"How can anyone take a settlement when they don't know what's going to happen?" he said.
The Courier News agreed, and called Christie "a disaster on the environment" for taking a settlement from $225m ExxonMobil over a pollution case.
He didn't take a settlement and sign a non-disclosure agreement but, rather, spoke out some more, and sufficiently endeared himself to the city that he was elected to a couple of terms as president of the City Council.
In a hearing on Friday it emerged that the Conservative MP could have avoided the huge legal bill he has now been hit with if he had taken a settlement two months before the case started.
Sheppard was sent out as a parish apprentice to a cane-chair maker, taking a settlement of 20 shillings, but his new master soon died.
In December 2011, the year after the movie was released and shortly after the real-life twins took a $65m settlement from Facebook, the Winklevoss twins, who have come to be known as the Winklevii, decided not to try out for the London 2012 Olympic games.
According to The New York Times, the actress took a $100,000 settlement from the producer in 1997 as one of Weinstein's alleged victims.
Yet he went to a Sun party at Wapping on the night of one sacking, wrote a lucrative column for the News of the World ( later killed off by Murdoch in a bid to rescue his BSkyB deal), and quietly took a sizeable (£300,000?) settlement when it was confirmed his phone had been hacked.
At one point, both sides agree, Disney offered to take the entire Disney Channel issue off the table and simply take a cash settlement for the rights to carry ABC's stations.
While some homeowners may be required under the terms of their mortgages to rebuild their homes, Ms. Mack said, many others will be free to take a cash settlement and walk away.
