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BumRushDaShow

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10. Usually settlements have to get court approval

Reply to nuxvomica (Reply #9)

Mon Jun 23, 2025, 10:35 AM

Jun 23

So it could have been negotiated and announced in 2013 but took some time to finalize with the courts afterwards, and by then, Abbott got in (that election was in 2014 and he probably took over in January 2015)... where he torpedoed the thing.

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Also Diamond_Dog Jun 23 #7

Am ballparking it but I think that was done back when Perry was governor BumRushDaShow Jun 23 #8

If the settlement came out in 2013, it was Perry nuxvomica Jun 23 #9

Usually settlements have to get court approval BumRushDaShow Jun 23 #10

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