Before a case can go to trial, discussions take place for settlement out of court.

The parties reached a settlement out of court, and the case was dismissed with prejudice.

Previous settlements out of court have been much smaller.

The dispute ended in a settlement out of court.

Rarely do libel cases involving Eye go to settlements out of court.

The orchestra dropped its case in 1994 when the two parties reached an undisclosed settlement out of court.

Other cases have resulted in major settlements out of court and big reductions in pollution.

Talon attempted to establish a method of settlement out of court.

A later financial settlement out of court meant that Volkswagen agreed to abstain from a planned lawsuit.

The two sides then reached a settlement out of court that gave Kmart its commercials and the agency its money.

On March 8, 2005, the day before initial hearings were scheduled to begin, both parties negotiated a settlement out of court, ending the litigation.

Google and Microsoft reached a settlement out of court on December 22, 2005, the terms of which are confidential.

In November 2010, the British Government announced that it had reached a financial settlement out of court with several men, including Begg.

Following a settlement out of court, "Collide" was released crediting both Lewis and Avicii.

But the police officers' club that employed Mr. Andrade pressed him to drop his suit or accept a cash settlement out of court, he says.

This resulted in payment of back wages and led to similar cases in several other states, often ending in confidential settlements out of court.

Approximately ten days prior to the trial, my solicitors and the Strathclyde Police solicitors agreed an amicable financial settlement out of court.

The previous highest award a court has made for breach of privacy was £5,000, although there have been several cases of higher settlements out of court.

Peltier dropped the lawsuit against News From Indian Country shortly after Looking Cloud's trial, with a settlement out of court.

On completion of this album, Lynne dismissed bass guitarist Groucutt, who later sued for alleged lost royalties and received a settlement out of court.

Deming and OU later reached a settlement out of court, with Deming transferring to the College of Arts and Sciences.

Rather than go to court, and fuel a scandal for the media, Masters and Johnson made a legal settlement out of court and, after that, simply gave up the practice of using surrogates.

Ms. Vedin, a real-estate appraiser in Burbank, Calif., brought a product liability suit against Johnson & Johnson, and she and the company made a confidential settlement out of court.

It is only fair to add that some lawyers play exactly the opposite role, persuading clients who are itching for a zero sum fight that they would do better to reach a nonzero sum settlement out of court.

A18 Settlement in Study Death The family of Ellen Roche, a 24-year-old lab worker who died while participating in a Johns Hopkins University asthma study, was said to have reached a settlement out of court.