21.   After settling the suit, the brokerage firm began posting the redistributions internally via computer so everyone would know who got which accounts.

22.   After spending seven years in court and several million dollars in legal fees and expenses, Buchwald and his attorneys settled his suit last year.

23.   All the suits were eventually settled.

24.   All three class-action suits have been settled, he said.

25.   Brooke settled the suit, and LeBow contended that all transactions between himself and the company had been approved by its board.

26.   But he added that the city was prepared to work quickly to try to settle the suit with that company or any other manufacturer.

27.   But it has settled other suits.

28.   But without raising any First Amendment issues at all, Congress can properly agree to settle the suits by the state attorneys general in exchange for voluntary advertising controls.

29.   By then, many of the companies had met with figures in the gun control movement in efforts to head off or settle suits.

30.   Caldera Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced Monday that they had settled a suit that had accused Microsoft of anticompetitive practices.