Mr. Siegel said his case was the first in which the plaintiffs include customers as well as business owners.

The plaintiffs include other steel companies and two trucking companies.

Other plaintiffs included construction workers, homemakers, truck drivers, mechanics, teachers, schoolchildren and farmers.

The plaintiffs include residents and business owners who have refused to sell their properties to Forest City.

The other plaintiffs included families who had been forced to spend the night in welfare offices.

The plaintiffs in New York include individual survivors as well as five victims' organizations.

The 24 plaintiffs in the suit include students and families.

The plaintiffs also included readers and distributors of The News.

The plaintiffs also included Wingfield to justify a fee award of $ 335 per hour.

The plaintiffs - representing a group of private agencies, doctors, health groups and states - include New York.