91.   The U.S. company eventually left empty-handed after the sale of the nonwoven-fiber unit was backed by the Swiss takeover commission and a civil court.

92.   The U.S. Department of Justice, which is investigating the tobacco industry, dispatched one of its criminal fraud attorneys to a civil court hearing yesterday in Minnesota.

93.   The story presents both Schlichtmann and the civil court system as stubbornly complicated.

94.   The use of civil courts to seek retribution is finding favor.

95.   The Texas Supreme Court never has determined whether those who violate the criminal law also can be sued in civil court.

96.   The tribunals, they say, assume that procedures used in civil courts or military courts-martial would be inadequate to handle such cases.

97.   There are numerous civil court investigations stemming from a host of class-action suits filed by shareholders, former employees and retirees.

98.   Their patients could sue them in civil court for damages even if the patients had requested the procedure.

99.   These tribunals, not yet convened, lack the same rights of appeal and standards of proof as the civil courts.