Last week, the Penn State board approved a resolution allowing the university to make settlement offers to some of the people who made claims stemming from Sandusky's conduct.
Wilpon and Katz's immediate need for the evidence is to make settlement talks — negotiations now being mediated by the former New York governor Mario M. Cuomo — more productive, their lawyers say.
To the contrary, it is in the interests of the states to keep the companies in business and able to make settlement payments.
One civilian wrote that the rebel officers "were apparently very careful to give receipts for all horses, cattle and other property confiscated and told our people that if they won the war, their government would pay their bills and redeem their currency in gold, but if they lost the war, the Federal government would be obliged to make settlement".
They have the Waitangi Tribunal for Maori tribes to negotiate and make settlements with the Crown.
The calculation, say Akiva Eldar, a journalist, and Idith Zertal, a historian, in "Lords of the Land", a recent book on the settlements, was to make the settlements command the territory and overlook it.
In 2006 she was appointed by President George W. Bush to a President's Emergency Board to investigate, report and make settlement recommendations in a major dispute between a New York rail carrier and its employees represented by multiple labor unions.
Still, the European diplomats are clearly hoping to make the settlements more of an economic liability for Israel, and the Israeli government is aggressively trying to block the change.
At a gathering of mayors, dubbed a new "global parliament", Ban highlighted goal 11 of the New Urban Agenda, which "pledges to make human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable".
Unfortunately, the Obama administration gave the Palestinians an excuse not to come to the table by making settlements the central issue.
