He also said he planned to remove all "litigation, regulation, excessive cost" barriers to businesses (declaring Wisconsin, on election night, "open for business!"), and to put an end to a plan for a federally financed rail project between Milwaukee and Madison that he says would cost too much for the state to operate once it is built.
But, he said, "more needs to be done to improve responsiveness, reduce litigation and remove politics from the process".
The pair of settlements would remove the threat of litigation looming over Andersen Worldwide's partnerships in other countries.
Although the terms of the settlement were not made public, people close to the negotiations said the gist of the deal was that Warnaco agreed to limit significantly the percentage of its jeanswear sales to warehouse clubs in return for having Mr. Klein settle and remove the cloud of litigation that has been one of many factors depressing the stock price of Warnaco, which is laden with debt.
"Resolving this litigation removes uncertainty and risk and is in the best interests of our shareholders," Brian T. Moynihan, the bank's chief executive, said in a statement.
A DWP spokesman said in a statement before the latest round of the litigation: "Removing the spare room subsidy has restored fairness to the system for claimants as well as the taxpayer, and the numbers subject to a reduction are falling.
Instead, they look at data protection and governance on mobile devices, working with eDiscovery vendors like Recommind and AccessData to help companies entangled in litigation isolate and remove content involved in the lawsuit from the affected mobile devices with minimum possible disruption to the owner.
"We believe that Altria could spin off PMI now while the legal environment is as benign as it has been in quite some time, and completely remove it from any U.S.-litigation related overhang that may exist in the future," she said.
Do we have to remove all purple dinosaurs to prevent litigation from the lawyers representing Barney the Purple Dinosaur?
On Friday, the N.A.A.C.P. issued an e-mail statement to reporters announcing an agreement with the schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, that would remove three charter schools from the litigation.
