UC Pepper-Spray Settlement About $1 Million

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Source: Reuters / Sacto 9-1-1

September 26, 2012

UC pepper-spray settlement about $1 million

By Sam Stanton, Denny Walsh and Andrea Gallo

The University of California regents have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million to end a lawsuit over last November's pepper spraying of UC-Davis students, part of a deal that also calls for a personal written apology from Chancellor Linda Katehi to each person hit with the spray.

The details of the settlement, approved in secret earlier this month by the regents, are contained in documents filed in federal court in Sacramento this morning.

The deal, hammered out in mediation sessions after 21 students and former students sued last February, still must be approved by a federal judge.

It calls for each of the 21 plaintiffs to receive $30,000 for a total payout of $630,000. The agreement also transforms the suit into a class action, which will allow others who were hit with pepper spray during the Nov. 18 protest to submit claims for payments of up to $20,000.

Read more: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/09/pepper-spray-settlement-about-1-million.html

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1. Good, there are more lawsuits filed against the police, in NY, eg by OWS and Journalists

for the brutality they displayed against peaceful protesters. If Cities won't control their police, then it's obviously going to cost the tax payers money.