That demand alone would often be enough to prompt a settlement.
A case involving unsympathetic defendants, a relationship with the disgraced Mr. Madoff, bad facts and a slippery theory of liability all seem to have combined to prompt a settlement.
Originally, the Oneidas sued only the government, and in a 1985 test case covering 900 acres, the United States Supreme Court found in their favor, which was expected to prompt a settlement on the larger parcel.
The examination is among the most extensive to date of the banks' foreclosure practices, which caused a national uproar and prompted a $25 billion settlement between the banks and the government that was filed in federal court Monday.
SIDE BAR: WARNING!!! Some pro se regulatory respondents and more than a few inexperienced lawyers often find themselves in negotiations with FINRA staff where, for example, a failure to timely disclose a criminal event could have prompted an initial settlement offer from the regulator of, hypothetically, a 1 year suspension and a $20,000 fine.
Labour lost to Menachem Begin's Likud, which prompted a West Bank settlement boom designed to prevent a repartition.
The accusations outlined in the lawsuit echo problems — from questionable documents used in lawsuits to incomplete records — that plagued the foreclosure process and prompted a multibillion-dollar settlement with big banks.
Ms. Silver-Greenberg writes: "The accusations outlined in the lawsuit echo problems — from questionable documents used in lawsuits to incomplete records — that plagued the foreclosure process and prompted a multibillion-dollar settlement with big banks.
The same problems that plagued the foreclosure process — and prompted a multibillion-dollar settlement with big banks — are now emerging in the debt collection practices of credit card companies.
On 16 December 1944, Germany attempted its last desperate measure for success on the Western Front by using most of its remaining reserves to launch a massive counter-offensive in the Ardennes to attempt to split the Western Allies, encircle large portions of Western Allied troops and capture their primary supply port at Antwerp to prompt a political settlement.
