a state prison in Florence, Arizona. A judge told the state on March 4, 2021, that the bar for justifying its repeated noncompliance with a 6-year-old legal settlement requiring changes in the quality of health care for prisoners was "exceptionally high." Judge Roslyn Silver previously threatened to impose a contempt-of-court fine against Arizona that could reach as high as $17 million for not following through on promises to improve care. Arizona has already faced $2.5 million in contempt fines in the case. (AP Photo/File)
Judge questions Arizona's approach in deal over prison care

By Jacques Billeaud Mar. 04, 2021 06:57 PM EST

FILE - In this March 9, 2019, file photo, Campolindo players celebrate a win over Colony in the CIF boys' Division II state high school basketball championship game in Sacramento, Calif. On Thursday, March 4, 2021, lawyers representing two high school athletes say Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration has agreed to allow all indoor youth sports to resume as part of a lawsuit settlement. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
Settlement OKs return of indoor youth sports in California

By Adam Beam Mar. 04, 2021 05:41 PM EST