This was the case with the Cree over the massive James Bay hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec, the Innu over the Voisey's Bay nickel mine in Labrador, the Inuit over diamond mines in the Northwest Territories, and the 1999 creation of the new territory of Nunavut, the largest land-claim settlement in Canadian history.
Irwin Mitchell said the council had now agreed to pay her a five-figure sum in settlement of her claim for damages for her pain and suffering, loss of earnings and ongoing psychotherapy.
Instead, the court applied the long-standing principle that it is the origin of the claim, rather than the consequences to the taxpayer from a failure to defeat the claim, that drives whether a settlement payment is a deductible business expense.
Given the trivial size of their claim, few victims pay attention to settlement bargaining.
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Mr Bullock's lawyer, Jill Greenfield, said the compensation or the actual claim value cannot be revealed because the settlement was arrived at in a private hearing.
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Dr Marek has based his election campaign on fighting for better public services, a properly-funded fire service and a settlement of the firefighters' pay claim.
Some companies now claim they can negotiate a one-time settlement with all of your creditors that will reduce your principal by as much as 50 to 70 percent.
The judge is well aware of the controversy she will cause by quickly agreeing to a proposed settlement, which Microsoft's rivals claim will allow the world's biggest software firm to continue to throw its weight around.
He says the company would honor the terms of the settlement that covers damage to natural resources if a legitimate claim was made.
He also rejected the banks' arguments that trade settlement failures do not create phantom shares, a central claim of the anti-naked short selling camp.
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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What ensued was an enlightening analysis by the Tax Court regarding what drives the deductibility of a corporate settlement payment: the consequences or the origin of the claim.
In April, an appeals court ruled that the ConnectU partners had to live with a settlement they struck with Facebook in 2008 to resolve their claim that Mr. Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social network for Harvard students.
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Optimists claim that the deterioration in security in Colombia is a prelude to a lasting settlement, as each side battles to improve its negotiating position.
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Mr. Hurd reached a private settlement in August with Ms. Fisher after which she said her initial claim contained inaccuracies, which she didn't specify.
When added to the mix of other issues, the Appeals Officer determined that a compromise settlement would be appropriate in order to reflect the merits of the innocent spouse claim and the hazards of litigation.
The claim in the Massachusetts court is that Facebook should have disclosed those communications when they put together their original settlement.
To the annoyance of many developing countries, which claim these payments help to finance their telephone networks, the Federal Communications Commission plans to impose price caps on settlement payments from 1999.
Mr. MARK BOUDREAUX (Exxon Spokesman): To date no claim has been submitted and a reopener claim could be put forth only if it's been demonstrated based on science that the conditions of the settlement agreement have been met.
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