41.   Eight months had passed since the incident that prompted the allegations occurred, and Lewis had not decided whether to proceed to trial or drop the case.

42.   Eight months later, it is unclear what prompted the Justice Depart ment to drop its case.

43.   Fifty-six cases were dropped, mainly because inmates refused to talk when questioned, Flateau said.

44.   Finally, the Justice Department could choose simply to drop the case entirely.

45.   Given that hurdle, the state dropped the case on Tuesday.

46.   Harvard countersued, and the company eventually dropped its case and renamed itself Powered.com.

47.   Gomez and his mother say that the Tampa police told them it would be too expensive to extradite the priest from another state, so they dropped the case.

48.   He learns that the Department of Justice has dropped its case against a man who developed a way to encrypt e-mail.

49.   He said he only learned it was a violation of the DOC rules well over a year after he dropped the case.

50.   He said he will ask the prosecutors to drop the case.