21.   But Senior Assistant City Attorney John Fisher said the settlement is a good deal because U.S. District Judge Sim Lake has refused to dismiss the lawsuit.

22.   But the U.S. District Court for Eastern Louisiana dismissed the lawsuit before trial, ruling that Title VII does not prohibit same-gender sexual harassment.

23.   Carson Pirie also said it plans to dismiss a lawsuit filed against Younkers challenging the reinstatement of Gould.

24.   Circuit Judge Betty B. Fletcher wrote in the opinion that the lower court judge erred in dismissing the lawsuit.

25.   DAIMLER FILES MOTION TO DISMISS SUIT DaimlerChrysler filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit by Kirk Kerkorian, the corporate raider who once tried to buy Chrysler.

26.   Dallas attorney Charles Frazier Jr., representing the doctors, countered that the lower courts correctly dismissed the lawsuit because it was filed too late.

27.   Court records show that the defamation lawsuit was dismissed last week.

28.   Earlier this month, senior U.S. District Judge Lucius D. Bunton III rejected arguments by the defendants that the lawsuit should be dismissed.

29.   Drescher filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuits that are scheduled to be heard by U.S. District Judge Robert Kelleher on Monday.

30.   Fidelity asked a U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns in Boston to dismiss the lawsuit and a hearing was held today.