49-27B Where did this holiday gift come from?

It’s good to have a happy-ending story for the holidays – one that’s not sugar-plum sappy, but genuinely uplifting.

It “feels like justice,” said fourth-generation Texas shrimper Diane Wilson in early December, when a federal district judge okayed a $50-million settlement against Formosa Plastics Corporation. Judge Kenneth Hoyt, a Ronald Reagan appointee, had previously ruled that the huge Taiwan conglomerate’s violations of America’s Clean Water Act were “extensive, historical, and repetitive.”