Last year they won a settlement of a fraud suit against De Lorean.

By contrast, practitioners say, jurors' attitudes have not changed in cases of contract disputes or fraud suits, for example, that tend to pit one company against another.

Robert Greenberg and five other executives were the subject of five shareholder securities fraud suits filed in 1990 and 1991.

Neither party was happy, and somebody filed a fraud suit.

Peckham again represented the State against Tweed in 1876, when he won a $6 million verdict in a civil fraud suit.

The judge said it was the first time that a jury in New York State had decided a class-action fraud suit.

The company's claim appears to be frivolous, aimed at forcing the bondholders to drop their fraud suit, and it may work.

He said he would press that point when he refiles his fraud suit against the subsidiary specified by the appeals court.

Federal regulators filed a $1.1 billion civil racketeering and fraud suit against Keating.

A fraud suit has been filed against Silicon Graphics, and a company spokesman has said it is without merit.