Macy's policy is to call the police if anyone requests legal representation or asks to be set free immediately, but most people prefer to settle the matter privately, officials said.
Rajoy has said he would prefer to settle the dispute in a friendly manner but at the same time threatened to use all measures available to defend his country's interests.
But today's shooting is only one in a series of violent attacks on reformers that have suggested that some in the hard-line camp would prefer to settle the political future in a test of force, however catastrophic that might be for Iran.
"While we would have preferred to settle this without resorting to a lawsuit, we felt it was important to ensure that our customers and potential customers are not confused by someone abusing our legally protected trademark," said Jason P. Talley, the company's chief executive officer.
"We prefer to settle these matters cooperatively," the letter reads before ending with a request to detail the steps the school district is taking to comply with the First Amendment.
Due to costly court expenses and immediate jailing of those accused of criminal offences, people in the Song preferred to settle disputes and quarrels privately, without the court's interference.
Initially the banks preferred to settle out of court, and hoped that few others would bother to take legal action.
The Andy Griffith Show's Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith), for example, was known on the show as "the sheriff without a gun," and he preferred to settle disputes with homespun good sense rather than brute force.
Of those still in the pool of plaintiffs, several who sat for a recent interview in their lawyer's office said that they would have preferred to settle, but that they had gotten no satisfaction from the compensation fund, administered by Kenneth R. Feinberg, a lawyer in Washington.
Mr. Ladenis, one of the city's more tempestuous personalities, preferred to settle into a relaxed, casual mode at Chez Nico (now cheznico), and he continues in that vein with Incognico, his new restaurant in the West End, just a few steps from the Ivy.
