Sentence examples for pretrial settlement from inspiring English sources

A guilty defendant can use pretrial settlement to influence the complainant not to cooperate with the prosecution".

"Because the rape victim's testimony is central to the success of a rape prosecution," he writes, "pretrial settlement in rape cases can undermine the enforcement of rape law.

The settlement, made public Thursday, is the largest pretrial settlement ever in California for a wrongful conviction and one of the largest in the country, said Barry Litt, a lawyer for the man, Thomas Lee Goldstein.

Note that in this pretrial settlement, Liberty National didn't admit any wrongdoing or specify that the payments were for punitive damages.

The agency paid $95,400 in a pretrial settlement and soon after announced that it would no longer set aside 15% of the total number of slots for a competition reserved for African-American, Hispanic, and native American students.

Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay more than $83 million to residents of a Nigerian fishing community that was devastated by two oil spills in 2008, the largest ever pretrial settlement related to an oil spill in Nigeria, a country plagued by oil-related environmental disasters.

The settlement followed pretrial negotiations in recent months, according to court documents.

They prefer negotiated settlements and pretrial determinations by judges based only on paper submissions.

The judge may also try to work toward a settlement during a pretrial conference.

These days, that number has fallen to 13. Judges spend the rest of their time doing such things as supervising the exchange of information between parties, deciding pretrial motions and urging or approving settlements and plea bargains.

At that point, the only remaining options are to either pay the assessed amount and to file a claim for refund, or to negotiate a settlement with the IRS during a pretrial conference.