In an opening statement, Steven R. Kuney, a lawyer for the states, quoted from a deposition of Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, to demonstrate how flawed the Justice Department settlement is.
As recently revealed in the Palestine Papers, Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell and his team of negotiators thereafter began a crude and ignominious effort to arm-twist Palestinian negotiators into resuming negotiations on the basis of a transparently flawed partial Israeli settlement "moratorium".
But one member of the sect, Willie Jessop, speaking to reporters outside the courthouse here, as a hot wind whipped the trees on a day pushing 100 degrees, said that the settlement was flawed, but that half a loaf was good enough.
But attorneys representing plaintiffs in two other billing lawsuits said the settlement was fatally flawed.
That resonance adds relevance to this thorough and absorbing book, because it reminds us that the postwar Middle East settlements were as flawed as the conditions imposed on Germany, and that in turn explains why the land they fought over then is still being contested today.
And, despite its flaws, the Settlement's exhibition does much to spur a greater understanding of Jamestown.
This settlement was always profoundly flawed, but it provided some opportunities for further action - or we were told it did.
John C. Coffee, a Columbia University law professor retained as an expert by the lawyers opposing the settlement, calls the proposed deal "pathologically flawed" and contrary to two recent United States Supreme Court rulings on fairness in class action settlements.
Lawyers objecting to the settlement say the proposal is flawed also by the fact that it treats all plaintiffs alike, no matter where they reside.
