Federico v. Ragusa’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “Black’s Law Dictionary II defines ‘settle’ to mean reaching an agreement In the context of Rule 64 (c) (4), ‘settle’ means that the appellant be given the opportunity to agree to the trial judge’s proposed deletions or additions to the report... To the extent appellants refuse to modify the report in accordance with the trial judge’s proposed deletions, additions, or changes with respect to form, these specific deletions, additions, or directions should be incorporated by the trial judge in his findings and reasons for disallowance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Diletizia v. Merowitz