The federal civil lawsuit followed a settlement that a number of state governments reached with cigarette makers in 1998.

But lawsuits would quickly follow, opponents of the repeal have vowed.

An expensive lawsuit followed the refusal of the municipality, for which the work had been done, to pay the bill.

It is not clear how many of those lawsuits followed restatements.

A lawsuit has followed each study and forced another.

People here are up in arms; and many lawsuits will follow.

Other lawsuits followed but in 2006 a German lawsuit was withdrawn.

Lawyers for the neighborhood group said other lawsuits might follow.

Anyway the lawsuit had a very important social significance, and from then on women's inheritance problem followed her practice.

Many lawsuits by diverse offended parties would follow in later years.