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A Texas company has been ordered to pay 32 mentally disabled workers $240 million in damages for what government lawyers described as years of around-the-clock abuse.

News Corp reaches a $139m (£91m) settlement with shareholders over complaints filed in relation to the UK phone hacking scandal.

More than four years after a Prince George's County teen died after getting hit on her walk to school, her family was awarded tens of millions of dollars in a wrongful death suit, but the legal battle could be far from over.

The University of California has agreed to pay about $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by UC-Davis students pepper-sprayed by campus police during an Occupy-style protest.

New York’s top banking regulator had charged the British bank with laundering $250 billion in tainted money for Iranian clients.

Washington Mutual agreed to settle a large shareholder class-action lawsuit for $208.5 million that alleged it failed to stop investments when the now-failed bank knew, or should have known, how much trouble it was in.