21.   In an interview, McDermott acknowledged that, under the law, members are protected from defamation suits over remarks they make on the House and Senate floor.

22.   In the last month, the rival parties have filed eight defamation suits against each other.

23.   Last month the Wildensteins won a defamation suit against the French weekly magazine VSD.

24.   Kim Un-yong noted that his son had won a defamation suit related to the Salt Lake City episode in a Korean court.

25.   One defamation suit has been settled, three are pending and at least one more has been threatened.

26.   Philip Winters and Craig Copher, volunteer coaches for the Kettering Wee Wildcats, have brought the defamation suit against seven other parents and organization officials.

27.   R.J. Reynolds, the tobacco arm of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., said it also agreed to discontinue its defamation suit against the network.

28.   Smith countered with a defamation suit.

29.   The company filed a defamation suit against several lawyers who had sued it for antitrust violations on behalf of consumers.

30.   The defamation suit against three advisers of Tawana Brawley began Tuesday in the same angry, racially charged vein that surrounded the Brawley case a decade ago.