In 2010 Congress passed the Claims Settlement Act of 2010, which provided $ 3. 4 billion for the settlement of the Cobell v. Salazar class-action trust case and four Indian water-rights cases.

TJX paid US $ 100 million settlement in California to settle an employee class-action suit in 2002 which alleged that Marshalls abused exempt / nonexempt classifications to avoid the payment of overtime or compensation time to employees in certain roles performing non-exempt job duties as required by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

As of July 1, 2010, Quiznos was close to reaching a settlement over the multiyear class-action lawsuit that covers nearly 10, 000 of its current and former franchisees.

In addition, on April 4, 2006 the MBTA announced the settlement of a class-action lawsuit, Joanne Daniels-Finegold, et al.

Unfortunately, the reputation of this generation was marred by a class-action settlement for an engine oil sludge problem which affected the V-6 engines in many Toyota models.

The class-action settlement offered discounts on the purchase of a new Nissan vehicle.

In 2008, Fastenal paid a $ 10 million settlement to a class-action lawsuit.

On February 9, 2007, a preliminary settlement in a class-action lawsuit against TracFone was approved in the Boone ( County ) Circuit Court in Kentucky.

One of Banzhaf's students, James Pizzirusso, successfully sued McDonald's in 2001 for precooking their French fries in beef fat and not warning vegetarians and beef-avoiders about it ; in 2002 he won a class-action settlement of $ 12. 5 million.

For example, abeyance was used as a settlement method in a Canadian lawsuit involving the University of Victoria Students ' Society ( UVSS ), the BCCLA, and a campus pro-life to whom the UVSS denied funding to.

His attorney Bob Bennett stated that he only made the settlement so he could end the lawsuit for good and move on with his life.

The protection offered by a liability insurance policy is twofold: a legal defense in the event of a lawsuit commenced against the policyholder and indemnification ( payment on behalf of the insured ) with respect to a settlement or court verdict.

DEC agreed to sell StrongARM to Intel as part of a lawsuit settlement in 1997.

Cagney eventually dropped his lawsuit after a cash settlement.

In the US state of California, Nutella's manufacturer Ferrero, was sued in a class action lawsuit and agreed to pay $ 3 million ( up to $ 4. 00 per jar in returns by customers ) in a settlement in which Nutella's misleading promotion led consumers to believe that Nutella carries nutritional and health benefits, marketing it as part of a nutritious breakfast.

Locke filed a palimony suit against Eastwood, then sued him a second time for fraud, regarding a phony directing contract he set up for her in settlement of the first lawsuit.

The Alameda County district attorney later dropped the case for lack of evidence, and in 2004 the FBI and the City of Oakland agreed to a $ 4 million settlement of a lawsuit brought by Bari's estate, and her friend, over their false arrest.

The intermeddling of recovery agents in the lawsuit also presents ethical problems to lawyers, who may have undermined impartiality in advising on settlement.

A subsequent lawsuit brought by the Canavan Foundation against the Miami Children's Hospital was resolved with a sealed out-of-court settlement.

Kevin Durant dunking against the Washington Wizards on March 11, 2011On July 2, 2008, upon settlement of a lawsuit with the city of Seattle, the Seattle SuperSonics announced they would relocate to Oklahoma City on July 3, and begin play at Oklahoma City's Ford Center in the 2008 – 2009 NBA season.

Norris did not take this tactic, dubbed as fear, uncertainty and doubt ( FUD ), lying down, and in an extensive antitrust lawsuit launched against IBM a year later, he eventually won a settlement valued at $ 80 million.

It was the largest racial discrimination lawsuit settlement in the U. S. at the time, and was particularly damaging to Texaco's public relations when tapes were released containing ethnic slurs used repeatedly by company officers at high-level corporate meetings.

This work was later passed to Intel as a part of a lawsuit settlement, and Intel took the opportunity to supplement their ageing i960 line with the StrongARM.

Ventura initially considered dropping the lawsuit, but several ex-Navy SEALs including the owner of McP's demanded that Ventura continue his lawsuit, which Ventura did after Kyle failed to agree on a settlement in which he would state the incident never happened.

On August 2, 1988, the plaintiff and defendants announced a settlement of the lawsuit, which included a Confidential Cross-License Agreement under which SEA licensed PKWARE for all the ARC-compatible programs published by PKWARE during the period beginning with the first release of PKXARC in late 1985 through July 31, 1988, in return for an undisclosed payment.

In 2007, controversy arose over CUP's decision to destroy all remaining copies of its 2006 book, Alms for Jihad: Charity and Terrorism in the Islamic World, by Burr and Collins, as part of the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz.

This film, financed partly by Moore's mortgaging of his home and partly by the settlement money from a lawsuit he filed against Mother Jones for wrongful termination, was meant to be a personal statement over his anger not just at GM, but also the economic policies and social attitudes of the United States government during the Reagan era, which allows a corporation to remove the largest source of income from an entire town.

His lawsuit against the school district and several administrators ended in a 2002 settlement in which the district agreed to create a series of policies to protect gay and lesbian students and to pay Henkle $ 451, 000.

The referendum that ended the town was part of the settlement in a lawsuit brought by city residents charging the city should be dissolved because it didn't deliver enough services to justify its existence under state law.

Legal financing can be a practical means for litigants to obtain financing while they wait for a monetary settlement or an award in their personal injury, workers ' compensation, or civil rights lawsuit.

A $ 246 billion settlement was made by tobacco companies with Mississippi and other States in their lawsuit and that Wigand lives in South Carolina.

Sperry got the rights to " clone " the 360 as settlement of a lawsuit concerning IBM's infringement of Remington Rand's core memory patents.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

The settlement was called Shawomet.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

It was the low yield of the Selkirk plots and the ravages of grasshoppers in 1818 that led to the dispersal of the settlement southward.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

For its part the Hudson's Bay Company was troubled by the approach of American settlement.

* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

Achill has a long history of human settlement and there is evidence that Achill was inhabited as many as 5, 000 years ago.

Prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

The dispute was referred to Emperor Charles V and other princes, but as no settlement was reached Albert continued his efforts to obtain help in view of a renewal of the war.

As administrator of the Diocese of Hereford, he was involved in fighting against the Welsh, suffering two defeats at the hands of raiders before securing a settlement with Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, a Welsh ruler.

After the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, the Ark remained in the Tabernacle at Gilgal for a season before being removed to Shiloh until the time of Eli, between 300 and 400 years ( Jeremiah 7: 12 ), when it was carried into the field of battle, so as to secure, as they had hoped, victory to the Hebrews.

The name " Queen's College " was denied to the Baptist school, so it was renamed " Acadia College " in 1841, in reference to the history of the area as an Acadian settlement.

LDS Apostle Orson Pratt declared that " Ahman ", part of the name of the settlement " Adam-ondi-Ahman " in Daviess County, Missouri, was the name of God in the Adamic language.

In 1835, the Albion Company, a land development company formed by Jesse Crowell, platted a village and Peabody's wife was asked to name the settlement.

However the first mention of a city sized settlement was in 1256.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

During 1823 – 1931 the grown settlement was known as Ust-Abakanskoye, 1914 – 1925: Abakan, 1925 – 1931: Khakassk.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.