Last summer, the N.C.A.A. was required to establish a $218 million relief fund as settlement for a class-action lawsuit brought by football and basketball players who argued that their scholarships did not adequately cover certain living expenses, including medical bills.
With the distribution of checks to more than 650 players containing interest payments on damage awards the players previously received, the case is closed 18 years after it began and 13 years after the owners agreed to pay the players $280 million as settlement for their transgressions -- which they have never admitted, incidentally.
Penguin Books India has agreed to withdraw a controversial book on Hinduism as settlement for a lawsuit filed in 2011, The New York Times reported.
As seems fitting for a documentary about a group of radical artists, Bell, who was arrested at the 2002 Pershing Park IMF protests along with some 400 other protesters, has funded a lot of the film with money paid out by the D.C. government as settlement for the class-action settlement stemming from those arrests.
When the ships finally dropped anchor in the Thames River on 14 October 1711, a legal battle ensued, with the investors paying the East India Company £6,000 as settlement for their claim for breach of monopoly, about four percent of what Rogers brought back.
The results demonstrate the importance of no-till and sub-drain line habitats as settlement supports for the inoculated population.
This research sheds some light on the philosophy of using piles as settlement reducers for raft foundations and also the behavior of piled raft embedded into sand.
In tropical reef systems, red coralline algae act as settlement cues for coral larvae [ 4, 5] and help to stabilise and develop tropical reef structure [ 3].
Sites can act not only as settlements but as places for population aggregations, social interactions and symbolic activities; in this context, the relevance presence of a site within the landscape could have been an influencing factor in site location preferences.
