Jonathan Chasan, a staff lawyer for the society, said the city had made progress on correcting some of the issues raised in the longstanding lawsuit.

The road to the hearing before Judge Robert Maloney, who will consider investors' objections to the settlement of a longstanding lawsuit, began in October.

Then came word that Crédit Lyonnais, the big French bank, agreed to pay $450 million to settle a longstanding lawsuit in California.

He also confirmed that Oglethrope has had a longstanding lawsuit with the Internal Revenue Service over its accounting practices for spare parts.

The appeal was the latest move in the longstanding lawsuit, after a lower court ruled that Albany was shortchanging city schools by at least $4.7 billion a year.

Shareholders agreed to drop their longstanding lawsuits claiming that DWG was raided and stripped.

And tobacco stocks got a lift after the government said it was open to negotiating a settlement in its longstanding lawsuit against tobacco companies.

Texaco said it would settle a longstanding lawsuit with Louisiana by including an unusual promise to invest $152 million in the state's battered energy industry.

Moreover, the lake is involved in a longstanding lawsuit between Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.