11.   B.A.T Industries Plc Chief Executive Martin Broughton said the cigarette maker would consider paying damages to smokers if that would end mounting legal claims against the industry.

12.   All these tactics, it seems, had their incubation during the years McLaren was harassing his neighbors with legal claims, usually on property adjacent to his own.

13.   A Qantas spokeswoman said the company would defend any legal claim, but declined further comment.

14.   A prosecutor responded by trying to have the judge thrown off the case, and by pursuing charges based on new legal claims.

15.   A top priority in the hearing will be to address the legal claim by the group of counties and hospital districts, Sanchez said.

16.   According to lawyers involved in the case, it is the first time such a legal claim has been raised.

17.   Breuer said in a recent interview that U.S. regulators have granted Deutsche immunity from any further legal claims relating to the funds diversion.

18.   But even if Worth made the wrong decision, he said, Schwarz probably does not have a legal claim of ineffective counsel.

19.   But if the event proceeds, he said, the possibility remains that buyers of certain material could face later legal claims.

20.   Butler had people with legal claims to more than a million dollars.