1.   Another closely watched civil rights case will decide whether collective bargaining agreements that provide for arbitration of conflicts bar individual lawsuits against an employer for discrimination.

2.   At the same time, its attorneys are busily engaged in settling individual lawsuits stemming from rollovers involving the failure of Firestone tires.

3.   Both state settlements are expected to be superseded by the proposed national agreement, which addresses not only state actions, but individual lawsuits.

4.   Both state settlements would be superseded by the proposed national agreement, which addresses not only state actions, but individual lawsuits as well.

5.   Both state settlements would be superseded by the proposed national agreement, which addresses not only state actions, but individual lawsuits.

6.   -- A disagreement about whether the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act allows individual federal lawsuits to recover the cost of cleaning up a contaminated site.

7.   Bristol-Myers, though, can withdraw if too many women reject the plan to pursue individual lawsuits.

8.   But for future individual lawsuits, the companies would create a fund that they would pay into year after year.

9.   But many other women declined to join the settlement, choosing to pursue individual lawsuits.

10.   Faced by its settlement obligations and individual lawsuits, the company saw no recourse but bankruptcy, Anderson said.