Sentence examples for defendants settled from inspiring English sources

The day before trial, the defendants settled for $2.4 million.

The Cassanos and at least two other defendants settled the S.E.C. charges against them.

On the eve of trial, in 2012, more than five years after Nikki Catsouras's death, the defendants settled with the family for nearly $2.4 million.

Four of the defendants settled, three had charges dismissed and two went through the trial and were found not liable by the jury.

The effect, Overstock alleges, was to depress its share price.Most of the defendants settled for undisclosed sums, leaving just Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch (now part of Bank of America) in the cross-hairs.

The Malibu defendants settled for $1.4 million $940,0000 for construction defects and emotional distress, and $460,000 in fees to Robertson.

Defending a libel action can be so costly that many defendants settle immediately or simply do not publish at all.

Malibu Media's attorney, Keith Lipscomb, said that most defendants settle by paying between about two thousand and thirty thousand dollars.

Most insider trading defendants settle lawsuits brought by regulators, agreeing to forfeit ill-gotten gains and pay a fine, without admitting or denying wrongdoing.

In Congressional testimony defending the practice last May, Robert Khuzami, the S.E.C.'s departing enforcement director, noted that some federal agencies allowed defendants settling cases to deny any wrongdoing whatsoever.

To avoid these costs, more than 87percentt of defendants settle before trial, even if the infringement claim has no merit, and despite the fact that less than 1percentt of all defendants in PAE suits are found guilty.