31.   Dozens of former Baxter students have been lobbying for more than two years for compensation or permission to sue the state.

32.   Finally, in April, a nonprofit group sued the state.

33.   Five white voters sued the state, however, charging that the plan violated their constitutional right to equal protection of the laws.

34.   Florida is suing the state to recoup Medicaid money spent treating smoking-related illnesses under the state-federal health-care plan for the poor.

35.   Ford has complied, but is suing the state to reverse the order.

36.   Ford sued the state for civil rights violations, malicious prosecution, abuse of process and defamation.

37.   Foster Wheeler said it planned to sue the state over the repeal.

38.   For their next term, the Justices have accepted a case on whether states can be sued by their employees for violations of the federal law against age discrimination.

39.   Gay couples in Massachusetts have sued the state for the right to marry.

40.   Goldman and Barzano later sued the state of Arizona.