The Justice Department announced Wednesday a tentative $144 million settlement with families and victims of a 2017 mass shooting at a Texas church that was carried out by a former U.S. airman who was able to purchase firearms despite a criminal history.

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Electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs has agreed to pay nearly $440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.

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Lawyers representing families of victims and survivors of the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, last June have told a judge that they've reached a nearly $1 billion tentative settlement.

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The city of Ferguson, Missouri, has agreed to a $1.7 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused its municipal court of charging illegal court fees, attorneys involved in the case said Wednesday. A judge on Tuesday approved a preliminary ...

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A Jackson County judge on Jan. 16 directed a verdict for Polsinelli in a case in which former clients of the firm alleged it and one of its attorneys breached an oral contract. The trial continued against the individual attorney ...

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Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay $11 billion to a group of insurance companies representing most of the claims from Northern California wildfires in 2017 and 2018 as the company tries to emerge from bankruptcy, the utility announced ...

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Pacific Gas & Electric has agreed to pay $11 billion to a group of insurance companies representing most of the claims from Northern California wildfires in 2017 and 2018 as the company tries to emerge from bankruptcy, the utility announced ...

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A bench trial to determine whether Boone County should get back its $2 million settlement with a man it says defrauded the court by feigning paralysis has been postponed following an attorney’s injury. The trial, initially set for June 25 ...

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A 65-year-old St. Charles County man who was injured when a commercial truck hit his Jeep from behind settled a suit against the other driver and the driver’s employer, a Cape Girardeau hardware store, for slightly more than $1.5 million. ...

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The family of a northwest Missouri child bitten in the face by a loose dog settled a lawsuit against the pet’s owners for more than $150,000. Katie Loralye Leivan, 4, of Maryville was playing in her grandparents’ yard in the ...

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Holdeman v. Stratman (MLW No. 72053/Case No. WD80586 – 21 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Gabbert, J.)

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