21.   A potential landmark dispute about the boundaries of affirmative action formally ended today when the U.S. Supreme Court dropped the case from its docket.

22.   A settlement would be a startling turnabout for drug industry officials here, who were insisting earlier Tuesday that they would not drop the case.

23.   A year later, prosecutors dropped their case against Rothstein without saying why.

24.   After unsuccessfully challenging the independent counsel law, the prosecutor, Alexia Morrison, dropped the case.

25.   After the two bankers were ultimately acquitted on some of the charges, prosecutors agreed to drop the case.

26.   But former department advocates, who bring administrative cases against officers, said department officials settle or drop cases without any administrative hearing.

27.   But Kansas City, Kan., police detectives considered her death suspicious and refused to drop the case.

28.   But the case was dropped and we have reconciled.

29.   But the office has given no indication that it intends to drop the case now that Adobe has pulled out.

30.   But the case was eventually dropped for lack of evidence, he said, weeks after the national spotlight had shifted from Philadelphia.