Both sides in the dispute were ordered to attend a pre-trial settlement conference on 7 November.
The family of another man killed in the restraint chair got $8.25 million in a pre-trial settlement.
In pre-trial settlement talks, Oracle had suggested that Google should pay a small percentage of ongoing Android revenues in settlement of another part of the trial dispute, in which Oracle claims its patents have been infringed.
In a pre-trial settlement offer, Google proposed that it would pay Oracle a percentage of revenues from Android, suggesting it would pay $2.8m in damages on the two remaining patents that Oracle is asserting for the period to 2011, and then 0.5% of ongoing Android revenue on one patent which expires this December, and 0.015% on another which expires in April 2018.
And for the record, a court did not force the divestiture: it was the product of a mid-trial settlement in 1982, in which the Justice Department granted the deregulated AT&T long-distance company the right to go into the computer business.
Other Texas-specific studies include Friedson and Kniesner [29], who examine how the reform – specifically the non-economic damages cap – has affected pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts.
In a pre-trial settlement Veitch pleaded guilty to one charge of reckless disregard causing injury.
Part of the pre-trial settlement of the class action lawsuit included a baseline survey, the C8 Health Project, conducted in 2005 2006, that gathered data from > 69,000 persons from six contaminated water districts surrounding the plant (Frisbee et al. 2009).
After pre-trial settlements, there were still 5,000 plaintiffs when the trial began.
The four major networks sued Dish over the automatic copying, commercial-skipping and remote-viewing features of the Hoppers, but most reached pre-trial settlements in which Dish agreed to roll back some of the commercial-skipping functions.
