Daniel Girard, one of the lawyers for the Chinese-American pupils, said the settlement gave the control of schools back to the population of San Francisco.
As part of a legal settlement to regain control of 3322.org, founder Peng Yong has given assurances that he will work with Microsoft and China's central computer security agency to limit abuse of the site's domains.
Witness the global tobacco settlement in 1998, which came after tobacco-control advocates tried, and failed, to get legislation through the U.S. Congress.
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However, investigations into the bank by other authorities including the Department of Justice and the Office of Foreign Assets Control continue, and "this lone settlement does not draw a line through the matter, " Symonds said.
The trick is lining up lead plaintiffs who lost enough in the crash to seize control of the litigation, at which point a settlement and lucrative fee is all but certain.
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The attorneys who specialize in takeover litigation are already at their computers cutting and pasting verbiage from lawsuits past to assemble cases they can race to the courthouse to get control, or at least a lucrative piece of, the inevitable settlement.
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The settlement is the latest development in the roller coaster saga over Microsoft's attempts to take control of the Web portal.
The settlement is the latest development in the roller coaster saga over Microsoft's attempts to take control of the Web portal and comes only days after Yahoo!
The school committee joined their side late last year, figuring an investment trust would likely pay out better yields than a land trust that has to deal with erosion control and other improvements, in addition to the litigation that would restart if the settlement isn't improved.
Some control procedures appear to have been predictable, being timed to take place shortly before the settlement date of futures contracts.
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