31.   Fired employees will get severance packages and accrued benefits, said company spokesman Mickey Clerc.

32.   In recent weeks, scores of companies and at least six aid agencies have been raided by people threatening violence unless they are paid compensation for fired employees.

33.   Michael Jackson is being sued for sex discrimination by a fired employee.

34.   Other fired Saints employees whose contracts are being honored have supplied financial reports to Benson, some on a weekly basis, club spokesman Greg Bensel said.

35.   Rumors followed, for example, that the image was planted by a disgruntled or soon-to-be fired employee, she said.

36.   The company did not identify the fired employees.

37.   The three fired employees were not among them, the source said.

38.   The union first fought to forestall the layoffs, then demanded that Hyundai take back the fired employees.

39.   Attorney Steven Cochran showed the jury tabloid newspaper headlines and cancelled checks from reporters to the fired employees to show the plaintiffs were not wrongfully terminated.

40.   Michael Ring, who represents the fired employees, told the jury that Jackson secretly bought eavesdropping and bugging devices from a security consultant in Mexico.