Settlement in death of Declan Sullivan

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    Notre Dame will pay a $42,000 fine for six safety violations, make an undisclosed contribution to a memorial for a student videographer who died at football practice and start a campaign on the hazards of scissor lifts as part of a settlement with the state of Indiana.

    The details were announced Friday. Notre Dame originally had been fined $77,500, and the most serious charge against it was that it knowingly put its employees in an unsafe situation and failed to heed National Weather Service warnings on a day when wind speeds reached 53 mph.

    The settlement reduces the charge from a knowing violation to a serious violation.

    Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6729161
     

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