Sentence examples for reopen settlement from inspiring English sources

But they said there was the possibility that the new Justice Department could seek to reopen settlement negotiations.

But late Friday, the bank quietly approached the trading regulator to reopen settlement talks, the people briefed on the matter said.

*Or they can reopen settlement negotiations, which failed during the Clinton administration but which Microsoft executives hope can be rekindled with the new leadership at the Justice Department.

On Sept. 24, four hours before the Justice Department was planning to hold a news conference to announce civil charges against the bank over its sale of troubled mortgage investments, Mr. Dimon personally called one of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s top lieutenants to reopen settlement talks, people briefed on the talks said.

JPMorgan and the agency reopened settlement talks about a week ago, the people said.

Under threat of a lawsuit, according to people briefed on the matter, the bank reopened settlement talks.

But only a small fraction of late claims qualified, and federal courts repeatedly denied subsequent requests to reopen the settlement.

She asked the court to reopen the settlement, setting off a legal dispute that lasted until the spring of 2008, when an Arizona judge ruled in her favor.

She refused their request to reopen the settlement, and in fact seemed annoyed rather than sympathetic about what she regarded as a belated effort.

But the entire exchange at issue, from December 2007, when Judge Scheindlin heard a request from civil rights lawyers to reopen the settlement in an earlier police case, paints a different, much more nuanced picture.

The government asked a judge to reopen the settlement in 2006, asking for another $92 million because of the decline in duck and otter populations.