As a May trial date approached, a settlement was finally brokered in March.
Elsewhere, Israeli troops shot a teenage Palestinian girl in the West Bank after she allegedly approached a settlement with a knife.
Other rabbis have already issued a ruling saying it is permissible to desecrate the Sabbath by shooting at people approaching a settlement, even if not sure of their intentions, because they might cause the death of Jews.
Depending on the ruling, the Justice Department could pursue several approaches, including continuing the Clinton administration's approach, negotiating a settlement more to Microsoft's liking, or -- the most radical -- reversing course and withdrawing the complaint.
Mr. Koolhaas, who has described his work as "flamboyant conceptually, but not formally," was approached after a settlement the city reached with the landlord over the zoning of the site.
Macri's more conciliatory approach won a settlement that called for Argentina to pay the holdout creditors roughly 75 percent of what was owed to them, a total of some $4.6 billion.
After approaching a makeshift settlement in the hope of finding fresh water, Eli is captured by the avaricious Carnegie (Gary Oldman), the rickety old town's self-appointed leader, who attempts to take the book, which he believes will give him great power.
Farrell dropped half of the counter-suit a month ago, and soon thereafter approached Schoemaker about a settlement.
In 2004, the Tevatia clan council issued a decree stating that families with fewer than two sons could not approach a village council for the settlement of property disputes.
