Releasing Persons means Plaintiff, all Settlement Class Members, and anyone claiming through them such as heirs, next-of-kin, administrators, executors, personal representatives, successors, and assigns.
Releasing Parties means Plaintiffs and all Settlement Class Members, and each of their respective executors, representatives, heirs, predecessors, assigns, beneficiaries, successors, bankruptcy trustees, guardians, joint tenants, tenants in common, tenants by entireties, agents, attorneys, and all those who claim through them or on their behalf.
Released Persons means each and all of the Defendants and their Related Parties.
Releasing Party has the meaning set forth in Section 7.9.
Releasors means Plaintiffs, Class Members and their respective past, present 15 and future parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, 16 attorneys, servants, representatives (and as applicable each of their past, present, 17 and future officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys, servants, and 18 representatives), and the predecessors, successors, heirs, executors, 19 administrators, and representatives of each of the foregoing.
Released Parties means Defendant and its present and former subsidiaries, parents, affiliates, divisions, officers, directors, members, managers, shareholders, insurers, suppliers, manufacturers, re-sellers, distributors, brokers, service providers, employees, agents, legal representatives, heirs, predecessors, successors, or assigns.
Company Released Parties means the Company and any of its past or present employees, agents, insurers, attorneys, administrators, officials, directors, shareholders, divisions, parents, members, subsidiaries, affiliates, predecessors, successors, employee benefit plans, and the sponsors, fiduciaries, or administrators of the Company’s employee benefit plans.
Seller Released Parties has the meaning set forth in Section 6.7(b).
Released PAGA Claims means the claims being released as described in Paragraph 6.2 below.
Released Plaintiff Parties means the Plaintiffs, each and every Class Member, Plaintiffs’ Counsel, and each of their respective past or present trustees, officers, directors, partners, employees, contractors, auditors, principals, agents, attorneys, predecessors, successors, assigns, insurers, parents, subsidiaries, general or limited partners or partnerships, and limited liability companies; and the spouses, members of the immediate families, representatives, and heirs of any Released Plaintiff Party who is an individual, as well as any trust of which any Released Plaintiff Party is the settlor or which is for the benefit of any of their immediate family members. Released Plaintiff Parties does not include any Person who timely and validly sought exclusion from the Class.
Released Plaintiffs Claims” means all claims, debts, demands, rights, or causes of action of every nature and description, whether known claims or Unknown Claims, whether arising under federal, state, local, statutory, common, or foreign law, that Lead Plaintiffs or any other member of the Settlement Class asserted in the Complaint or could have asserted in any forum that arise out of or are based upon those allegations, transactions, facts, matters or occurrences, representations or omissions involved, set forth, or referred to in the Complaint that occurred prior to the collapse of the Fundão Dam on November 5, 2015 and that relate to the purchase or acquisition of Vale common or preferred ADRs during the Class Period. For the avoidance of doubt, Released Plaintiffs’ Claims do not include: (i) any claims relating to the enforcement of the Settlement; and (ii) any claims of any person or entity who or which submits a request for exclusion that is accepted by the Court.
Released Entities means released entities as such term is defined
Released Claims means all Released Defendants’ Claims and all Released Plaintiffs’ Claims.
Released Defendant Parties means Defendants, Defendants’ Counsel, and each of their respective past or present direct or indirect subsidiaries, parents, affiliates, principals, successors and predecessors, assigns, officers, directors, shareholders, trustees, partners, agents, fiduciaries, contractors, employees, attorneys, auditors, insurers; the spouses, members of the immediate families, representatives, and heirs of the Individual Defendants, as well as any trust of which any Individual Defendant is the settlor or which is for the benefit of any of their immediate family members; any firm, trust, corporation, or entity in which any Defendant has a controlling interest; and any of the legal representatives, heirs, successors in interest or assigns of Defendants.
Settling Defendants means Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, as well as their subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, and directors named in a National Settlement Agreement.
Releasees means each and any of the Defendants’ Releasees and each and any of the Plaintiffs’ Releasees.
Released Defendants Claims” means all claims and causes of action of every nature and description, whether known claims or Unknown Claims, whether arising under federal, state, common or foreign law, that arise out of or relate in any way to the institution, prosecution, or settlement of the claims asserted in the Action against the Defendants. Released Defendants’ Claims do not include any claims relating to the enforcement of the Settlement or any claims against any person or entity who or which submits a request for exclusion from the Settlement Class that is accepted by the Court.
Released Party means collectively, and in each case in its capacity as such: