That suit was in the pretrial stage when the settlement was reached.

Some are still winding through the pretrial stages, and others have been settled with the defendants pleading guilty in return for life sentences without parole.

The problem was time, he knew, or the lack of it in this critical pretrial stage.

The case is in pretrial stages in Bhopal.

The suit is still in a pretrial stage.

"The cases in the pretrial stage are stagnating, and we're going to have a bottleneck soon," he said.

The case, which has been largely overlooked, is still in the pretrial stage.

(The suit is currently in the pretrial stages and is not expected to be resolved for at least two years.)

Few ever go to trial, and many are dismissed at the pretrial stage because they are legally deficient.

The suit, still in the pretrial stage after six years, is pending in Federal court in Newark.