No shareholder will be paid before any other shareholder. That would be highly illegal, and this company has a fiduciary duty to each and every shareholder to distribute any settlement equally on a per share basis. Whether that distribution comes in the form of a dividend or in the form of reinvestment in the company is up in the air at this point, although all indicators point to a dividend. When it happens, every share will be an equal winner.
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