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Pierce County has reached a $1.7 million settlement with a former top-level employee in the executive’s office. Carol Mitchell, who is Black, claimed wrongful termination, retaliation, and racial discrimination after she was fired in the summer of 2020.
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Walmart has agreed to pay $3.1 billion to settle lawsuits nationwide over the impact of the prescriptions its pharmacies filled for powerful prescription opioid painkillers. The deal would still need to be approved by 43 states to take effect.
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A tentative settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit against Washington Mutual Inc, the largest bank failure in the nation's history. If a…