11.  In a third case, an employee hurt her back when the seat height fell abruptly.

12.  In a third case, he said that Sharif engineered government policy for profit.

13.  In a third case, the high court splits on two steps that affect the pay of federal judges.

14.  In the third case, the same bank, College Savings Bank, sued the Florida board for patent infringement.

15.  In the third case, a teen-age girl who staff members kept accusing of having drugs underwent a strip search and urine test, Merchant said.

16.  It is the third case brought in roughly a year that has involved accusations of sexual misconduct against an athletic coach or instructor in Westchester County.

17.  It was the third case of anthrax in letters outside the United States.

18.  She was angry and upset, he said, but had spoken with her son, who hopes the third criminal case against Geoghan will go forward.

19.  The case, an appeal by Alaska, was the third case that the court has accepted in recent months on approaches to dealing with sex offenders.

20.  The court did not rule on the third case.