Sentence examples for settlement to drop from inspiring English sources

Tantaros's lawyer has revealed that Fox previously offered the news host a seven-figure settlement to drop her sexual-harassment claims.

Last year, the Nigerian state of Kano, where the experiments occurred, accepted a $75 million settlement to drop criminal charges and a civil suit seeking more than $2 billion.

The move has been made possible after BSkyB today reached an interim settlement to drop its fight to get the Competition Appeals Tribunal to implement a "stay" to postpone the implementation of Ofcom's ruling that it must cut the amount it charges rival pay-TV operators to offer Sky Sports by up to more than 20%.

He reported that one of the victims in the original phone-hacking case, Gordon Taylor of the Professional Footballers Association, had received an out-of-court settlement to drop legal action that could have led to other News of the World journalists being named.

The F.B.I. had already paid another former Army scientist, Steven J. Hatfill, a settlement worth $4.6 million to drop a lawsuit saying the bureau had falsely accused him of being the anthrax mailer.

In February, as part of an out-of-court settlement, she agreed to drop a $25 million defamation suit against Conte, who pleaded guilty in July to federal charges of steroid distribution and money laundering.

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(Church members had lodged more than two thousand lawsuits against the Internal Revenue Service, ensnaring the agency in litigation. As part of the settlement, the church agreed to drop its legal campaign).

In reaching the settlement, Mr. DiNapoli agreed to drop the lawsuit, leaving untested the proposition that shareholders could use Delaware's unique corporate governance laws to force more political disclosure from the hundreds of large companies that are incorporated in that state.

In the recent out-of-court settlement, Mr. Nasso agreed to drop the suit and Mr. Seagal agreed to pay Mr. Nasso an undisclosed amount of money and write a letter supporting his application for a pardon, Mr. Nasso's lawyer Robert Hantman said.

There is a scene in The Verdict, the great courtroom drama, that comes after a down-and-out lawyer named Frank Galvin Frank Galvin (played by Paul Newman Paul Newman ) is offered a hefty cash settlement if he agrees to drop his case on behalf of a woman who wound up in a coma after seemingly routine surgery.