Click on the company or penalty amount for more information on each case. Click on the current parent name to reach the summary page for that parent company.
| Company | Current Parent | Current Parent Industry | Primary Offense Type | Year  | Agency | Penalty Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smart & Final | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $9,100,000 | ||
| Peet's Coffee | JAB Holding Co. | diversified | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $2,700,000 |
| Big Lots Stores | Big Lots | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $10,000,000 |
| WFS Financial, Inc. | Wells Fargo | financial services | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $4,550,000 |
| General Motors Acceptance Corp. | Ally Financial | financial services | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $9,600,000 |
| Cincinnati Life Insurance Company | Cincinnati Financial | financial services | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $1,900,000 |
| Flagstar Bank | New York Community Bancorp | financial services | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,100,000 |
| ConocoPhillips | Phillips 66 | oil and gas | environmental violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-state | $70,000,000 |
| National Machinery Company | WARN Act violation | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $195,000 | ||
| A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company | Primient | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $100,000,000 |
| Aetna Inc. | CVS Health | retailing | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,500,000 |
| Akzo Nobel Coatings, Inc. | Akzo Nobel | paints and coatings | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $18,750,000 |
| Alpek S.A. de C.V. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,575,000 | ||
| Archer Daniels Midland Company | Archer Daniels Midland | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $400,000,000 |
| BASF AG | BASF | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $12,000,000 |
| Bay Metal, Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $900,000 | ||
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $50,000,000 |
| Cargill Inc. | Cargill | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $24,000,000 |
| Cheil Jedang Corporation | CJ Group | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $42,000,000 |
| Degussa AG | Evonik Industries | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,560,000 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company | Corteva | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,575,000 |
| E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company | Corteva | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $36,000,000 |
| International Paper Co. | International Paper | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $31,000,000 |
| Lonza AG | Lonza | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $27,240,000 |
| M. Weingold & Co. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $9,900,000 | ||
| Mastercard International Inc. | MasterCard | financial services | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,025,000,000 |
| Nepera Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,480,000 | ||
| Packaging Corporation of America | Packaging Corporation of America | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $34,000,000 |
| Panolam Industries International, Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $4,750,000 | ||
| Pioneer Plastics Corp. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $4,750,000 | ||
| Reilly Industries Inc. | Wind Point Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $4,150,000 |
| Smurfit Stone Container Corporation | WestRock | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $92,500,000 |
| Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. | Sumitomo Group | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,500,000 |
| Tanabe Seiyaku Co. Ltd. | Mitsubishi Chemical | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $45,000,000 |
| Visa USA | Visa | financial services | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2004 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,025,000,000 |
| Taco Bell | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $1,500,000 |
| Bank of America | Bank of America | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $4,100,000 |
| Sports Authority | Dick's Sporting Goods | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $1,300,000 |
| Royal Caribbean Cruises | Royal Caribbean Cruises | entertainment | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $14,200,000 |
| Jack in the Box | Jack in the Box Inc. | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $9,300,000 |
| Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp. | Nissan | motor vehicles | discriminatory practices (non-employment) | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,000,000 |
| Shell Oil Company | Shell PLC | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $30,800,000 |
| Exxon Mobil | Exxon Mobil | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $30,800,000 |
| ChevronTexaco | Chevron | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $30,800,000 |
| Kerr-McGee | Occidental Petroleum | oil and gas | environmental violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-state | $760,000 |
| Monsanto Co. | Bayer | chemicals | PCB violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $390,000,000 |
| Solutia Inc. | Eastman Chemical | chemicals | PCB violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $50,000,000 |
| Mercedes-Benz USA LLC | Mercedes-Benz Group | motor vehicles | product safety violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $32,000,000 |
| Pan American Medical Centers Inc. | WARN Act violation | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $4,250,000 | ||
| American BioScience Inc. | Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $815,000 |
| Archer Daniels Midland Company | Archer Daniels Midland | agribusiness | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,250,000 |
| Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. | British American Tobacco | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $69,600,000 |
| Georgia Pacific Corporation | Koch Industries | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Humana Inc. | Humana | healthcare services | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $100,000,000 |
| International Paper Company | International Paper | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Lorillard Tobacco Co. | British American Tobacco | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $69,600,000 |
| Mitsubishi Corp. | Mitsubishi Corporation | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $45,000,000 |
| Nippon Carbon Co. Ltd | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,875,000 | ||
| Philip Morris USA Inc. | Altria | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $69,600,000 |
| Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd. | Takeda Pharmaceutical | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $22,000,000 |
| Temple-Inland, Inc. | International Paper | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $7,200,000 |
| Union Camp Corporation | International Paper | paper and packaging | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Weyerhaeuser Company | Weyerhaeuser | building materials | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2003 | private lawsuit-federal | $17,000,000 |
| Petco Animal Supplies | CVC Capital Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $2,500,000 |
| United Parcel Service | United Parcel Service | freight and logistics | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $18,000,000 |
| Ditech | Ditech Holding Corporation | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,150,000 |
| Perdue Farms | Perdue | food products | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 |
| RadioShack | RadioShack | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $29,900,000 |
| Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $3,000,000 | ||
| Silicon Graphics | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | information technology | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $5,500,000 |
| Jo-Ann Stores | Leonard Green & Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $6,500,000 |
| Coast National Insurance | Zurich Insurance | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $18,000,000 |
| Starbucks | Starbucks | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $18,000,000 |
| Tropicana Products | PAI Partners | private equity (including portfolio companies) | employment discrimination | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $816,815 |
| Shell Oil Co. | Shell PLC | oil and gas | MTBE violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $28,000,000 |
| Lyondell Chemical | LyondellBasell Industries | chemicals | MTBE violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $4,000,000 |
| Met-Coil Systems Corporation and Mestek Inc. | environmental violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $10,000,000 | ||
| Dow Chemical Company | Dow Inc. | chemicals | environmental violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $3,250,000 |
| CSX | CSX | railroads | environmental violation | 2002 | private lawsuit-state | $220,000,000 |
| Ajinomoto Co. Inc. | Ajinomoto | food products | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $58,000,000 |
| Chisso Corporation | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,000,000 | ||
| Degussa AG | Evonik Industries | chemicals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,666,666 |
| E. Merck KG | Merck KGaA (EMD) | pharmaceuticals | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $50,000,000 |
| Mitsui & Co. | Mitsui | diversified | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,666,666 |
| Rhone-Poulenc SA | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,666,666 | ||
| U.S. Tobacco Co. | Altria | tobacco | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $1,050,000,000 |
| Ueno Fine Chemicals, Inc. | price-fixing or anti-competitive practices | 2002 | private lawsuit-federal | $6,500,000 | ||
| CSK Auto | O'Reilly Automotive | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $8,800,000 |
| Pacific Bell and Pacific Telesis | AT&T | telecommunications | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $35,000,000 |
| BCI Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles | Coca-Cola Co. | beverages | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $20,200,000 |
| Bank of America | Bank of America | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $22,000,000 |
| Eckerd | Rite Aid | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $8,000,000 |
| Pizza Hut | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $10,000,000 |
| Taco Bell | Yum Brands | restaurants and foodservice | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $13,000,000 |
| Farmers Insurance Exchange | Farmers Insurance Exchange | financial services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $90,009,208 |
| Rite Aid | Rite Aid | retailing | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $25,000,000 |
| Perdue Farms | Perdue | food products | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $2,400,000 |
| U-Haul | AMERCO | miscellaneous services | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-state | $7,500,000 |
| Frito-Lay | PepsiCo | food products | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $11,900,000 |
| Microsoft | Microsoft | information technology | wage and hour violation | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $97,000,000 |
| Caterpillar | Caterpillar Inc. | heavy equipment | employment discrimination | 2001 | private lawsuit-federal | $256,303 |
