Civil suits like these are common in the wake of a criminal antitrust investigation, class-action lawyers said.

The class-action lawyers who filed the cases took the opposite tack.

Lower courts ruled against class-action lawyers in two recent decisions.

In recent months, class-action lawyers have tried to broker a settlement of all the outstanding cases.

Contrary to many class-action lawyers, currency cannot address every wrong.

Still, legal experts say Microsoft will surely challenge any attempt by class-action lawyers to build a case on the findings of fact alone.

American class-action lawyers are demanding up to $20 billion, more than 10 times what the companies have proposed.

The class-action lawyers said they were preparing a separate suit in the cotton market.

Within weeks of filing the complaint, the class-action lawyers agreed to settle the case.

But the class-action lawyers are circling, and the stocks keep falling.