In an effort to speed things along, Mr. Raley said he asked the Justice Department to schedule settlement discussions in a lawsuit filed by the Westlands irrigation district and the power consortium over a restoration plan for the river approved by the Clinton administration in 2000.
The primary negotiators — utility lawyers and the Aguirre & Severson law firm in San Diego — signaled their agreement to more favorable terms for customers three weeks ago, when they notified the commission they planned to schedule settlement talks in the long-running dispute.
Relevant engineering practice shows that non-circular TBMs with customized design and manufacture have great advantages in terms of construction schedule, settlement control, and space utilization.
The scam generally works like this: Hackers find an opening into a title company's or realty agent's email account, track upcoming home purchases scheduled for settlements — the pricier the better — then assume the identity of the title agency person handling the transaction.
Polster has put attorneys on an aggressive timeline, scheduling another settlement hearing for May.
The case was scheduled for preliminary settlement talks, according to the family's lawyer, Jonathan C. Reiter, when TransCare went under.
Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who will rule on the settlement, scheduled a hearing on the agreement for Feb. 18.
Under the settlement, scheduled for a hearing on final approval in a few months, Mexico would give each bracero, or a surviving heir, $3,500.
When tobacco companies raised prices by 45 cents in 1998 and by 18 cents again last year, the increases went primarily to cover the national settlement scheduled to be paid over 25 years.
