A22 False-Imprisonment Settlement Los Angeles and the federal government agreed to settle a lawsuit by Elmer Pratt, whose murder conviction was overturned in 1997, after he had spent 27 years in prison.
Eventually he received a $4.5m settlement for wrongful imprisonment and violation of his civil rights.
They persist to this day in many forms such as institutionalized discrimination, land and water confiscation, house demolitions, administrative detention and imprisonment, military assaults, checkpoints, illegal settlements on Palestinian land, and rampant settler violence against a captive and predominantly unarmed population.
Mr. Bush needs to announce a timeline of moves required of each side -- the abandonment of select settlements by Israel, say, and the imprisonment of terrorist leaders by Palestinians -- in order to break this dynamic.
Two intifadas, tens of thousands of personal acts of violence, legal and illegal settlements, checkpoints, separation barriers, arrests and the imprisonment of countless Palestinians and still no progress.
Robert Tchenguiz, who was filing for false imprisonment and damage to his business empire, had not joined the settlement last week, leaving the SFO facing another round of expensive legal action.
The purpose of these boycotts is to pressure companies not to participate in violating Palestinian rights and thus force Israel to comply with international law regarding refugees, settlements, home demolitions, freedom of movement, ethnic discrimination, imprisonment, and torture.
Six years later, 39 miners would secure a settlement of £425,000 from South Yorkshire Police after suing for assault, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.
Six years later, 39 miners would secure a settlement of £425,000 [$600,000] from South Yorkshire Police after suing for assault, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution.
The attorney for Yasiel Puig is negotiating a settlement to a federal lawsuit that faults the Dodgers outfielder for the alleged torture and imprisonment of a Cuban man.
Of the $3.8 billion in pacts the firm negotiated, about $3.2 billion was from settlements for investors who sued Tyco International following an accounting scandal several years ago that led to the imprisonment of its former chief, Dennis Kozlowski.
