The settlement also included a provision that securities firms erect a firewall separating analysts from investment-banking operations.

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Pension officials, seeking both to avoid public embarrassment related to hiring the rogue manager and a speedy way to recoup fund losses that are difficult to quantify, agree to the settlement offer and confidentiality provision.

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Stephen Meister, attorney for the investor group that tried to block the settlement, said the buyout provision violates the law.

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The major provision of the 2009 settlement was the county's agreement to build or acquire 750 units of affordable housing, mostly in white areas, and market them to non-whites in the region.

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Virtually every lawsuit settlement these days has a non-disclosure provision.

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The tobacco firms are threatening to challenge the inflation-adjustment provision in the courts because they say it is not part of the national settlement agreement.

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Also included is a new Department of Defense (DOD) General Provision that would authorize the Secretary of the Navy to receive and retain payment in-kind for the settlement of the longstanding A-12 aircraft contract litigation.

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