11.   A similar lawsuit was filed by Whirlpool and Inglis against Maytag Corp. and its Canadian subsidiary Maytag Ltd.

12.   A similar lawsuit was filed in New York by the Libertarian Party.

13.   About a dozen similar lawsuits have been filed nationwide, and Srikantiah said the ACLU is still receiving similar complaints about recent actions.

14.   After similar lawsuits last year, CyberPromotions agreed to stop spamming members of America Online Inc. and CompuServe Corp.

15.   Britton said he was unaware of any other similar lawsuits against Pacific Bell, a subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. of San Antonio.

16.   But the Philadelphia case was also being closely watched by legal experts for its impact on similar lawsuits around the country.

17.   Chevron still faces a similar lawsuit filed in a federal court in Kansas by a group of state governments.

18.   Codelco filed a similar lawsuit in Florida State Court in Miami in December seeking to freeze the funds in those accounts.

19.   Dunlap and Kersh face a similar lawsuit by Sunbeam shareholders.

20.   Earlier New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani filed a similar lawsuit.