1.   As long as the fee requests are not far above the industry average, managements feel well within their rights to ask for more.

2.   But while the tobacco companies had agreed not to argue against fee requests from Texas, Florida and Mississippi lawyers, they bitterly opposed Coughlin.

3.   He called the fee request exorbitant and said the settlement was unfair and inadequate to consumers.

4.   If the fee request is approved, Canadian music lovers will have a loophole.

5.   Murr is still seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from the state for his role in the lawsuit, while Cornyn has opposed the fee request.

6.   Some items on the fee request are likely to draw scrutiny if that standard is applied.

7.   The industry agreed not to oppose the fee request, whatever it is.

8.   McGeoch and his personal assistant released declarations Tuesday stating that he had no knowledge of the fee request and that it did not come from SOCOG.