One involves asking the courts overseeing Castano to rule that even where there are too many differences among smokers to treat them as a group in a trial, they can be regarded as a class in a voluntary settlement.
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Exxon also " began settling with property owners, fishermen and others whose economic interests were harmed by the spill, " the judge wrote, spending $ 300 million on voluntary settlements " prior to any judgments being entered against it ."
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The local officials _ including Police Chief Bernard C . Parks, who never spoke; City Attorney James Hahn; and City Council President John Ferraro _ agreed to work toward a voluntary settlement with the federal government to avoid the lawsuit.
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The court said Tuesday that when the mootness results not from a change in circumstances but from a voluntary settlement, vacatur would " disturb the orderly operation of the federal judicial system " by erasing a precedent that had not been appealed.
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A voluntary settlement by Colt or the other company could act in much the same way as the agreement by Liggett Group, a tobacco company that broke ranks and reached a settlement in suits filed by the state attorneys general against the tobacco industry.
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The monitoring is a product of the PDE addressing its voluntary settlement in Gaskin V . Pennsylvania which ordered that special education students spend most of their school day ( 80 % ) in regular education classrooms with supplementary aids and services to assist.
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If the federal government's demands in previous consent decrees are any indication, the voluntary settlement would include stripping final control of the LAPD away from the mayor, the Police Commission and the City Council, and placing it in the hands of a federal court-appointed monitor.
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"Accordingly, " he said, " I attempted to communicate my thoughts and recommendations which could serve as the basis for either an accepted resolution or at least the framework for further discussions to narrow the differences and draw the parties closer to a voluntary settlement.
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The monitoring is a product of the PDE addressing its voluntary settlement in Gaskin V . Pennsylvania which ordered that special education students spend most of their school day ( 80 % ) in regular education classrooms with supplementary aids and services to assist funded by the taxpayers.
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BJ's director of human resources, Thomas Davis 3d, said in a statement company executives " disagree with the DOL's findings " but agreed to the voluntary settlement " to avoid the expense of litigation . " The company's settlement " makes no admission of liability for any violations, " he said.
