Kansas City proposes to settle several costly lawsuits
Kansas City municipal government is proposing to settle two costly lawsuits, although the payments would be made over several years.
The City Council is expected to consider the settlements next week.
The first settlement would resolve a class-action lawsuit over $25 warrant fees that many defendants paid to Kansas City Municipal Court to cancel their warrants. The members of the class argued the fee constituted a court cost above what was allowed by Missouri law.
An ordinance proposes to settle that case for $2.4 million, which the Finance Department said would be paid out over two years. Details of how people who paid the fees may be reimbursed are not yet available.
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