On Aug. 19, Mr. Falcone agreed to a landmark settlement with the S.E.C.
Almost 2,000 California prison inmates in solitary confinement, some for decades, are to be released into general prison populations in a landmark settlement.
Mr. Quattrone was referring, of course, to the former New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer's landmark settlement in 2002, which forced the separation of investment banking from research.
Added Thomas Kubic, a deputy assistant director with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, "This is a landmark settlement and a benchmark for the health care industry".
It may help her cause that the bank has just agreed to the biggest fine, $325 million, in the landmark settlement between regulators and Wall Street.
The landmark settlement is expected to provide a road map for the I.R.S. as it tries to clamp down on tax evasion by Americans who use offshore accounts.
Your March 31 editorial "Google's Book Deal" correctly points out that the landmark settlement between the company and authors and publishers would have "given new life to millions of half-forgotten titles collecting dust in out-of-the-way libraries".
Three and a half years after a landmark settlement to resolve complaints against subprime giant Countrywide Financial, the architects of that deal say they hope the servicing standards that will be unveiled this week in Washington will have more of an impact.
Despite a landmark settlement that was expected to increase coverage for out-of-network care, the nation's largest health insurers have been switching to a new payment method that in most cases significantly increases the cost to the patient.
Under the agreement, which follows a landmark settlement with U.S. publishers last year, Google will be allowed to sell the books it scans as e-books or in other electronic formats.
