settlement

There’s good news for the Northern Arapaho Nation in Wyoming. The check is in the mail. A case involving the sale and consolidation of Native American territory ended in the $3.4 billion Cobell settlement authorized $1.9 billion for land consolidation...

DENVER (AP) — Nearly 200 inmates have won a $600,000 settlement for the way they were treated during a riot at a Colorado prison in 2004. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that 13 inmates were hospitalized after the riot at a private prison east of Pueblo...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has rejected BP's request to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses who claim the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money. Before a hearing Friday, U...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — Powell Valley Healthcare has settled its lawsuit against a management company over a former hospital CEO charged with bilking the organization of $848,000. The Associated Press reported Thursday the amount of the settlement with HealthTech Management Services hasn't been disclosed...

RIVERTON, Wyo. (AP) — A legal settlement that will provide payments to hundreds of thousands of American Indian trust beneficiaries could bring between $6 million and $8 million to Wyoming in the weeks ahead. The $3.4 billion settlement follows a 17-year legal case over mismanagement of American Indian land trust royalties...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP and a team of attorneys are urging a federal judge to give final approval to a proposed class-action settlement of economic damage claims after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing arguments Thursday from lawyers who negotiated the deal and attorneys who object to it ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A former state senator says the city of Torrington will pay him $25,000 to settle his First Amendment lawsuit for city officials banning him from city buildings. Russell Zimmer had filed the lawsuit in federal court against the city of Torrington, Mayor Michael E...

POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. has reached a settlement with a couple that sued the company over an explosion at their former home in Powell in 2006. The Associated Press reports the couple's attorney notified a judge last month that the sides had reached a confidential settlement...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Attorney General John Suthers says Colorado will get about $205 million as part of a multistate settlement with the nation's five largest national banks over home foreclosures. Suthers said Thursday the agreement will help homeowners hurt by improper mortgage and foreclosures by the banks...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Cameron International, the maker of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer that failed to stop last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $250 million to BP under a legal settlement, BP said Friday...