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Company: Sears Holding Corp.
Current Parent Company: Sears
Penalty: $11,500,000
Year: 2011
Date: November 21, 2011
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: false advertising
Violation Description: LG Electronics and Sears together agreed to pay $23 million to settle litigation alleging they sold refrigerators falsely labeled as Energy-Star compliant. Court documents did not indicate how much each company would pay. Here we assume they each paid half of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: District of New Jersey
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 2:10-cv-03733
Case Name: O'Brien v. LG Electronics USA, Inc et al
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-department stores
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