After a judge tossed a $283 million damages award they won against rival Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), the satellite design company ViaSat Inc. and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan have opted to cut a deal rather than face another jury.

SS/L’s former parent company, Loral Space & Communications Inc., announced on Saturday that it and SS/L have agreed to pay a combined $100 million to ViaSat over two and a half years to resolve claims that SS/L breached a nondisclosure agreement with ViaSat and infringed its patents.

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