was expressly raised at the oral allocution of the

                    settlement by Judge Heitler. And plaintiff acknowledged

                    to Judge Heitler, both plaintiffs, that they understood

                    confidentiality provision, which was expressly

                    articulated in the release document.

                           Despite all of that, 3 months later they

                    sought to vacate the settlement in a motion made before

                    Judge Heitler, where they raised the issue of their

                    lawyer’s alleged coercion and duress.

                          They claimed, they did not understand that

                    they had to have confidentiality. They claimed, that

                    they did not understand that they had to dismantle the

                    web site. They claimed, that they believed that the

                    hospital would give them a half a million dollars and

                    allow them to continue to make out accusations of wrong

                    doing against the hospital in that web site. They

                    claimed, they didn’t really want to settle.

                         And Judge Heitler examined that decision.

                         In addition, in that motion to vacate the

                    settlement they also sought to vacate the attorneys

                    fees.  In conjunction with both of those applications

                    Judge Heitler denied the motion to vacate the

                    settlement, expressly acknowledged that the settlement

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