But the judge said that in such an eventuality he retained the authority to reject an inadequate settlement.
Over the weekend, an official allied with the states complained that the Justice Department had been trying to ram through an inadequate settlement proposal without bothering to involve them.
The attorney general -- who played the leading role in unearthing the hidden trading in mutual funds and will continue to investigate Putnam -- accused the S.E.C. of reaching a hasty, "inadequate" settlement and failing to notify him of the deal until the last minute, despite his cooperation.
We are in court now to enforce the law to compel MWRD to do better on green infrastructure and the rest of the inadequate settlement.
And if the facts suggest that this is an unreasonable or unfair or inadequate settlement, I would still have to not approve it.
A spokesman said the council was forced to look at these options due to the "inadequate budget settlement" made by the Scottish government.
Labour came in practice, if not in name, very close to doing this, when it gave the BBC three inadequate licence-fee settlements, resulting in straitened income budgets, eked out year by painful year.
Consequently we have identified many ecological as well as social problems in the coastal settlements: inadequate planning of infrastructure and facilities, illegal and substandard building, aesthetically questionable constructions and divided communities.
The hazard maps should include information on the nature of the hazard (e.g. frequency and severity, topographical data, etc)., exposure inventory (e.g. population, buildings, highway, etc)., and the vulnerability of exposures to hazards (dense population, poorly designed buildings, low grade settlements, inadequate emergency response capacity, etc).
This may suggest inadequate access to settlement health facilities, low quality of settlement health services, and/or the availability of competing health services of higher quality.
