21.  More time for extended hearings, said Sally Ann Fields, the deputy state attorney general handling the state case, would only further harm the students.

22.  Neither Warren nor the other primary lawyer, Trevor Headley, was involved in the state case.

23.  Scholarly treatises on torts, as well as state cases, similarly applied a justifiable reliance standard.

24.  Settlement talks in the two state cases are expected by negotiators to gain steam as the trial dates approach.

25.  Still, prosecutors have a number of strategies on their side, which have succeeded in other state cases.

26.  The Connor case, he said, is a warm-up for the state cases that start going to trial in July.

27.  The Department of Justice has guidelines that federal prosecutors must follow when weighing a state case.

28.  The Gore campaign can file an appeal of its state case to the Florida Supreme Court and then, if necessary, to the US Supreme Court.

29.  The Justice Department has not said whether it will play any role in the state case.

30.  The next state case scheduled for trial is set for jury selection Tuesday in Minnesota, where the attorney general opposes the national proposal.