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Originally Posted by tompe
I have always understood that you do not agree to wrong doing when settling. You settle because you think the odds are to bad and loosing will cost more.
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Probably depends on the specifics of each settlement.
In this case, perhaps they agreed because the cost of a full court case outweighs even the benefit of winning as you're not always guaranteed to be awarded costs when you win. They may also feel that the PR fallout from fighting the case isn't worth it.
Of course they may also feel that they did collude and just want out or that whilst they didn't collude the evidence still suggests they did and it'd be hard to argue otherwise?