Some state officials, including New York and New Jersey authorities, were involved in the talks, and environmental advocates have filed a related lawsuit in California.

But anti-nuclear advocates and some local officials recently filed suit in Superior Court to force the township to review the action, on the grounds that no environmental impact statement was required.

This year, several advocates for the homeless filed a suit to force the veterans agency to reach out to homeless veterans.

But advocates refused to give the boy to Thai officials this morning and filed a lawsuit.

It has set off a debate: women's advocates and others have filed lawsuits trying to stop or compromise Caller ID.

An advocate for Schourek could file a pretty convincing complaint that Schourek in 1992 was undermined more by lack of offense than by any of his own shortcomings.

In 1989, many of the same civil rights advocates who pressed the Horton case in the 1970's, including Wesley Horton, filed Sheff v. O'Neill.

Finally, in 1989, the advocates filed a motion alleging the city was in contempt of court, and out of that came yesterday's settlement.

They had cited cases in recent years in which anti-abortion advocates had filed for bankruptcy to avoid paying court fines and judgments owed as a result of illegal clinic protests.

But in recent years more and more parents and other advocates like Mr. Solas (whose own three children are not handicapped) are filing complaints.