Lawyers for the companies had said the cigarette makers could afford to pay between $150 million to $375 million, but would be put out of business if the jury granted anything approaching the requested award.
In a November 1 letter to the Ambassador from the Peter family's law firm, Arent Fox, attorney John M. Gurley suggests that the claimants are currently requesting an award of $1 million.
Last month, the seven-person Mountain View City Council turned down most of Google's plan, instead approving five hundred thousand square feet of office space — about a quarter of what Google requested — and awarded the remaining 1.5 million square feet to LinkedIn, Google's nearest techie neighbor.
If the proposer is not in a tenure-track appointment, the institution must state its contractual agreement with the proposer if the appointment period and requested grant award dates are not congruent".
According to the BBC, though, the gold and platinum disc system has been in place only since 1973, and until now has relied on record companies to request such an award for an artist, instead of it being awarded automatically.
The petition, which yesterday had 30,805 signatures, was the idea of computer scientist John Graham-Cumming, who has also written to the Queen to request Turing be awarded a posthumous knighthood.
Applications for R21 awards may request a project period of up to two years with a combined budget for direct costs of up to $275,000 for the two-year period.
The bank appealed the decision in July, and on Monday, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Lower Manhattan rejected Goldman's request to vacate the award.
The Bear Stearns Companies was rebuffed yesterday in its effort to reverse a $171 million court award to Henryk de Kwiatkowski, a Canadian currency speculator, when United States District Judge Victor Marrero refused the company's "extraordinary" request to overturn the award.
UGGLA IN ARBITRATION Second baseman Dan Uggla went to a salary arbitration hearing with the Florida Marlins on Wednesday, asking that he be awarded his request of $5.35 million rather the team's offer of $4.4 million.
