In January, the federal judge hearing the case ordered settlement talks, but no meeting has been held.
She said the inquiry must look at who had ordered the settlement and what they got out of it.
It ordered the settlement to stop building its new neighborhood and ordered the Israeli military to move the route of the barrier back toward Israel, thereby returning about half the lost land to the village.
One of Mr. Suharto's lawyers, Mohammad Assegaf, said he found the offer distasteful, saying, "How can the family negotiate when they are concentrating on their father's health?" Mr. Yudhoyono then denied that he had ordered a settlement offer.
Lawyers for the overdraft plaintiffs objected, and US district court Judge Vince Chhabria ordered the settlement rewritten to be narrower.
In a statement to the Journal, Gawker's press representative said Hogan had been ordered to discuss settlements with Gawker "many times over the years".
As in court-ordered settlements, the payouts are based on projected earning power and factors like pain and suffering.
In recent years, the 66-year-old Hirschfeld has paid out many thousands of dollars in court-ordered settlements for such actions as having illegally evicted or harassed tenants and, on one occasion, having physically held a city official prisoner in her office because he objected to her department's handling of a permit for one of his real-estate projects.
In any case, the attorney has resigned, and Carl J. Barbier, the federal judge who is overseeing the settlement, ordered an investigation, which is continuing.
The state has spent $16 million on improvements ordered by the settlement and has budgeted $17.7 million for further improvements in the current fiscal year.
The United States Justice Department last week sent Westchester officials a letter saying that the county had failed to enact legislation prohibiting housing discrimination based on source of income as ordered by the settlement and by a federal court ruling.
