Tag: Settlement
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Man to receive $350,000 settlement for beating by Denver police during protest
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver will pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who said he was tackled, punched and beaten in the genitals by Denver police officers unprovoked at a protest over the city’s clearing of a homeless encampment in July 2020. City Council Monday…
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Walmart to pay $3.1 billion in opioid settlement led by Colorado, 15 other states
Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in a national settlement to resolve claims from over a dozen states’ attorneys general that the company contributed to the opioid addiction crisis. Colorado is set to receive more than $40 million of the settlement money, state Attorney General Phil Weiser announced on Tuesday. Weiser led the negotiations…
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Cable TV provider who donated $40,000 to Colorado AG Phil Weiser was treated differently in probes
Dozens of people with ties to Dish Network ponied up nearly $40,000 in campaign contributions to Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser — many of them giving for the first time — just before, during and after the company was the focus of a deceptive trade practices inquiry that began in 2021, campaign records show. And although two…
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Colorado gets $18 million in opioid settlement money
Colorado will receive $18 million in opioid settlement money, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Thursday. Nineteen regions in Colorado will split the $18 million, while Denver will get $4.7 million. Denver plans to use the money in three areas: Prevention, treatment and infrastructure, according to a Thursday news release from the Denver Department of Public…
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Boulder couple settles lawsuit against city over oil and gas permitting moratorium
The City of Boulder agreed Friday to pay a couple who own mineral rights inside the city limits $35,000 for interfering with their property rights, according to a news release from Advance Colorado Action. Starting in 2013, the city imposed what was supposed to be a short-term moratorium on oil and gas exploration while it…
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Xcel Energy agrees to pay $925K fine to settle with EPA over coal ash disposal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement Monday with Xcel Energy over alleged violations of EPA coal-ash disposal guidelines at Xcel’s Comanche power plant in Pueblo. According to the EPA, Xcel has agreed to “return to compliance” with the EPA’s Coal Combustion Residuals program and…
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Coloradans to get money back from TurboTax settlement
The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York’s attorney general announced Wednesday. Under the terms of a settlement signed by the attorneys general of all 50 states, Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc. will suspend…
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Frontier Airlines, ACLU reach settlement in pregnant flight attendants case
Frontier Airlines has agreed to change several company policies that address the needs of pregnant and lactating flight attendants as part of a settlement between the airline and four of its employees, the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado announced Wednesday. The settlement comes after the flight attendants sued Frontier over allegations that the Denver-based…
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Major cooperative agrees to aggressive clean power goals, consider retiring Craig coal plant 4 years early
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which supplies power to 43 power distribution cooperatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska, agreed Wednesday to accelerate its transition to renewable energy and consider potentially shutting down a coal plant unit in the City of Craig four years…
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Year in review: Parents of Elijah McClain have yet to see a penny from settlement six months after it was awarded
It could be several more months before Elijah McClain’s family is paid the $15 million it is owed by the city of Aurora for Elijah’s death. The money is being held in federal court coffers until a judge decides how to divide the funds between McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, and father, Lawayne Mosley. The next court hearing is…