31.   Product liability lawsuits follow growing interest in consumer rights.

32.   Perhaps most important, Bush supports limits on damages in product liability lawsuits and on fees for trial lawyers and opposes federal anti-tobacco litigation.

33.   RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp. Chief Executive Steven Goldstone said the tobacco industry might consider settling liability lawsuits if the terms were right.

34.   So it is puzzling to find governments as plaintiffs in product liability lawsuits.

35.   That is welcome news for a company that has been prone to product recalls, liability lawsuits and a weak drug pipeline.

36.   The announcement is expected to further rattle gunmakers, who earlier this month learned they will be the target of a massive Boston liability lawsuit.

37.   The decision is not binding on other courts, including the one in San Diego County where eBay faces the other liability lawsuit.

38.   The dispute involved questions about when a ship owner can file a product liability lawsuit seeking payment for damage from a defective boat.

39.   The focus of that campaign, a bill to impose the first nationwide limits on liability lawsuits, is scheduled for a Senate vote in the next few days.

40.   The latches have been the subject of dozens of product liability lawsuits in recent years.