21.   CBS settled by apologizing to Westmoreland, who then dropped his suit.

22.   Charter dropped its suit, and pledged to redouble its efforts to upgrade its existing system and compete head-on with the utility company.

23.   Caserta filed a countersuit, but both men eventually dropped their suits.

24.   Crawford said he believed Phillips would drop the suit only if he felt that the umpires would gain from the settlement.

25.   Davis dropped his suit, and the tubes were put in place.

26.   Greenberg said his clients would not drop the suit.

27.   He also said Ford tried to persuade the county prosecutor to reopen the case as a criminal investigation in an attempt to intimidate his client into dropping the suit.

28.   He later dropped the suit when the rest of her remains were returned.

29.   He dropped the suit last year after their mother, who lives in Boston, was seriously injured when struck by a van and remains partially paralyzed.

30.   He asserted the suit is being dropped because the judge demanded a stronger factual showing that could not be met.