The company must institute protocols to resolve theft and damage complaints, maintain all licenses required to do business in D.C., and restitute customers who experienced theft or damage in a Getaround vehicle.
“We finally got to this day.”
The District of Columbia and 38 states entered a $7 million settlement agreement today with Google over a case stemming from the online giant’s collection of private data.
D.C. e-book readers might be getting a little money in the near future as part of $69 million settlement between the city, 49 states and three publishers.
Disgraced former Ward 5 councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. stole over $350,000 from the District, and it doesn’t look like the city will be getting that back anytime soon.
This morning, D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan announced that the city had come to a $6 million settlement with contractors who were renovating the Georgetown Public Library when a fire crippled the building on April 30, 2007.
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…
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman gave final approval to a $13.7 million class-action settlement in the lawsuit brought by individuals who were arrested in 2000 while protesting near the near the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The Post reports that arrested individuals deemed eligible will receive $18,000 and have the arrest expunged from the record; the settlement also requires police to undergo further training. Currently, 464 of the approximately 700 individuals who…
D.C. Auditor Deborah Nichols will be allowed “immediate, unrestricted access to approximately 1,000 boxes of documents” related to real estate deals that came out of the now dissolved National Capital Revitalization Corporation and Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, thanks to a settlement agreement announced Wednesday. Nichols had been battling in court with D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles over access to the files, since Nickles had argued that the auditor’s subpoena would place too big a burden on…
WMATA has reached a settlement agreement with Belgian KBC Group over after nearly three full days of court appearances and negotiations. There’s no details available on the terms of the settlement, however, because the parties agreed to keep them secret. For their part, Metro is touting the agreement as having been a victory for them. “Taxpayers have been saved tens of millions of dollars, and Metro no longer faces the immediate threat of cuts to…
