Spencer S. Hsu has the details on the final settlement in the lawsuit stemming from the mass arrests in Pershing Park in 2002. Yesterday’s settlement will see the D.C. government pay another $8.25 million to around 400 people; a previous settlement of $13.7 million awarded in April for another similar incident in 2000 means that two Pershing Park arrests total the costliest total settlement ever paid by a city government in U.S. history. In addition to the cash, protesters who were part of the 2002 lawsuit will have their arrest records from the mass arrests expunged. In terms of where the money’s going, named plaintiffs will get either $50,000 or $850,000, those who joined the 2002 lawsuit will get around $16,000, and lawyers for the plaintiffs will get about $2.5 million from the city. On the bright side, it’s not there’s in a budget crunch or anything happening around here in which we could really use an extra 22 million bucks! Oh wait, nevermind.