The settlement with UBS relates to one of a group of cases filed by the FHFA.
One clear group of cases is what psychologist Paul Meehl referred to as "broken leg" cases.
This group of cases, National Cable and Telecom v. Gulf Power, No. 00-832, will be heard on Tuesday.
The suit will be retried as part of a group of cases scheduled to begin in January.
She told lawyers on Monday that she would also name a lead plaintiff in another group of cases, those involving pension funds.
Another group of cases more eagerly awaited by liberals relates to capital punishment, where there has been a gradual drift away from state executions in recent years.
One is to create a shared reference set, essentially a group of cases that your people all know well and can use for comparison.
"The trust has been completely looted by the first group of cases that took all the money, leaving nothing for everyone else," said Richard Scruggs of Pascagoula, Miss.
Finally, in another group of cases, the rule applied prospectively was merely a prophylactic one, designed by this Court to protect underlying rights already announced and applicable retroactively.
These households were selected from a purposive sample that allowed the study of a group of cases from different socioeconomic strata living in different geographical locations.
The lawsuits, which were filed yesterday in at least five states as well as Federal District Court in Brooklyn, are the second group of cases that the consumer coalition, representing groups from New York to Minnesota to California, has filed.
