Pursuant to the terms of the Settlement Agreement, defendants McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. (formerly known as The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.) and Standard and Poor's Financial Services, LLC (collectively "defendants") have filed a withdrawal of defendants' Eleventh Affirmative Defense, which asserted defendants' claim that the United States filed this action in retaliation for Standard and Poor's Ratings Services' 2011 decisions to place on credit watch negative and subsequently downgrade the credit rating of the United States.
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