1.   And two officials with the firm were named as unindicted co-conspirators in a related criminal case.

2.   A federal appeals court ruling in a related case last June gave Microsoft the benefit of the doubt on this issue.

3.   Burns already is facing federal drug-trafficking and weapons charges in a related case.

4.   But lawyers in the related cases said they feared a transfer to a new federal district could reverse some critical decisions that have already been made in their favor.

5.   But Sogo dropped the suit the next year after Travelstead flew to Tokyo to talk to company executives, according to court documents in a related case.

6.   Detectives in Phoenix, Mesa and Casa Grande may work on related cases without knowing it.

7.   Following its ruling last week that narcotics checkpoints are unconstitutional, the court disposed of several related cases, denying review in all of them.

8.   Four related cases remain unsettled.

9.   He pointed to police investigations last month into the digging up and mutilation of corpses in Acornhoek, Northern Province and a regular stream of related cases.

10.   Her indictment comes just days after her friend and fellow scholar, Li Shaomin, was convicted of spying in a related case and ordered deported from the country.