21.   The investors are suing the law firms as well as Schick.

22.   The measure would have made it easier for investors to sue companies whose profit forecasts prove wrong and to hold corporate directors liable in fraud cases.

23.   The new Congress and the regulators may also collide on the issue of when and how investors may sue when they believe they have been defrauded in securities transactions.

24.   The measure would make it harder for investors to sue by offering new defenses for executives and their advisers.

25.   They contend that too many investors are suing companies when their stocks plunge in value after sales or profit figures do not meet the optimistic forecasts of company executives.

26.   Three years later, the consortium defaulted on an interest payment on those notes, and the investors sued in federal court in New York.

27.   Voters in California rejected a measure that would have made it easier for investors to sue public companies for fraud in state court.

28.   When investors sue a company that restated earnings, they sometimes sue the auditor as well.

29.   Investors sued the company and those lawsuits are still being pursued in U.S. District Court in Des Moines.

30.   And in this litigation-prone country, firms complain that some investors will sue if their stocks drop sharply in price.