"In the Target lawsuit, the court said that anything that you can do online that you can also do in the store, that's the extent that the website must be accessible to people with disabilities.
What we do know, thanks to strategic use of transparency laws and targeted lawsuits, is that such shared objectives have lined the coffers of government contractors — Boeing, Dell, General Electric, IBM, Motorola, Raytheon and Sharp, to name a few.
The newspaper has repeatedly been the target of lawsuits including a case accusing its editors of revealing state secrets after a report claiming that Turkish intelligence was transporting arms to Syrian rebels under the guise of humanitarian aid.
Companies that are the target of lawsuits would stump up the bulk of the money, $90 billion.
There is the possibility that Hewlett-Packard will be the target of lawsuits.
Mr. DiIulio, who opened the White House office two weeks ago, has warned that it will be the target of lawsuits.
But the industry soon rescinded its self-imposed guideline on limiting advertising, saying it was concerned about being the target of lawsuits if a company failed to comply.
Mr. Reid said that there was a "very long list" of others that could be the target of lawsuits by Mr. McAlpine.
