On Monday, British lawmakers, politicians and newspapers focused on a decision by the BBC Trust to authorize a settlement payment to the former director general, George Entwistle, equivalent to one year's salary of around $750,000.
But the News Corporation appears to be holding firm on another confidentiality agreement that binds a different set of lawyers from talking about negotiations in the first hacking lawsuit filed against The News of the World, settled after James Murdoch authorized a confidential settlement worth about $1.17 million, plus legal fees.
Mr. Silver censured Mr. Lopez, a fellow Democrat, this summer after two female employees accused him of harassment, but the speaker was criticized after it was revealed that he authorized a confidential settlement this year with two other women who had accused Mr. Lopez of harassment.
On Tuesday, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners authorized a $100,000 settlement in the case, spokesman Robert Quigley said.
A federal judge said yesterday that he planned to authorize a $192.5 million settlement of a discrimination lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Company, giving the final seal of approval to the largest settlement ever in a racial bias case.
[C11.] Judge Plans to Clear Coke Bias Pact A federal judge said that he planned to authorize a $192.5 million settlement of a discrimination lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Company, giving the final seal of approval to the largest settlement ever in a racial bias case.
And Republicans are increasingly asking Democrats to demand that the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, relinquish his leadership post over his decision to authorize a secret settlement of some of the allegations.
The state's ethics commission met in secret on Tuesday to discuss how and whether to proceed in their investigation of the Assembly's handling of the matter, including Mr. Silver's decision to authorize a monetary settlement to two members of Mr. Lopez's staff who alleged that they had been harassed by him.
The legislation also approved the creation of an office providing legal support to staffers reporting sexual harassment, and authorized a separate bill requiring lawmakers who agree to sexual harassment settlements to pay out of their own pockets.
After a landmark settlement in 1984 of a class-action suit brought by more than 100,000 Vietnam veterans, Congress authorized a review of the herbicide's potential health impacts in the Agent Orange Act of 1991.
