Initially, the settlement depended on livestock raising and associated industries, but by the mid-20th century the city was flourishing on sugar and tobacco.
In November, Judge Kaplan initially approved the settlement.
The plaintiffs, who accuse the now-defrocked priest, John J. Geoghan, of sexual abuse, initially accepted a settlement of $14.9 million to $29.8 million in March.
The settlement initially involved eight companies, but it now involves only Baxter International; Bristol-Myers Squibb; 3M; and Union Carbide and Union Carbide Chemical and Plastics, which are now part of Dow Chemical.
Mr. Mumford, who worked in the Memphis City Schools district for more than two decades, initially refused a settlement offer on conspiracy and aggravated theft charges.
When it was announced, the settlement, initially described as $26 billion, was expected to help roughly one million homeowners get their mortgage debt reduced by lenders or obtain refinancing at lower rates.
It was initially a small settlement that developed at the southern end of a medieval bridge across the River Tyne, opposite the fortress (later city) of Newcastle upon Tyne; at that time it was under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Durham.
Initially, the human settlement started around the temple of Lord Jagannath.
Extraction of oil, gas, water, and sand in Goose Creek initially generated the settlement [22].
Initially an agricultural settlement, Moncton was not incorporated until 1855.
