1.   This gives the courts a useful power to separate the wheat from the chaff among the pending cases.

2.   Also Monday, Microsoft condemned Jackson for giving press interviews during and after the trial, saying that judges are required by law to avoid commenting on pending cases.

3.   Another pending case is an appeal by a commercial landlord in Anchorage who refuses on religious grounds to rent apartments to unmarried people who plan to live together.

4.   Asked about patients who might have suffered, he declined to reply, citing three pending civil cases against him.

5.   Attorneys for the Robertson family declined to comment because of the pending case.

6.   Because they do not talk about pending juvenile cases, Denton County officials declined Wednesday to comment about the hearing.

7.   Barbara Shea, director of human resources for the hotel, declined to discuss the pending case.

8.   Bernard Haldane officials declined to discuss pending cases.

9.   Blackley wound up facing a prison sentence, which Smaltz hopes will turn him into a prosecution witness in the pending case against his former boss.

10.   A pending case challenging the constitutionality of the affirmative action program might make the issue of a new election moot.