1.   Among the companion damage suits in Florida are some that highlight the harm flowing from one bad foster home, that of a couple in Hillsborough County.

2.   Bennett also maintained that a Supreme Court decision allowing the Jones suit to proceed would prompt a flurry of private damages suits against the president.

3.   Before last January, courts had ruled that the international Warsaw Convention on airline liability governed KAL damage suits, and permitted non-economic damages.

4.   Benz said the committee would continue with its damage suit for trademark violation.

5.   A victory for the manufacturers would have had the effect of barring all private damage suits for such injuries, in any court.

6.   But all parties agree that better reporting of minor mishaps could leave airlines open to huge damage suits if similar mishaps were shown later to contribute to crashes.

7.   But the possibility of damage suits is very unlikely to deter wrongful police conduct.

8.   Changes to the rules governing damage suits have been a political issue for at least two decades.

9.   Consequently, a victory for the manufacturers would have had the effect of barring all private damage suits, in any court.

10.   Even in states already operating under sweeping settlements, damage suits are playing a more prominent role.