Settlement structure can be engineered to launder a guilty verdict.

Evidence

A new trial would make it look as if Grace wasn’t really guilty. They could even have the families say to the press that Beatrice and chemical companies in north Woburn were responsible for the contamination of the wells. — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 2622

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the private-arbitration secrecy material: real disputes resolved in forms the public never fully learns, with reputation rather than truth as the object.
• SHARE: Nerd bait for someone who litigates or reads legal history: plaintiffs’ counsel consenting to vacate his own jury win as a settlement sweetener.