Judge: Decision won't come quickly
Yahoo | at | by Mike
At the conclusion of a daylong hearing here, Judge Colleen Kollar- Kotelly of Federal District Court said the case's many complexities required her to spend time examining all the issues and that her decision would not be imminent.
"It's an important and complex case to which I am going to give careful and thoughtful attention before I render my decision," she said. "There's a lot to digest."
But her questions mostly involved relatively minor aspects of the settlement, and the fact that she did not ask a single question of any of the lawyers opposed to the deal seemed to suggest that she would ultimately approve it. The deal was reached only after she had ordered the lawyers to engage in mediation.