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    :: Friday, September 12, 2003 ::

    Nike settles free speech case with $1.5M payment to labour rights group By WILLIAM MCCALL
    BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) - Nike Inc. has agreed to pay $1.5 million US to a worker rights group to settle the free speech case that it took to the U.S. Supreme Court.
    'The two parties mutually agreed that investments designed to strengthen workplace monitoring and factory worker programs are more desirable than prolonged litigation,' Nike said in a release Friday.
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