11.   In return, tobacco companies would be given virtual legal immunity in the future.

12.   Legislators in both parties, like Kent Conrad, D-N.C.,, and Judd Gregg, R-N.H., oppose any legal immunity.

13.   Providing cigarette makers with future legal immunity could prevent some Senate Democrats from backing tobacco legislation, the chairman of the Senate Democratic tobacco task force said today.

14.   The court will try to clarify whether prosecutors can use documents against defendants who are required to produce them under a limited grant of legal immunity.

15.   The law toughened the procedural rules for investors and gave executives legal immunity for making questionable financial projections.

16.   The government party is trying to strip him of the legal immunity from prosecution that he is granted automatically by being a federal legislator.

17.   The industry has long sought protection from lawsuits and abandoned its negotiations with Congress this spring after deciding that lawmakers would not give it sufficient legal immunity.

18.   The measure requiring tribes to waive legal immunity in exchange for federal funds is not only discriminatory but profoundly ahistorical.

19.   The question of legal immunity has loomed large in internal debates among opposition members over whether to boycott the assembly, said one member, Ahmad Yahya.

20.   Two former health officials, backed by prominent public groups, urged lawmakers Tuesday to approve sweeping anti-tobacco legislation that does not include legal immunity for the industry.