Sentence examples for settlement of a class from inspiring English sources

"Even a defendant who is innocent and holy may rationally choose to pay a few hundred million dollars in settlement of a class action rather than run the risk of ruinous liability," Judge Jacobs wrote.

"The district court had no authority to approve the settlement of a class that included members that had not sustained losses at all, or had sustained losses unrelated to the oil spill as BP alleges," the court ruled.

The Handschu Guidelines, which, in theory, regulate these operations, were developed in the 1980s as part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit by political groups that claimed that they had been spied upon and infiltrated by the NYPD.

Robert Kaufman is among nearly 40,000 people who have filed claims under a $1.25 billion settlement of a class action suit in Federal District Court in Brooklyn in 2000.

Correction: January 13 , 2001 Saturday An article on Wednesday about New York City's settlement of a class action lawsuit over the strip-searching of prisoners misstated the occupation of one plaintiff, Danni Tyson.

In May Merrill Lynch agreed to replace its mandatory policy with a voluntary one as part of a settlement of a class action sex discrimination suit.

Edward Jones discloses it as well, as the result of a settlement of a class-action lawsuit.

He is also considering a pending settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by authors and publishers over Google's book-scanning project.

In a pending settlement of a class-action lawsuit, Facebook has agreed to make potentially costly changes to how these advertisements work.

Among Judge Chin's prominent cases is the pending $125 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by authors and publishers over Google's book-scanning project.

Included in those results was a $34 million charge related to a settlement of a class-action lawsuit over its membership renewal policy.