1.   And Chief Judge Walter Colbath asked staff lawyers to see whether the five circuit suits filed so far are similar enough to be combined into a single case.

2.   AOL said that because the suit was a nationally certified, it expected the settlement to end any other class-action suits filed on the same basis.

3.   A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers found that more than half of the securities class action suits filed last year contained allegations of improper accounting.

4.   A U.S. District Court judge dismissed a suit filed under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by three New Jersey residents against tobacco companies and an industry group.

5.   But the suit filed last week marks the first time Iron Mountain alleges its director and former president, J. Peter Pierce, is also involved in Sequedex.

6.   In addition, lawsuits have been filed throughout the country, including federal class-action suits filed in Chicago and Los Angeles.

7.   Included are instructions on how to use a bayonet, how to dig a foxhole and how to file a sexual harassment suit.

8.   Now Inso Corp. has actually found someone else to take the heat in a slew of shareholder suits filed against the Boston software company over restated financial results.

9.   Several lawyers close to the case said they believed that two class-action suits filed on behalf of foreign buyers and sellers had been holding up a resolution.

10.   That was the first tobacco damages suit filed in the country, one that greatly pleased consumer groups and greatly irked business groups.