Lawyers William Taylor III and Amit Mehta said in a statement on Friday that reports of a settlement were "flatly false".

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Respondent Oppenheimer filed a Third-Party Statement of Claim, which alleged among other causes of action, breach of settlement agreement, fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation, and unjust enrichment.

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Kathy Patrick, the lawyer for the institutional investors who negotiated the massive settlement, is behind three new legal filings made in federal courts, including a statement in support of the deal that points out that the vast majority of investors in soured mortgage-backed securities issued by Countrywide Financial through 530 trusts have chosen not to object to the settlement.

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"In the wake of this large settlement, we can say definitively that we have learned from the past, " its statement said.

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If fashioning an open-ended, one-sentence mission statement is all it takes top earn cy pres settlement approval in our court, we have completely eviscerated the meaning of our previously controlling case law.

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The Commission statement affirmed that, based on the extensive investigation of the staff, there is a strong reason to believe that the settlement is in the public interest, and that the Order's provisions make clear that Facebook will be liable for a broad range of deceptive conduct.

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The latest evidence: TIME has learned that Abington was rebuked by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for his statement, quoted in the New York Times May 21, that Israel's settlement expansion in the occupied territories is "ideologically driven" rather than based on natural growth and a demand for housing.

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