The judge overseeing the rewriting of the college sports rulebook threw a potentially deal-wrecking roadblock into the mix Wednesday, insisting parties in the antitrust lawsuit redo the part of the proposed settlement.
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Cummins has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and will pay $1.675 billion—the largest Clean Air Act settlement in history—to resolve allegations that the company violated the Clean Air Act by installing “defeat devices” in some of its pickup truck engines.
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The settlement involves a former Purdue professor who was accused of falsifying and fabricating data related to federally funded research. After researching the allegations, Purdue said it agreed the federal research funding should be returned.
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The pollutants, polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances—commonly known as PFAS—can be found in many industrial and cosmetic products and have been linked to infertility, thyroid disorders and several types of cancer.
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Under the nationwide settlement, the companies will offer a free repair to all eligible vehicles at a cost that could top $500 million and outfit all future vehicles sold in the U.S. with a key piece of technology.
Teams have argued for more than two years that their charters needed to be made permanent and revenue sharing had to change.
The government says the lab billed Medicare for tests that were unnecessary or tied to improper referral arrangements.
Thousands of victims of the opioid epidemic could be paid thousands of dollars each, with a portion of the money distributed next year to some people who had OxyContin prescriptions and their survivors.
The class-action lawsuit would affect more than 7,700 men and women who worked as volunteer coaches in sports other than baseball, according to a motion for preliminary approval filed this week.
The high court granted a joint request from Rokita and the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission to dismiss the case as moot, saying the two sides had resolved their dispute.
About 465,000 books are on the list of works pirated by Anthropic, according to Justin Nelson, an attorney for the authors.
The Seattle company will pay $1 billion in civil penalties—the largest fine in FTC history, and $1.5 billion will be paid to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from canceling their subscriptions, the agency said Thursday.
The deal with DuPont, Chemours and Corteva is the largest such settlement in the state’s history.
Attorney General Todd Rokita announced Monday that Indiana is expected to receive another $16.5 million as part of the latest multistate opioid settlement.
Most of the money would go to state and local governments to address the nation’s addiction and overdose crisis, but potentially more than $850 million would go directly to individual victims.
The Plainfield-headquartered utility said its agreement aligns with Indiana Gov. Mike Braun’s pro-coal goals.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said the agreement addresses the devastating impact of Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of opioid products under the Sackler family’s ownership, which “fueled the worst drug crisis in U.S. history.”
The document would bind institutions to enforcement policies even if their state laws are contradictory and would require schools to waive their right to pursue legal challenges against the new enforcement entity, the College Sports Commission.
Attorneys handling the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement proposed a massive do-over Wednesday when it comes to roster limits.
An attorney in the $2.8 billion legal case reshaping college sports said an agreement reached with the Indianapolis-based NCAA should address U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken’s concerns.
The U.S. Department of Justice accused the pharmacy of illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances.
The former CEO of Edison School of the Arts, who sued the school over defamation after his termination in 2023, has reached a deal with the school to receive a judgment of about $269,000 in his favor.
Occupational therapists, physical therapists and registered nurses have received payments from the settlement, while almost a third will go toward attorney fees.
Members of the Sackler family who own the OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma would hand over the company in the latest plan to settle thousands of lawsuits.
