1.   If the plaintiffs win, Simpson could be ordered to pay them millions in damages.

2.   A merger with RJR or another large tobacco company would vastly increase the amount tobacco plaintiffs could win in a settlement.

3.   Circuit Judge Amy Steele Donner in Miami ruled the plaintiff won the case by default.

4.   Even then, he wrote, the plaintiff can win by showing that the defendants could accomplish their goals some other way.

5.   If the plaintiffs win, a second phase of the trial would determine whether individual flight attendants suffered diseases caused by secondhand smoke.

6.   If the plaintiffs win, they can recover three times the damages they suffered.

7.   In two of the suits, in Indiana and Texas, the plaintiffs won.

8.   Indian plaintiffs have won each of five boarding school abuse trials held in the last two years, two in Saskatchewan and three in British Columbia.

9.   Late last month, the plaintiffs won an eleventh-hour stay of the decertification order, and they are appealing to the Supreme Court.