Sentence examples for litigation to settle from inspiring English sources

But Judge Silverman, who had urged litigation to settle the issue, took a different approach in his opinion two years ago.

It concluded that it would take years of expensive litigation to settle its meaning and "when the dust clears, [all] unmarried couples would have fewer rights over their most important life decisions than they would have had otherwise".

The aim is less apology than a full accounting of a complex, often baffling story, one in which conquistadores binge-read chivalric romance novels; Indians pursue litigation to settle disputes with their conquerors; and committees convene to discuss the King's right to invade China.

This settlement agreement states that Mr. Rose and his production company "do not admit any liability or wrongdoing" and that they agreed "solely for the purpose of avoiding the costs and disruption of ongoing litigation and to settle all claims".

For many small-business owners, it has become conventional wisdom that the best way to deal with employee litigation is to settle quickly and move on, regardless of whether the owner or the company has done anything wrong.

If the claim can go to the jury, and can't be quickly and comparatively inexpensively disposed of on a motion to dismiss, then the expense and risk of litigation pressures defendants to settle, even if a jury might eventually do the right thing after hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees are spent.

"The evidence available to date does not provide a reasonable basis to find that James Murdoch knew of widespread wrongdoing or criminality at [the News of the World] or that, by allowing litigation to be settled and by allowing NGN and News International executives to make the representations they did, he was complicit in a cover-up," the regulator said.

"Litigation often will delay a deal, and there is often a lot of pressure on companies to settle litigation in advance of a deal," said Michael Klausner, a professor at Stanford Law School.

Liggett has previously sought to settle litigation against it.

They also said the attorney general had broad discretion to settle litigation.

[C2.] Tenet Settles Patient Lawsuits Tenet Healthcare agreed to pay $395 million to settle litigation accusing one of its hospitals of performing unnecessary surgeries.