1.   The company was ordered to pay punitive damages in a sex discrimination case.

2.   Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension.

3.   Judge Hill has been criticised for his handling of another alleged child sex case, it was disclosed later.

4.   Social workers and doctors who wrongly diagnose sex abuse cases cannot be sued for their mistakes, the High Court ruled last week.

5.   Bernard King was arrested in a sex case, he recalled.

6.   A federal grand jury indicted Dwyer and Laird in January on the sex case, and he was released on bond.

7.   A federal judge approved a revised settlement Friday of the sex discrimination case at Smith Barney Inc.

8.   A federal judge Friday approved an out-of-court settlement in a threatened sex discrimination case against the CIA.

9.   But some legal experts said that it is not clear that the law can be invoked in the sex abuse cases.

10.   But the outcries of children involved in that sensational sex case continue to echo today.