21.   The latest grand jury decision, coincidentally, came several hours after the lawsuit settlement was announced.

22.   The Supreme Court will try to untangle complicated legal rules about when individuals have the right to refuse the terms of a negotiated class-action lawsuit settlement.

23.   Those billboards are finally coming down under the lawsuit settlement.

24.   To be sure, tobacco stocks have tumbled in the past on concern about lawsuit settlements only to rebound.

25.   Tobacco stocks have tumbled in the past on concern about lawsuit settlements only to rebound.

26.   With huge stakes for the asbestos industry, the dispute has drawn notice because of its possible impact on tobacco industry efforts to adopt a global lawsuit settlement.

27.   But the union approved the lawsuit settlement last week.

28.   Mary Ann Packo, group president of Jupiter Media Metrix, said the sale was unrelated to the lawsuit settlement.

29.   Runners put the word out that people using their cars in staged crashes could make money through insurance payments and lawsuit settlements.

30.   The bill would limit the use of confidentiality agreements that corporations use to keep lawsuit settlements and business agreements secret.