31.   The Hawaii lawsuit was filed under a U.S. law that allows human rights victims to sue if a U.S. court has jurisdiction over the defendant.

32.   The measure also would allow victims to sue for misdemeanor as well as felony domestic violence.

33.   The Supreme Court confronts crucial questions of federal versus state authority in a case that asks whether rape victims can sue their attackers in federal court.

34.   The Supreme Court today threw out a law that let rape victims sue their attackers in federal court, saying Congress wrongly trampled on an area of state authority.

35.   The victims are suing the Aryan Nations and founder Richard Butler.

36.   This comes after the Supreme Court on Monday struck down a key provision of the law that let rape victims sue their attackers in federal court.

37.   A landmark trial in which AIDS victims are suing the Romanian health ministry for negligence was transferred to another town Thursday because of what it called excessive media coverge.

38.   It also allows victims to sue their employees or school heads for damages.