A preliminary meeting on settlement was held by representatives of the Justice Department, states and Microsoft last week, and the session, which was brief, dealt mainly with procedural matters.
Throughout the deliberations, both sides have complained about leaks to the news media of details of private meetings and settlement terms.
While in some cases one settlement meeting is sufficient to resolve all of your issues, some divorces require multiple meetings to finalize the terms of the divorce.
Technically, Friday's meeting was a settlement conference designed to resolve the legal issues.
Mr. Lee, the cranberry grower, missed the settlement meeting, and Ms. Ashmun abstained from voting.
While no date has been set for a settlement meeting with the Justice Department, those people said, AT&T intends to begin laying out its case later this month.
Tomorrow at 1 p.m., "Central Park" examines the many uses of the park, with stops at Strawberry Fields, the Ramble and the site of the historic Seneca Village settlement, meeting on the northwest corner of Central Park West and 66th Street.
After a meeting of the settlement leaders, one regional council chief, Yehuda Lieberman, said, "We don't need proof that bullets kill and we won't wait to be killed first in order to act".
Officials familiar with the intervention by Ms. Rehnquist, the daughter of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, said she had not ordered her lawyers to take any particular position and did not attend the settlement meeting on Sept. 7, 2001, among lawyers from her office, for Medicare and for the medical societies.
Furthermore, he argues, as he did at the meeting, that the settlement is not anti-competitive because it does not preclude other companies from striking similar deals.
