1.   An agreement was struck this week during a lengthy settlement conference in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, according to the parties involved.

2.   And if they go to trial, the most likely forum will be a federal courtroom in Uniondale, N.Y., where most of the suits have been filed.

3.   Because cameras are not allowed in federal courtrooms, however, there would have been no gavel-to-gavel coverage as in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial.

4.   Barnes is on trial in a federal courtroom in Miami, charged with forcing or enticing women to cross state lines to engage in prostitution.

5.   A condom confrontation is taking place in a federal courtroom in Newark in an emotionally charged dispute over the exquisite architecture of the prophylactic.

6.   A generation of public interest lawyers has learned that a federal courtroom is not a shortcut to social justice.

7.   But an important legal contest involving basketball, and potentially other professional sports as well, has been unfolding in federal courtrooms in New York City.

8.   But federal prosecutors say it was her words, not their deeds, that brought Ms. Shabazz into the federal courtroom on Wednesday and might put her in prison.

9.   But in a federal courtroom here, an elderly Rwandan clergyman is fighting accusations that he helped massacre members of his own congregation.

10.   But now, a proposal in Congress would allow cameras in federal courtrooms if the sitting judge approves it, overruling a blanket ban in effect for years.