I'd like to know what attempts they made in that time period to 'not suffer' meaning exactly what was said by Amazon's attorneys by way of a potential settlemen

I'd like to know what attempts they made in that time period to 'not suffer' meaning exactly what was said by Amazon's attorneys by way of a potential settlement. Nice they fought 'till the bitter end' (and apparently from what is conveyed they won) but not only do we not know the true exact story we won't. Entirely possible they could have avoided that suffering (if you want to call it that).