A federal judge has signed off on a $2.64 million settlement between the state and 75 plaintiffs who have contended for nearly 20 years that state police used excessive force to break up a tax demonstration on Onondaga Indian territory in 1997.

The stipulation of settlement and discontinuance in Jones v. Parmley, 98-cv-374, contains no admission that the New York State Police who quelled the protest south of Syracuse deprived demonstrators of their constitutional or statutory rights.

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