
The settlement between Bay Area Rapid Transit and Wanda Johnson resolves a $50 million wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit filed in federal court by Grant's family. This is the second settlement that BART reached with the Grant family. The agency agreed to pay $1.5 million to the mother of Grant's 6-year-old daughter last year.
Former BART officer Johannes Mehserle, 29, was convicted last year of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting Grant on an Oakland tran station platform on New Years Day in 2009. Mehserle was released this month after serving one year in an Los Angeles jail.

A civil rights suit filed by Grant's family is still in litigation.
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