The settlement demands a 30percentt involvement over four years.
Lyons admitted the licence fee settlement "demands accelerated work within the BBC" on cost savings.
Activists sometimes will publicize some of their settlement demands to generate support from other investors or to appear reasonable and build pressure for their platform.
After Mr. Herold responded that the offer had indeed expired, Mr. Keller began to drop his settlement demands incrementally until they reached $10,000.
When Mr. Herold was sued, he decided to take the case to trial, which eventually led his former employee to drop his settlement demands to $10,000.
But, Ms. Kassel said, the Craanes will have to prove their claims in arbitration because Merrill believes either that they do not have merit or that the Craanes were making excessive settlement demands.
USG said seven companies that were defendants in asbestos lawsuits had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the last 18 months, causing lawyers to increase their settlement demands to other defendants.
Among other things, the rules increased the amount of time defendants have to respond to lawsuits in Manhattan and the Bronx that accuse police officers of excessive force, false arrest or malicious prosecution, and provided for what its authors called "limited discovery" while establishing a strict timetable for settlement demands and mediation.
The dispute involving Judge Wolin has already led plaintiffs' lawyers to increase their settlement demands significantly in many other cases involving companies that are not in bankruptcy proceedings to make up for the delay in resolving the five cases, Mr. Brickman said.
The FTC settlement demands that people give explicit, informed permission for payments.
Settlement demands escalated as lawyers won some big victories, including a $37 million jury verdict in California.
