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to sexual abuse by a gynecologist employed by the university).
4. $165 million – Hoechstetter, et al. v. Columbia University, Case No. 19-CV2978 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 7, 2022) (settlement agreement reached in class action
against the university alleging sexual abuse of hundreds of female patients by
university personnel).
5. $20 million – Bauserman, et al. v. State Of Michigan Unemployment
Insurance Agency, Case No. 15-202-MM (Mich. Cl. Ct. Sept. 28, 2022) (funds
set aside by the Legislature for resolution of a class action alleging that Michigan
had used an automated fraud-detection system to determine that plaintiffs had
received unemployment benefits for which they were not eligible and then
garnished plaintiffs’ wages and tax refunds to recover the amount of the alleged
overpayments, interest, and penalties without due process).
6. $4.8 million – Ramirez, et al. v. U.S. Immigration And Custom Enforcement,
Case No. 18-CV-508 (D.D.C. Sept. 7, 2022) (final settlement approval granted in
class action alleging that the government routinely failed to consider safer
options before transferring teens to adult detention facilities after they turned
eighteen).
7. $4.1 million – Rivas, et al. v. Jennings, Case No. 20-CV-2731 (N.D. Cal. June
9, 2022) (final settlement approval granted for class action alleging that the
government failed to provide adequate protections against COVID-19 in
detention centers that also entailed payment of attorneys’ fees and costs).
8. $3.2 million – Paguirian, et al. v. Prompt Nursing Employment Agency LLC,
Case No. 17-CV-1302 (E.D.N.Y. Apr. 7, 2022) (final settlement approval granted
in class action alleging violation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act).
9. $2.375 million – Camarlinghi, et al. v. Santa Clara County, Case No. 21-CV03020 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 15, 2022) (final approval granted in class action
challenging the County’s detention of people at its jail for 12 or more hours after
the District Attorney declined to prosecute them).
10. $550,000 – Zeyala, et al. v. Hammer, Case No. 19-CV-62 (E.D. Tenn. Oct. 19,
2022) (preliminary settlement approval granted in class action alleging ICE raid
illegally targeted Latino workers in violation of the workers’ Fourth Amendment
right to be free from unreasonable searches and their equal protection rights
under the Fifth Amendment).
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