Sentence examples for case to be settled from inspiring English sources
This appeal was motivated largely by Martin van Buren, President, who wanted the case to be settled in a manner which would appease the southern states.
Christopher Bentley, a spokesman for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of Homeland Security, said that it usually took one to three years for an asylum case to be settled.
Barry Scheck, a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, and Sean O'Shea and John Gallagher, former assistant United States attorneys now in private practice in New York, said they expected the case to be settled before it comes to trial.
A judge gave preliminary approval for the case to be settled by paying users up to $10 £6.200; 7.60 euros) each out of a settlement fund of $20m.
it is unusual, however, for a case to be settled on a cy pres basis without even attempting to compensate the plaintiffs directly, objecting lawyers say.
When Jenijoy La Belle, who had been hired in 1969 but refused tenure in 1974, filed suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Christy pressed for the case to be settled and La Belle to be given tenure.
More than 50 former personnel who were sacked because of their sexuality are now waiting for their breach-of-privacy cases to be settled by the MoD.
German law provides for some criminal cases to be settled with smaller punishments, such as fines, though the size of the payment in Ecclestone's case has led some to question a system that effectively favours wealthy defendants.
German law provides for some criminal cases to be settled with smaller punishments, such as fines, though the size of the payment in the Ecclestone case has led some to question a system that in effect favours rich defendants.
It's a mixed bag: on one hand, blood money allows cases to be settled without prison or other potentially unproductive punishments; on the other hand, those with means can more easily buy their way out of crimes.
In 1994-95 the United States reformed its process, depriving applicants of permission to work while waiting for their cases to be settled, as long as that took no more than six months.
