All told, the civil settlement would be the largest yet by an automobile company, dwarfing the $1.4 billion that Toyota paid to settle a class-action lawsuit over flawed accelerators and the more than $2 billion General Motors has paid so far to settle claims from owners of cars with faulty ignition switches.
Police officials told the AP the settlement formalized safeguards that were already in place, and it did not require the NYPD to admit any wrongdoing.
Dane Chiolino is professor of law at Loyola University, New Orleans and he told the BBC the settlement was "a show of good faith".
Before the vote, Elkin told the pro-settlement news website Arutz Sheva: "I hope the [legislators] will understand that this is a battle between Zionism and the new left".
In New York, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, told the Security Council, "All settlement activity is illegal, but inserting settlers into Palestinian neighborhoods in Jerusalem is particularly troubling".
A spokesman for the Department of Home Affairs told the Guardian that settlement priorities for Australia's humanitarian program, including the Community Support Program, are determined each year by the government.
Robert A. Swift, a lawyer in Philadelphia who helped negotiate the settlement, told the court Monday that the agreement was a compromise.
At the Nov. 20 hearing, John H. Anderson, a lawyer for the bank, told the judge that the settlement talks had failed.
Susan Tolchin, deputy county executive, told the legislators that the settlement allowed a monitor to adjust deadlines, locations and even the number of units if local zoning or property prices prove to be barriers.
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke told the Commons that the settlement was "significant", but had the cases gone to court, it would have cost taxpayers up to £50m.
