21.   The same appeals court had used the same reasoning to let a suit proceed against Hughes.

22.   Their suit is proceeding as State Farm moves forward with its racketeering case.

23.   Trial courts statewide are bound by the ruling and will have to let similar suits proceed.

24.   Would the justices have let the Jones suit proceed if they had known it would produce the Flytrap circus?

25.   Allowing the suits to proceed would undermine the peace accord, the government said.

26.   But Okubo said the court has warned Votier that the suit will proceed in his absence if he continues to ignore court notices.

27.   Dr. Wade Exum said his original complaint contains enough evidence of wrongdoing to let the suit proceed.

28.   Their civil suit proceeds to trial in mid-May.

29.   But a suit can only proceed if defendants are served with legal papers while in the United States.