1.   Accepting the award does not preclude a family from suing the airline but would be part of any settlement, he said.

2.   Allows consumers to sue airlines in state courts.

3.   Earlier this month, the Machinists union said it would sue the airline unless management stops plans to shrink TWA through asset sales and job cuts.

4.   For example, the World Trade Center insurers could sue the airlines, alleging that they should have prevented the attack.

5.   Li said he wants to sue the airline not because it is Japanese but because it treated Chinese passengers unfairly.

6.   Members of frequent-flier plans can sue airlines over retroactive changes in benefits that diminish the value of miles already accumulated, the Supreme Court ruled.

7.   Right to sue airlines in state courts.

8.   Suspecting they had been stolen, she sued the airline for negligence and infliction of emotional distress.

9.   The question is whether passengers can sue the airlines for breach of contract for making changes in frequent flier plans in ways that make accumulated miles less valuable.

10.   The two men were the first, and so far the only, accident victims to sue the airline over the signs.