COLUMBUS, Ohio — Purdue Pharma and the thousands of state and local governments suing the maker of OxyContin over the nation's deadly opioid crisis are negotiating a $10 billion to $12 billion settlement under which the Sackler family would give up ownership of the company, according to published reports. Under...
Judge Orders Drugmaker to Pay $572 Million in Opioid Lawsuit
NORMAN, Okla. — An Oklahoma judge on Monday found Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries helped fuel the state's opioid crisis and ordered the consumer products giant to pay $572 million, more than twice the amount another drug manufacturer agreed to pay in a settlement. Cleveland County District Judge Thad...
Fresno Mom to Get $5.7M in Electrocution Death of Her Son
A lawsuit filed by the mother of a 12-year-old boy electrocuted at a Fresno apartment complex has been settled for $5.7 million, attorney Warren Paboojian says. Adrian Antunez was playing with other children at Villa Margaritas, 1235 N. Recreation Ave., when he went to retrieve a football. He was electrocuted...
Landlord Who Refused to Rent to Muslim Men Settles Lawsuit
DENVER — A Denver landlord who was recorded telling her tenant to find an "American person ... good like you and me" to sublease her property instead of a Muslim father and son seeking to open their second restaurant must pay the men $675,000 under a settlement. The three men...
California and Judicial Watch Settle on Cleaning Up Voter Rolls
LOS ANGELES — State election officials and the conservative legal group Judicial Watch have reached a settlement over how California handles records of inactive voters. At issue was how election officials were handling records of voters who hadn't voted in repeated elections and were not part of active voter rolls...
New Tesla Chair Must Rein in CEO Musk at Key Moment
WASHINGTON — It won't be an easy job. Whoever becomes the new chairman of Tesla Motors will face the formidable task of reining in Elon Musk, the charismatic, visionary chief executive with an impulsive streak, while also helping Musk achieve his dream of turning Tesla into a profitable, mass-market producer...
City Pays $2.8 Million in Shooting Death of Dylan Noble
More than two years after Fresno police shot and killed Dylan Noble, the Fresno City Council voted to settle the case with his family. A memorial remains at the location where the 19-year old died in an incident captured by police body cameras and a bystander cellphone video camera. His...